Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Emo U?

Nowadays emo styles of music, outfit, and looks has been very common to the new generations. Mostly to the young people or groups that you can see everywhere in Davao's streets. Maybe this is the new trend. I was actually confused what does it mean to be an emo and where it came from? So that's why I made a little research.

Some bands have started playing music as punk rock that was described as melodic and depressing hardcore. That was it! The keyword is "depressing or something depressed". If you were to analyze there styles most "emo looks" seem uneasy and depressed. Those people were somewhat looking for freedom and comfort. Depressed maybe because out of money, out of respect or even out of love. I've seen this groups of emos most of the time walking around in the streets, so I was thinking that they were affected by the fare hike that was implemented recently. Also affected to the various increase of prices,services, of different items or of basic needs. So I think for them it's better to become an emo to temporarily escape the reality of the situation and at the same time to show to the people and to the leaders their protest on what was happening to them and to the economy in general.Most of the time they are rebellious to the disrespects of the people around them or in the worst case it is because of a family related problem. And lastly the reason why "Emos" are emo maybe because of relationship problems. It's just hard to move on and live a new day. So definitely people we tend to seek for an outlet. That's why emo mode is one of the solutions.

Emo is not necessarily an insult, nor is emo music always bad. So linguistically, what does this make the word emo? Originally it could be thought of as more of a genre of music and simply left at that, but with the evolution of the term it has grown to explore many new facets.

  • Emo is use as a noun - (a person, place, thing even if you can or can't touch it), such as
    "you're an emo"

  • Emo could be used as a adverb - (describes a verb) as in "he did an emo dance" or "an emo song".

  • Emo is used as an adjective - (describes a noun), as in "emo hair".
But there were no enough evidence that shows where did emo comes from. So still I was wondering where did that word came from. Until such time I saw a little clue. Since before, I suspected that besides human there were other living creatures that were engaged to such trend. So until such time I saw this picture...

Eureka!It a bird...it's a plane...No it's an "EMO COW"!?!... I suddenly think of a possible reason why they were EMO. So I came out to a conclusion that they were protesting to the large numbers of cows that was forced to produce milk as much as they can or canned and named "cornbeefs". Cornbeefs has been here long ago before the prices has rapidly increases. That's why it is to them the emo was born.

Indeed if I were a cow I maybe one of the EMO cows...

"Why should I care? They are gonna kill me anyhow."emooooooo!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks to you! my thoughts are clear now regarding to questions attached to the emos. and also to the cow! nice haircut. pero kabalo ko nga sa likod anang iyang buhok iyang mata naay eye liner.

ice9web said...

I first heard of EMO kay sa seat mate ko noon night shift way back last year pa around August... kasi he is so Emo mode... parati un status message niya sa "skype" then I ask him was that "Emotional"? and he said "yes" bale malungkot or depressed
then wala na ako nag comment sa kanya baka maya ...(^_^) yun lang po!

nga pala sikata anang kabaw oi! kang kinsa kaha nah kabalo gyud siya mu-EMO ai!

Darlyn said...

humans and even animals had different coping mechanism during their stress period.. meron nag eemo meron din nagrrock n roll..

but sitwasyon ng Pilipinas mapapaemo ka tlga.

keep updating:)

RoNald said...

hahah.murag ok pud mag rock n' roll ang baka ah.

@jigs cguro naa sila eyeliner bitaw na itom kay mao man na ila style pirmi. unta ayos lang ilang kinabuhi.

@ice kaila man cguro ka ana na kalabaw.murag familiar sa imoha ah.heheh

Anonymous said...

Ang kalabaw cguro nag pauso ang emo.:-) Cguro ang uban style2x lng nila ang emo kay mau man daw uso. Pero emo for me dili lng trend and fashion, everybody could be emotional kung naa problems. Tapos according sa net, emo daw mostly commit suicide dahil sa too emotional lagi..grabe na pud na! hahahhaa, they should value life. yun lng..hehhee



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