Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture
 

Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture

by Trevor Kelley, Leslie Simon


What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining counterculture movement of the '00s. EVERYBODY HURTS is a reference book for emo, tracing its angsty roots all the way from Shakespeare to Holden Caufield to today's most popular bands.

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Dakota B
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i liked it...it was strange, but yet entertaining... haha

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pescatello
  • Rated 1 stars

Read this book to gain some insight into the emo demographic. Boy was i disappointed. All it does is describe what emo kids are doing. The chapters are Fashion, Film, Literature, Music, TV, etc. So what you have are two emo kids describing what they do in their life. What they like. They don't provide any insight into why something is emo just whether it is or isn't

A few examples:

1. They name an iPod as being emo, saying:
An mp3 by any other name would not be as...

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