[LMB] AKICOTL: goth, emo and jrock

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Becca Price" <becca_price at yahoo.com>


> I've just been informed (rather scornfully) that my daughter
> isn't goth, but that her personal style is more accurately
> called jrock. Another friend told me that she sometimes comes
> across as emo, but that friend had never heard of jrock, and so

It's tied into the popularity of anime and things Japanese, it stands for 
Japanese rock.  It's extremely high energy and tends to be aimed at a 
youthful audience, or at least, in the US the audience for it tends to not 
be the boomer grayhaired generation.  It's at anime conventions, but doesn't 
get attention apparently by mainstream US music, and certainly not the likes 
of (blech) Clear Channel and the other monopoly media majors.

> couldn't really comment. I suspect that, here in the staid
> midwest of the USA, the distinction passes unnoticed, but it may
> be something that means more on the west coast.
>
> I did some google image searching, and yeah, I can sorta see the
> difference, but I can't articulate it. Can someone who is more
> in touch with teen culture tell me what the difference is
> between goth, emo and jrock? (I can't really tell the difference

I think it's mostly the perspective of the audience.  Goths go for black and 
white and grim; J-rock tend to be upbeat and positive and energetic and 
involved and colorful, particularly with hair colors that may be bright 
purple, orange, etc.  A goth with bright orange hair?  Yeah, sure. Not.

I have no clue in bucket what "emo" is.

> between all the hundreds of varieties of metal music either,
> although Wikipedia assures me that it is there.)
>
> thank you to whoever can help this poor middleaged mystified
> mama