Have you ever heard of being “Scene”? It refers to subcultures and movements, mostly centered on the alternative music scene. “Scenesters” are people “on the scene.” I think for most of them, it has just as much to do with the look and fashion as it does with the music. These people are usually elitists with extreme superiority complexes.
In my random exploration of the Internet, I came across this handy website called wikiHow, which is a “is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual.” (Go there – I promise it will be hours of fun.) So I’m exploring wikiHow and what do I come across but an article titled “How to Be a Scene Kid.” I couldn’t believe how accurate it was (and also, how many “Scenesters” I knew.) So I give you the article.
Special Notes:
- Pay special attention to the part about how scene kids take pictures of themselves. Then reference your own Facebook page and notice any of your friends who have several photo albums of themselves and their friends, looking “scene.”
- Just to make it clear, I am NOT scene. At all. Not even a little bit. And honestly, I think people who do the things mentioned below are, well, let’s just say that I re-wrote this sentence many times and I’ll simply say that they are not my particular favorites.
- Question: Does anyone know anyone who is “scene” that is not between the ages of about 13 to 22? I see a lot of scenesters around, but they tend to be on the youthful side, very angry at their dads and often with nothing to do on a Tuesday afternoon. Are there 40 year-old scenesters out there? 50 year olds?
How to Be a Scene Kid
from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
While a contemporary term for hipster or bohemian and other insiders of art related movements, scene kids are also associated with listening to screamo, techno, punk rock, indie rock, and hip hop, or other forms of unconventional music. If you want to be a scene kid, here are some suggestions to help you along your way…(Click title to read entire article.)
*Title quote from UrbanDictionary.com.
May 21, 2008 at 1:12 am |
LMAO…here in France, they’re called FASHION;
pull-in underwear and those horrific vans flats being a must. Key word here is MONEY so get out the €’s mom and dad…
hé ash don’t you have anything better to write about????
May 21, 2008 at 9:44 am |
once you reach a certain age you can’t be scene anymore, instead you become a hipster (once known as mod)
by this point the hipster pupae are no longer allowed to buy band t-shirts from hot topic, and instead must procure them from shows. band shirts in general are looked down upon, especially if they are new, so the budding hipster must begin buying clothes at thrift stores, or, if really wealthy, vintage clothing stores which buy all their stock from thrift stores and then jack up the price 1000%. the hair also becomes a little more conservative, and a lot of the music is dropped entirely in favor of NPR.
the skinny jeans stay until the hipster has consumed enough PBR, which will cause the gut to protrude to the point where chinos are the only acceptable pant. the hipster now enters the aging hipster bracket. at this point the hair recedes, the rock is phased out for jazz or alt-country, and the aging hipster moves to soho/the villiage or san fran to spawn.
May 22, 2008 at 11:00 pm |
At first I thought you were writing about grunge, then emo, then goth, oh heck as auntie taz said earlier, you’re really talking about fashion.
Or are you talking about Web 2.0, if you substitute all the fashion styles and being “Scene” with social networking sites and constantly changing your Myspace profile songs, Facebook status updates, and Digg likes?
June 18, 2008 at 12:40 pm |
“scene” it all before, when it was mod, then punk, then alternative, then grunge, . . . ah, the endless recycling of teen angst.