Your experiences with the Emo scene

I was really into the emo scene when I was younger. Still am now. It’s still alive and if anything becoming a bit more popular. I would always see some people in the whole style even after the supposed die out of the emo scene.

Back in middle school and early high school I was more into it, I liked some of the music and was going through more of the angst and sadness of it. Clothing wise though I wish I wore more emo related clothing. Back in middle school we had to wear uniforms so I couldn’t express myself that much, but when I was out I usually wore more dark clothing and tried not to wear much colors, keeping my hair long helped also. I never did the makeup or jewelry though.

If anything I was more emo emotionally wise then physically if that makes sense lol.


I just discovered this also so I’m gonna be jamming out to some 2000s teen shit for awhile XD

(btw stuff like this is considered “real emo music” apparently.) 

Well I'm glad Emo died out years ago now, it's one aspect I don't like about 2000s culture. Personally, neither me or none of my frineds were into the Emo scene as we were only just kids when Emo was at its peak around 2004-2010 although I do remember some of my older sisters high schools friends being maybe a little Emo but not really. Although come to think of it, even as late as the 2011-2012 Summer I was at this programme and I remember some of the kids were defiently wearing some of those clothes and had longer hair, although most of those kids were from a different high school to me and I think there would be a lot of emos there. By Late 2013, It was completely gone so there's not much effect it had on my teen years - thank god.

I never was really into "emo" music as a kid, although I was a fan of quite a few rock styled songs in the mid-late 00's, I don't think many of them would be classified as "emo".

It was more of a style rather than a genre of music to me as a kid, I remember watching nigahiga's video "How to be Emo" in 2nd grade, which kind of helped shape how I perceived emo people.



My younger sister really likes the genre though, so I've been exposed to it a lot more the last few years.

I identified it more as a style as well. At the time, the overall "Emo" look was the first thing that came to mind whenever I thought of the word "Emo". 


That's fair enough. I was never able to get into Fall Out Boy, to be honest. "Thanks for the Memories" is alright, I guess, but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it or anything. 

It's interesting that you should say that, because that's exactly what my experience of being in High School was like. People in my year group (as well as the Class of 2016 and 2018) also liked a lot of different genres and enjoyed listening to bands such as the Foo Fighters, Green Day, Blink-182 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. You could play "All The Small Things" in class and you'd get a pretty good reaction out of the other kids. 

Whereas, the kids in the classes of 2019-2022 only listened to EDM and trap artists, such as Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande and Post Malone. I have personally NEVER heard anyone born after the year 2000 play or even admit to liking a rock song, not once. During the lunch breaks, there was a group of kids from the Class of 2021 that sat not far from my group of friends and they would only ever play songs such as "All the Stars" and "Rockstar". A childhood friend of mine who went to another high school also stated the exact same thing happened at his school; the kids in the lower grades only ever listened to current Top-40 music and nothing else.

That's actually partly the reason why I used to believe people born in 2001 were the start of Generation Z. Their taste in music was so different from my own cohort's and the other year groups. Admittedly, when it comes to overall music preferences, I do think there does seem to be some sort of generational change between people around our age and people born from 2001/2002 onwards. I'm not going to lament it as being indicative of the fact that Generation Z starts in the Early 2000s. However, I definitely believe there is a noticeable difference in terms of overall music tastes. 

Yep. It's strange, because I was never like that when I was 13/14 and neither were any of the other kids in my year group.

It must be different in Australia then because when I was a freshman in high school, people born in late 1998-mid-1999 were seniors, and all they listened to was mainly hip-hop, trap, and EDM. Their music taste was pretty much the same as ours. None of them really listened to rock or any other music genre with the expection of very few.

My sister born in late 1996 has a similar music taste to me. She doesn't listen to rock a lot. I think she mainly listened to it when she was a teenager, but her music playlist is mostly trap and hip-hop as well. 

I know I'm generalizing, but I've noticed that most people born since 1996 seem to really be into trap and hip-hop music.

I'm not really surprised, to be honest. Hip-hop just seems to be so much more ingrained into US pop culture. I remember we were all talking about Mid 2000s hip-hop in one of Mario's livestreams and I had never even heard of half the songs. 


I think it would vary from location to location. That's interesting to hear though, because I can't say that I have ever known someone from Years 7-10 to have just as much of a diverse taste in music.