lol!! Of course you've seen Urban emo kids. Skateboards and bangs bound to fall into their eyes while skating....
Oh they are cute! Reminds me of my husband when he was a kid. Giving the city streets hell and raising a fist at no loitering and no skateboarding signs.
They come from all backgrounds. Old skateboarders, "new wavers", and "half assed goths", are your generation's emo. I may be old, but lots of the subculture kids talk to me still, and as in my youth, you all have the same music collection at home whether you admit it or not. Haven't met one punk that didn't actually have their hidden Morrissey collection. Or rockabilly for that matter....
That is why the barbs betwixt those crowds were always in jest and a bit of a joke in the past. Emo's have punk and rockabilly collections..Punks have emo and rockabilly collections. Rockabilly's have emo and punk collections. That's why their very public insult trading has always been a bit of a joke.
They always share the same venues for that reason. One night:screamo band. Next night: grind core. Night after that: indie rock band....Next night: Industrial band.....
All in the same mixed bag.....
Depression effects lots of teenagers. Emo kids do not have the monopoly on it,
they just look like it.
Of the people I know that actually committed suicide, not one of them were heavily involved in a subculture at all, quite frankly. Most of them that died, did so in college, or sometime in their 30's, and were more scholars than identifiably branded in a pop subculture.
(Aside from my friend that was a renaissance festival guy)