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Scene has always been a closer approximation to "colorful emo" (as opposed to "wears only black emo") and nothing like a hipster. Maybe Scene is used differentl
by Nadya 8y ago
Scene has always been a closer approximation to "colorful emo" (as opposed to "wears only black emo") and nothing like a hipster. Maybe Scene is used differently in other regions?
Where I'm from it's basically "emo-style clothing but with colored hair and eccentric outfits". Just search for "scene hair" online to get an idea of the aesthetic. "Scene/emo" tends to be the description for a lot of scene or emo aesthetics and never "scene/hipster".
Tangent on the whole emo discussion, I recently heard of "Midwest Emo Revival" after the "popular" emo subculture kinda faded from the coasts. Makes me wonder how different other subcultures can become when the popularity shifts regions or the "underground scene" gains more popularity.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_revival
- existencebox 8y agore: my confusion between scene and emo/hipster, I think it was largely that scene was "just becoming a thing" as I was graduating highschool so while those who were "Down with the kids" knew the new patterns, I was 200% tuned out by then. The descriptions you give seem to contextually fit where I've heard it used since. Re: subculture shifts and underground revivals, don't even get me started. I have a personal fascination in how what "goth" is has changed _so drastically_ over the last 30 years, (The Cure, david lynch/oingo boingo, then the explosion into cybergoth/punk, overlap with death metal, branches off into classical) Someday I'd love to read on someone who has made a study over how these shifts occur and propagate, largely with an eye for how technology has changed this in a post-internet age.