[NewMusic] EMO-ers beware!

[Brady Sharp]

It's incredible!  Most mob mentality happens around gender, skin
color, ethnicity, sexual preference, or where income and livelihood is
involved (unions vs. scabs, etc).

These folks like Emo music and they dress a little more strangely than
the norm, but probably not as strange as some of the punks and
metalheads that are opposing them.  From the article description, I
guess it's a class thing, like the typical EMOer is upper-class, goes
to private schools, etc. are unaware of the hardships that the
metalheads face (that last clause is absurd in itself!), and are what
they would call "sissies"...

... it sounds like a result of the latino machismo that you hear about
down there, even though I'm just about as comfortable mentioning
"Latino Machismo" as I am "backwards Southerner", "Stupid Redneck", or
any other sweeping generality.

Maybe it'll grow into a huge movement encompassing many genres of
music.  I could see a protest movement building up from oppression and
people claiming they are "born Emo-ers!".  Maybe we should ban
together.  If you played typical newmusic next to Emo, Metal, or
anything else and asked society as a whole to actively regard them and
rank them, I'm sure we'd probably be at the bottom of the totem pole
and one of the first ones to be repressed.  Right now it just means
getting smaller gigs and less money, but maybe it'll mean getting your
ass kicked in the future!

I mean, Ornette got beat up for his music, but he was CREATING the
music.  Soon, mere FANS of the likes of Ornette might feel the same
wrath!

Again, it's scary and absurd all at once!

Brady


On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Praemedia <praemedia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Been happening all over Mexico for a few weeks now.
>  Has even spread to several other South American
>  countries. The 800 mob was just the biggest single
>  event. It has been happening daily for a while now.
>  Haven't been able to keep my eyes of it. President of
>  Mexico has even gotten involved and several other
>  heads of state have also made comments about it. Train
>  wreck of mob mentality. lovely world we live in.
>
>  lance
>
>
>
>  --- Brady Sharp <bradysharp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Not exactly newmusic-related, but I was struck by
>  > the headline:
>  >
>  > Mobs in Mexico Attack Fans of Emo Music
>  >
>  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89265941&ft=1&f=1001
>  >
>  > Something like 800 people mobbed a handful of people
>  > sitting in a
>  > square in a town north of Mexico City, at the behest
>  > of a local DJ.
>
>
>
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