11.19.2007

"Fauxmo"

From Jinks of We.

A marriage of "faux" and "emo," to describe (I assume recursively) the process of genuinely wanting to imitate emo creativity in order to approach real emo, which hopes to approach genuine emotion, and so on.

Great word. Describes all music since. . . oh lord. Too long now.

1 comment:

David said...

Oh dear lord.

Well, over in the comments at comic book resources

I saw this quote:
“I define emo as a goth I can kick the shit out of.”
Now now, there’s no reason to commit physical harm to an emo kid.
Just say something depressing and they’ll do it for you


Perhaps an older term for what you're describing would be verisilimitude?

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