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MUSIC AND ITS STEREOTYPES
EMO, DARK, GOTHIC LOLITA, METAL : A JOURNEY IN THE WORLD OF THE OBVIOUS
The world is various, we all know... and this is a blessing of course. Among all the differences that characterize people, we also find some labels that come, most of the time, from the music they listen to.
We have a lot of examples, kinds of music and styles to list, but among the current ones and the most popular there is certainly the world of emo, dark and the gothic lolitas, the last ones more in Japan.
There's also the metal universe but that's definitely larger in order to explore in few lines.
Why the title says "a journey into the world of the obvious"? Because it comes to a point where we wonder what is real and concrete in these modes.
Nobody criticize them of course... but over a hundred people who say they think and live in a certain way, how many of them really do it that way?
What is authentic and what is superficial and exterior in attitudes like these? And to be in a certain way necessarily means to exclude everything else?
Labels are often exaggerated and even a bit "bad"... anyone, more or less, throughout their life have teased an emo, because they are seen as people who are always sad, that they may don't like to stay with friends and socialize with people.
I have noticed since some time that what dark people represented first, I always mean teasing of course, it's now replaced by emo people... whose style is take
n by the movement began in the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s.
The difference between the listed styles is that emo and dark are accompanied by a definite kind of music, gothic lolita style instead is a fashion that only concerns one type of clothing that was born in Japan in the late 90s, in use between teenagers and even young women and men.
Then, as said before, the world is really different, and everyone is free to follow the fashion and the style they want without being criticized or have thousands of fingers pointed towards them when they walk on the street.
The most important thing is to be real and authentic, and don't use fiction to attract the attention of the other people, it could also be in this way but there wouldn't longer exist the true "expression", to externalise personal thoughts and own ideas about what’s around us.
My Selene-Roberta
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