‘Metro’ Looking For Hip 17-Year-Old, Just-Dumped-By-His-Girlfriend Demographic

There’s an article about emo — the music and the fasion! — in today’s Metro. I really can’t improve on its unintentional comedy, so let’s just take a few choice bits:

If punk is riotous and rock is rebellious, then emo is raucous and romantic. Emo music, short for emotional, is a blend of melancholy lyrics over a post-punk beat — basically, mix the staccato screams of punk with morose musings, and you have some idea why bands like Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World still top the charts.

Emo is androgynous.

Most notable are the excruciatingly tight jeans. Just as the punks have S&M straps and ravers have oversized phat pants, emo scenesters have diminutive denim. The look leaves nothing to the imagination, as guys often squeeze into girl’s jeans, usually sans underwear.

“Lots of girls think the look is sexy,” remarks [Ryan] Albanese.

Add a facial piercing, a button-up striped shirt several sizes too small over an ironic graphic tee, a wallet chain, horn-rimmed nerdy glasses, argyle socks, Converse All-Star Low Tops and you have bona-fide emo style. Of course, the looks are varied and individual, with the more creative types scouring thrift stores, and the more capitalist types spending money on brands such as Tripp and Salvage.

Hey, guys? You forgot blogs on Xanga, white belts and cutting yourself! Geeze.

Emo demo: Tight jeans and messy hair define this music-inspired look [Metro]
Drawing by Ikiroid, licensed via Creative Commons