Ok, first of all THANK YOU FOR THIS and yes, I added my initial comment before I read the whole piece🙃 but WOW, you captured a beautiful moment in time, one that truly can't be copy-pasted.
By the time I found emo and scene, I was in community college and it felt like such an important part of my young adult identity. FOB specifically was hugely influential on me. I was that girl that said "Take this to your grave" was my favorite album to prove I was a real fan. Going to shows, hiding a digital camera in your bra, pushing your way to the front of the stage only to get the wind knocked out of you from being pushed up against the gate by thousands of other screaming, sweating bodies. What a frickin TIME!
There's a book I read recently and can't recommend enough called Where Are Your Boys Tonight by Chris Payne. If you want to feel transported to emo's humble, DIY beginnings in New Jersey, you gotta read it. It's SO. GOOD!
I was a scene kid in middle and high school and I miss my purple tips on my hair, hot topic shirt and colorful bracelets 😠Thanks for dissecting it so well! I’m going to bust out my paramore cd and be nostalgic again lol
Ok, first of all THANK YOU FOR THIS and yes, I added my initial comment before I read the whole piece🙃 but WOW, you captured a beautiful moment in time, one that truly can't be copy-pasted.
By the time I found emo and scene, I was in community college and it felt like such an important part of my young adult identity. FOB specifically was hugely influential on me. I was that girl that said "Take this to your grave" was my favorite album to prove I was a real fan. Going to shows, hiding a digital camera in your bra, pushing your way to the front of the stage only to get the wind knocked out of you from being pushed up against the gate by thousands of other screaming, sweating bodies. What a frickin TIME!
There's a book I read recently and can't recommend enough called Where Are Your Boys Tonight by Chris Payne. If you want to feel transported to emo's humble, DIY beginnings in New Jersey, you gotta read it. It's SO. GOOD!
I can’t contain my excitement for this piece😆
I was a scene kid in middle and high school and I miss my purple tips on my hair, hot topic shirt and colorful bracelets 😠Thanks for dissecting it so well! I’m going to bust out my paramore cd and be nostalgic again lol
YESSS ME TOO!!! I can still smell my burned hair!!!