Nobody wants to get old. Unfortunately I have reached the ripe old age of 23 and, already, I can feel its effect. Namely, there is a lot of new music out there that I just don’t get.
Not because I can’t, but because I just don’t want to. I am, of course, talking about emo music. Emo music is what people in the business refer to as their “bread and butter.” I, however, refer to it as what it should be called — “Wuss-core.”
I am not, however, quick to judge. I have felt some of the same fire growing up as a Goth club kid since I was 14 years old. I remember a lot of snickers and pointing, but hey, I looked damn good. At least all the Goth music I listened too had some backbone to it. If somebody mocked me, I’d at least threaten to set them on fire instead of not doing anything about it.
I used to have a friend that argued that there was no difference between Goths and emo kids. At first this scared me, but then I realized that my friend was a huge Coldplay and Blur fan so I stopped worrying.
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