Come on people we starting to sound like all the old fogies the old hippies railed against........Come, on people take the piss out of hippies/Goths/Grungers/Metalheads etc in EXACTLY the same way u guys are taking the piss out of the scene kids. We're all part of an alternative scene, and kids especially like a group to belong to while they're finding out who they are.....and in your teens you have a social choice of the mainstream or the alternative.... I think these guys today are so lucky........When i was at high school in the late 90s, it was a bit of a deadwater for an alternative scene and I waas trying on the Goth thing and bein the only 'goth' in the whole place.......I would have LOVED a subculture in the school of freaks and weirdos that I could fit into, as I NEVER fit in with the mainstream, trendy types, even when I tried..... I was a total weirdo and got bullied to buggery, but these days in schools their is a wonderful, vibrant alternative scene of kids brought together by their fashionsand musical tastes, and a feeling of 'apartness' from the mainstream crowd......If any of them get picked on for being different they now have the security of a great friendship base of like minded people. So you may take the piss, but diversity is wonderful, and anyone in any alternative culture, whatever it is, whether its hippy, punk, emo or goth, should be in my opinion reading from the same script and supporting the wonderful diversity of all that is alternative.
Maybe you were on the wrong school because the 90's had at least as much of a vibrant alternative scene as today. Diversity can be wonderful, but it clearly can bring forth an annoying group as well. I think many people put down a certain subculture for the wrong reasons, but too be honest nowadays alternative scene (and especially the emo kids) are irritating me as well. It just contains so much lame elements. I don't put those kids down though, since they don't bother me directly.
^ damnnnn a ten poster told your ass! Its true your prejudice of something you dont understand makes it seem like a scene kid fucked your g/f or b/f. I know first hand how they act I was there from the start of that scene and I saw it get taken over by shitty music and greed. Before the kids started taking fashion into account it was an amazing scene full of friends. I never dressed like they did, I was there for the music. I met alot of the bands of that scene did many interviews and took many pictures. The general consensus among those type of kids very elitest, but to say that you werent in some way shape form or fashion when you were a kid is ridiculous. They are looking for a way to fit in sure they are going to extreme and some will snap out some wont but let them do it and leave them the fuck alone. Most are already generally picked on thru out their lives a good reason to go into a counter culture scene. I see them doing no harm to you so why the hate. Also its better then the culture of ghetto ass pieces of shit. Most of this music will actually instill value in a person there is a lot of it about respecting yourself and your friends, not cheating on girl friends, the world being a wonderful place... These are generally depressed kids and now instead of turning to marilyn manson they are turning to indie music and emo music which does not create little monsters. like mainstream rap and some metal heads. GET OFF THEIR NUTS OP! GET A LIFE ALSO IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO RANT ABOUT ON THE INTERNET THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU Edit: OP Seriously get with the program you are part of the neo hippie movement just as dumb as the scene kid movement. It is my opinion that anyone who now claims to be a hippie probably has no idea of the values that were instilled back then and has no idea of the culture it created. Your attack on a group of people is just like the attack on the hippies back then. Especially since your s/n has possibly IMO the worst subculture involved Ravers. dont know if you loook around you when you do go to raves. Those people are more cliqueish and dress way stupider then any scene kid I have ever seen. Not only that but their entire style of culture is completely fueled by drugs. Not to mention it is a completely consumerist culture and everything you outlined up there can be applied to candy kids. In fact your s/n to begin with is a quandary think about it hippies, who did not like materialism and urged people to return to the earth. Or ravers, who go out and buy the stupidest out fits to dance in (no offense anyone) tons of glowsticks (completely made of chemicals) Paint their faces in uv sensitive paint (thick amounts of it) wear wigs of different coloured hair or dye their hair diff colours. Buy tons of diff coloured bead bracelets to wear on their arms. which one seems like consumerism you tell me. SEE A TREND HERE YOU IDIOT
oh relayer you know I have no problems with you. In fact I like your posts but it seems your in a trolling mood today <3
Crap. They're generally normal kids, don't get fooled by the stereotype or their image. And why does Marilyn Manson and metal create more monsters than emo music? By the way, the emo scene doesn't seem to be less of a consumerist culture than most others.
I am? LSD and marijuana comes to mind when It think of hippies. steve jobs comes to mind sounds like a hippie fest to me which one of us cares? lol oh I do
Bullshit, bullshit, oh yeah that's bullshit. It may look like roses and sunshine from the outside but they're just the same as anyone else. They're not freaks and weirdos either. The scene scene (ha..) here is totally made up of the 'cooler' kids... Oh snap. Sounds like it just got personal. Also, that whole second paragraph basically showed how you're just as judgemental of something you don't know about as you say the OP is. That's what I thought when I read the post. :cheers2:
this clearly doesn't apply to you, but there are people out there who have personalities all their own and they don't need to follow any "scene," whether it is the one you endorse or otherwise.
You surely did not fully read my post... I never said it was not in fact I said the scene got taken over by greed and fashion... Leading to the idea that I do think it is a consumerist culture. I was simply explaining that his screen name is a oxymoron a hippie cannot be a raver because they simply do not coincide with each other. Hippies are against big establishment and corporatism. Because marilyn manson and metal have suggestively darker lyrics duhh! It doesnt take two brain cells to figure that one out genius. If you listen to emo music most of it is wining about a woman who left, cheated on, or walked all over them. As for you "hippie" mcraver if all that comes to mind is lsd and marijuana when you think of hippies. You have some learning to do. A 24 year old boy it seems. Neo hippie movement would be anyone now days with the gall to call themselves a hippie. Which judging by your screen name is you. Unfortunately you can do nothing but make moot points on a subject you dont even seem to understand. If this were a debate you would have had your ass handed to you. That is beyond the point though. I have yet to see you give some reason as to why your so much better than this scene you demoralize and call stupid. So please enlighten me. Jaitaiyai How do I not know of the rave culture. Since I have been attending raves from the time I was 14 on. I go for the music I do not go for the culture of people I see there as where I am the people are as I said fueled by drugs. Even at the rave I went to last saturday spring love in Austin Texas it was a silly situation.
Everyone's bashing the styles I think look really cute. Well, except the emo look that was also described in the scene look. But I love kandi kid ravers...they're so bright and adorable. And I fucking love kandi bracelets.
So... your a consumerist AND a hypocrite? you sure have spent a lot of time at raves for someone who doesn't like them.