Spotted last night in downtown Philadelphia: a vaguely punk-ish looking guy wearing a green hooded sweatshirt on the back of which he had written in big, black letters: “Death to Emo.”
So, have we entered the post-emo era?
Cultural anthropology
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I sure hope so.
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From what I can tell, there’s always been a lot of opposition to emo, particularly from rival subcultures. I can’t say we’re necessarily in the post-emo era, altho some die-hards might say any band anybody’s ever heard of or that existed after, say, 1995 (well before emo ever became popular) is a sell-out.
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Plus most of it just kinda, well, sucks.
Wah Wah Wah, my gf hates me my parents are divorced, wah wah wah. That’s not punk. What ever happened to “Beat on the brat with a baseball bat”, “God Save the Queen/the Fascist Regime/that made you a moron” or “Two little things that drive me insane/teenage women and free cocaine, yeah!” (I know there are Dwarves fans out there somewhere!).
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Let it be noted, however, that I do not myself engage in or condone the use of teenage women or cocaine(free or otherwise) or baseball bats on brats, nor do I consider the UK government to be a fascist regime.
A Thinking Reed 
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