After the police managed to prevent a young girl from committing suicide [news in Serbian only] and after they announced afterward that she was an “emo”, here’s what the media managed to find out about this subculture (backed by police findings):
It’s an organization communicating mainly over the internet.
It’s a sect.
It’s a secret society.
Most of its members fancy a suicide.
Members wear black or white clothes and try to look like a corpse.
“Emo” is short for “emotional”.
And worst of all: most famous emo music band is Tokio Hotel.
Of course, not a lot of these claims are true (possibly none of them), but that didn’t stop a significant number of newspapers from publishing them. And now they are putting me in a situation where I have to defend emo kids. Sigh.
You can’t see a lot of emos walking around in the street in Belgrade, but than again, you can’t see many punks, goths, metalheads, rappers or other similar subculture members either. The reason for this is partly because the economic situation doesn’t allow kids to afford various subculture accessories, but the main reason is that any kind of radical otherness attracts unwanted attention on the street – when it comes to clothing, Serbia is still very conservative. With young people, the most popular style is ‘girl/guy next door’ – it has been like that for a while now. Which is pity really, mostly because it’s boring, but also because it creates an atmosphere where being different is considered being bad. And then it leads to depression and then we all become emos.
Milan Stankovic, Serbian biggest emo star (also only Serbian emo star)
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malo preterujes…
nije bas tacno da se svi oblace isto i da metalci/pun kultura je nezastupljena…
neces videti tako obucene ljude na mainstream klubovima/splavovima
ali to je zato sto se generalno tamo pusta druga vrsta muzike
Mislio sam generalno, kad bazaš gradom retko kad spaziš nekog “uniformisanog” klinca metalca/punkera/emoa/hipstera/repera/štagod, a ne po klubovima.
HEY FIRST MILAN IS NOT GAY AND NOT EMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND WHY DO YOU WRITE SUCH MEAN THINGS? AL THOSE THINGS ARE NOT TRUE! LIARS!
Oh my god. Yeah, it’s a shame if someone tries to be different, nowadays, right? You people should think about your statements first. Milan is a young, good-looking man, who has definitely his own style. What’s wrong about that?
The music,singing and all of it was outstanding and should have won the Eurovision song contest.My wife and I considered this as something special as was Susan Boyle