I'm not a Scene kid and I don't listen to the music either, but this is a question I've always wanted to ask and was wondering and wanted all your view on it. I only use Scene kid because almost every person where I live, and go to my school is one, at least they proudly claim to be so I will use that term. Basically in short, at my school in both of my music classes I'm the only one that dresses normal, either looking professional, or hip hop, or gangsterish (what some people would describe it as), but rarely once in a while I would wear a very underground band shirt and they all would come to me and say "wtf is that!?" and would say I'm a poser because I don't wear any "cool, scene clothes or popular bands), but I don't listen to the radio, I only look for the underground, although I like a few mainstream songs. And because I am the only Asian there, they will make fun of me for playing guitar there, saying I'm nerdy etc, but I don't fit the stereotypical description, but I never argue back. Underground Metal is my favorite, and plan to play for it in the future, I've had a lot of training from my cousins (since most of them have played in an underground Metal band before in other countries). No offense, but I just can't seem to manage musically with them, they've never heard any of the bands I listen to, basically almost no one, only a rare few or from other countries, and my personality doesn't mix with them. I'm the serious, silent, powerful type, but when they act stupid-like or speak like it I can't seem to mix. But I don't make fun of them though or say anything bad. But it's humiliating, everyday in class I'm the only one serious to practice enough because I really love music, and it's a passion, and while everyone else is fooling around or acting stupid they will make fun of me saying I'm not a real rocker because I'm Asian or whatever, or not a rocker because I don't wear the clothes.
The money that I earn, or get, is saved towards getting musical equipment instead of clothes. I plan to have a lot of effects for musical variation in the future. I practice at least usually 10 hours a day, if I can more at home. It's also hard to find people in my area or school who are as serious as I am, who would also want to play the same music as I do, they're for screamo, and I'm for underground Metal. I don't care about being famous, I just want to make music for people to enjoy, and something for me to look back to and enjoy my own music.
There's a talent show coming up in 3 months, and I'm practicing like crazy, I wanted to be on some of their teams, but they reject me, so I'll be doing a solo alone, as well as play a song I like.
But if I were to round this up, they mostly make fun of me because they say I'm too serious about practicing and making music, instead of being cool, and for not wearing "scene clothing."
So am I considered a musician at heart? Or do you think the outside matters? I can't seem to fit in with the other "scene rockers" at school. Only a few mature Metalheads (which there aren't many here).
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