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Conforming and posers
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By:
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theMinority
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Mood:
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other
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01/16/2013 18:05:42
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Music:
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AFI
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Getting myself into AFI! I like em'. I've listened to a lot of Misfit I've never heard, and I think they're a liiiitle chaotic for me. Still in that expansion mood!
Sorry I'm blogging a lot, I guess I have a lot to say this week.
So, Mason didn't answer me. Oh well. I think he took me a little too seriously when I said I wanted a date. I never said a relationship! I was a little depressed, but It's all good now :)
Anyways, I was talking to this girl i know who claims to be into rock. When I cut my hair short last year and started displaying that I was into punk, all of a sudden SHE started changing. She tells me she likes 'american idiot' and the mainstream Green Day like she's some long time rocker because she KNOWS how big of a Green Day fan I am. What, is she trying to impress me? Does she think I'm cool or something. I'm far from it. And the only music she knows is the mainstream Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, and she says her friend likes screamo and so she's into a few screamo songs and she's waiting for a new screamo band to come out. People like this REALLY piss me off. Just the way she acts, like she's this rocker, but she doesn't expand her musical horizons at ALL. So I'm trying to convince her to A) STOP listening to the radio and start going on YouTube and looking at new rock n' roll to find where she feels she fits, B) Stop trying to be like other people and just be herself C)Ask her elders what THEY used to listen to.
But she just doesn't get it! I'm like, DUDE, you can't just put on a black sweatjacket, a cheap plastic studded belt and call yourself a rocker! As for me, I got bullied and rejected, so I toughened up and fit right in, and I love finding new things to listen to and seeing what I like, and learning about other types of rock. She doesn't do this. She just takes the songs from the radio and the really popular songs everyone knows and tries to fit in or look cool or whatever. I personally feel bad that she feels like she has to do this. But, hey.
Another thing I wanted to talk about is; Conformity. What's wrong with it? Just today my uncle was like, "Why are you all dressed up with your makeup on? You don't have to be punk 24/7, you're not going anywhere." Then he tells me that I'm trying to conform to a certain image.
But he doesn't understand. I don't dress the way I do to impress anyone or look good, I WANT to. I couldn't wear normal clothing if I TRIED. It just feels so boring and not right. I wear what I wear because It's me and I want to. I couldn't give two shits WHAT people think. I'm comftorable in half plaid half black skinny jeans, studded combat boots, and whatever shirt I feel like wearing with whatever belts I wanna wear. Plus, I like rock. I'm not ignorant to other music, when I say I hate a certain type, it's because I know what it sounds like and I don't like it. But what's wrong with conforming to punk rock, or at all??
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