WTF is scene???

Green.Lady · 10-10-2007, 05:16 PM

Sorry if this seems pointless.

Okay. Scene kids. I hear about them often. But I still don't understand what they are. I ask around and no one knows. This has been bothering me for quite a while so I'd LOVE an explanation. Anybody?

Graveyard.Crow · 10-10-2007, 05:27 PM

Same here. Seriously, some people use it as a compliment and some as an insult. What is it? and what scene is it exactly

Godslayer Jillian · 10-10-2007, 05:32 PM

There's two ways to use the word scene:
There's scene and there's the scene.
The scene is basically a specific music community in one's local area. There's many scenes. There's a raver scene, there's a emo/punk (yah right) scene, and there's a sortagothic/darkwave scene, in my city. If you're very much into the scene, you eventually begin to see recurring people; I haven't, though - not a real big fan of clubs, even gothic ones.
But the one you're referring to is just scene. There's always trend fluctuations that pretend to be genuinely alternative. Scene kids are the people that ride these waves. Just like most normal and mainstream teens would follow the current fad, scene kids try to incorporate themselves to whichever music scene is trendy in their pseudo-underground society. They follow fads; what makes them so annoying is that as these fads portray themselves as 'alternative' and 'countercultural' and 'noncomformist', scene kids believe they're way better than the mainstream when there's really a parallel line to it. Did that make any sense?

Underwater Ophelia · 10-10-2007, 05:35 PM

What you're probably thinking of is a style of dress. It's (when exaggerated) characterized by skinny jeans, bright colours, repeating patterns, often of something like a dinosaur, a racecar, or a robot, something like that, it's got the "scene" hair cut, and they often have bright eye makeup, but rarely lipstick.

Personally, I really really REALLY like dressing scene. Unless what I just described isn't scene, in which case, I don't know what scene is.

Graveyard.Crow · 10-10-2007, 06:48 PM

That's what I meant personally.

raggedyanne · 10-10-2007, 06:55 PM

I agree with the above description. At first I thought it looked cool. The haircut is pretty looking. But since the "counterculture" scene kids have decided that scene is the new sk8r, it's getting pretty old. My school is full of them and all I can do is laugh at them for being such lemmings.

Senor_Sadomachism · 10-10-2007, 06:56 PM

I've always been waiting for an explanation.

Green.Lady · 10-10-2007, 07:30 PM

So it's basically just a style? Or is there music?

Wormboy · 10-10-2007, 07:54 PM

Jillian described it best

Godslayer Jillian · 10-10-2007, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Green.Lady

So it's basically just a style? Or is there music?

When talking of scene kids, it's pretty much style; their music is whatever they're all currently listening to.

Graveyard.Crow · 10-10-2007, 08:13 PM

Well...whatever makes them happy. I have scene friends (from what they look like, as it has been described) and I didn't notice them being any worst of dumber than anyone else.
Maybe just MY friends.

killer_asian_Dax · 10-10-2007, 08:55 PM

I personally dig the "scene" style. Luckily it's died out in my neck of the woods. Still see a few of them floating around, but mostly everyone here is back to emo.

I especially LOVE the scene hair, but what I love even more is what my old hair dresser called it- a "fashion mullet"

KontanKarite · 10-11-2007, 02:13 AM

Fashion Mullet!

Bwahahahaha

drewsilla · 10-11-2007, 03:00 AM

Around here, all the scene kids are the emos. I have a few scene kids as friends, we seem to blend well. I just wouldn't have the hair.

delicti · 10-11-2007, 07:17 AM

Jillian nailed it.

I have heard it used as a compliment from one hipster to another, but I don't interact with hipsters on principle, and as such have no need to learn their dialect.

cradle · 10-11-2007, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

There's two ways to use the word scene:
There's scene and there's the scene.
The scene is basically a specific music community in one's local area. There's many scenes. There's a raver scene, there's a emo/punk (yah right) scene, and there's a sortagothic/darkwave scene, in my city. If you're very much into the scene, you eventually begin to see recurring people; I haven't, though - not a real big fan of clubs, even gothic ones.
But the one you're referring to is just scene. There's always trend fluctuations that pretend to be genuinely alternative. Scene kids are the people that ride these waves. Just like most normal and mainstream teens would follow the current fad, scene kids try to incorporate themselves to whichever music scene is trendy in their pseudo-underground society. They follow fads; what makes them so annoying is that as these fads portray themselves as 'alternative' and 'countercultural' and 'noncomformist', scene kids believe they're way better than the mainstream when there's really a parallel line to it. Did that make any sense?

Nailed it.
But here in Georgia, scene kids like to talk about their hair and thier new monroe piercing more than the music. It's all fashion for them.

delicti · 10-11-2007, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by cradle

But here in Georgia, scene kids like to talk about their hair and thier new monroe piercing more than the music. It's all fashion for them.

Oh, it's the same up here as well.

I personally don't think it's got as much to do with fashion, as much as it is a deep-seated desire to fit in. Most scene kid fashion is pretty wretched, after all.

the-broken-harlequin · 10-11-2007, 01:03 PM

Emos who aren't as mopey.

††BlackRose†† · 10-11-2007, 01:15 PM

Scene apparetly just means something along the lines of "oh really?" and "oh my god".

How do I know this?

Well when your sister is all gangster, you learn. LOL.

Valrys · 10-11-2007, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by the-broken-harlequin

Emos who aren't as mopey.

Anyone need it dumbing down any more?

ForgetThisLostLenore · 10-12-2007, 05:31 PM

I've noticed most of the ones at my school are slightly balding. They change their hair color so often, it's making their hair fall out.

Underwater Ophelia · 10-12-2007, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ForgetThisLostLenore

I've noticed most of the ones at my school are slightly balding. They change their hair color so often, it's making their hair fall out.

Ugh, that happened to me. It SUCKS.

KontanKarite · 10-12-2007, 05:36 PM

If they had any sense about them at all, they would know that the punks did it best when it came to hair color. Bleach your hair blond and use kool-aid products.

ForgetThisLostLenore · 10-12-2007, 05:53 PM

I love kool-aid! I'm naturally blonde (though not blonde at the moment) and when I get bored I tint my hair with kool-aid and conditioner. I last did the ends blue. They ended up green after a couple days, but it still looked cool.