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From: "Michael McCartney" <michaelmccartney@yahoo.com>>  Drew asked:
>
> Help an old man out. What are "emo theatrics" and what is so 
> off-putting about them?
>
>
>  Robert replied:
>
> A good example might be during the ending of Butch's Best Thing You 
> Never Had where Mr. Walker screams and wails while pulling out all 
> the strings on his guitar and throwing himself on the floor of the 
> stage.  All while the band continues to play and the girls in the 
> crowd hold their cell phones up and weep.
>
>
>  Michael wonders:
>
>  Isn't this the same thing that's been going on at rock shows for 
> decades?  Just substitute Kodak Instamatic cameras instead of cell 
> phones?   How does this make it Emo?   Teenage girls crying at the 
> foot of the stage sounds like The Beatles and Elvis to me.  All over 
> the stage sounds like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or The Who.   I 
> even witnessed that stage action at IPO last year.

Add in an overall sense -- from both performer and audience -- of 
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!  I'm so SENSITIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!  No one 
UNDERSTANDS meeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!  Everything sucks and it's ALL 
YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!" and hey presto, you got emo.

S