Article: COLUMN: Cheer up, emo kid, life isn't that bad

Joel Klein
University Wire
04-18-2005
(OSU Daily Barometer) (U-WIRE) CORVALLIS, Ore. -- According to the Urban Dictionary, the music/lifestyle known as emo is "like Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter." This assessment gets at the essence of true emo culture -- angst-filled suburbanite teenagers, tight pants, scarves in the summer, power chords, even tighter pants and a hefty dose of ostentatious self-pity and self-defeating consumerism.

Of course, no one knows exactly what emo refers to. Some stake claim to emo as "emotional hardcore" or "emo-core," a genus of music that evolved from punk and began in Washington, D.C., with the band Rites of Spring. Others allege that ...

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