Really? You say the "hardcore screamo" wave has gone, but you fail to realise that its always been there, on the underground bubbling a way without a care in the world. You know much in the way the "real dubstep" carries on whilst the "watered down filth" takes the credit! You also seem to speak with authority that all fans of "hardcore screamo" dress the same, without realising screamo is a sub-sub genre of hardcore punk and has nothing to do with facial piercings, sleeve tattoos and flesh tunnels/plugs.knell wrote:the people that i meet that latch on to this stuff still have tunnel plugs in their ears, sleeve tattoos and numerous facial piercings, so they can't get a job, and the hardcore screamo wave is gone, so they need a new scene to latch on to.
"hardcore" screamo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdEIrBCMZGI
not hardcore, nor screamo at all (the sort of people I know you're referring to)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fGqmMaeyQo
So what if the people you meet that latch on to this look like that and come from the previous music scenes they do. In a way, that is the most pretentious thing. Not being able to accept newcomers to what you no doubt perceive as "your" scene. They might like it and stick around, or they might fuck off and move on to something else. If you're letting it affect you, then you're not fully about the music. If you were, things like this wouldn't even register.
I still have tunnels, tattoos and piercings. I listen to bands like La Dispute/Raein and producers like Kryptic Minds and The Bug and I've managed to hold down numerous jobs over the past few years, so what is your point exactly?
Latching on to generalisations based on misconceptions is fun, isn't it?
