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1 INTRODUCTION

In some way, music affects everyone. In some way, music affects everyone. Whether it is, an old man's favorite song on the radio, a student's escape from reality or a form of entertainment, music brings everyone together. Music definitely affects the lifestyles of the people in many different ways. Music creates style. It causes people to act, talk, and dress the way they do. One style music that surely make an issue in this modern day of technology is emo or emocore music. The term emo originated in the 1980s to describe a genre of music stemming from the hardcore punk music scene in Washington, D.C. Early bands labeled emo in this scene include Rites of Spring, Embrace, and Fugazi. The term emo as a music genre has become broader and broader with time, and now is loosely understood to mean rock music with emotionally-based lyrics. The term is loosely defined because its definition is still the subject of debate. Emo now refers to a person's fashion, personality, as well as the music genre.( 2008 Free- Emo Free Essay, Term Paper and Book Report ) when referring to a person's personality and attitude, most definitions of emo hold that an emo person is candid about their emotions, sensitive, shy, and often quiet. Emo personality is also often connected with poetry, which addresses confusion, depression, loneliness, and anger, all resulting from the world's inability to understand the author( 2008 Free Essays - Emo Free Essay, Term Paper and Book Report ). some definitions of emo hold that typical emo persons are likely to inflict self-injury, most often by means of cutting.

In the years since emo music's rise in popularity, emo have attracted severe criticism.. The term emo itself is sometimes used as an example to suggest that the target is overly emotional. Critics have gone so far to contend that the emo music are likely to cause youth to commit suicide.

With this, the researcher hope to discover how much emo music influences people, especially high school and college students. It is very interesting to learn the real effect/s music has toward youth. Music impacts everyone in someway(positive or negative), but it impacts students the most.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The criticism to emo music shows that this kind of music has a bad content that might affect the emotional, intellectual and spiritual growth of the youth. Even churches are discouraging emo music for it has immoral message. After this study, the researcher aims to answer the question: what is/are the real effect/s of emo music toward he youth?

1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY Emo music has attracted severe criticism as it gains popularity to the youth. Even the government of Russia tried to implement a law discouraging emo music, they find it hard to give the real and precise definition and effects of emo music. With this study, clarifications and additional details about the real effect/s of emo music towards the youth may help not only in giving it a clear definition but also in giving the people a hint whether to discourage emo music and subcultures or not.

1.4 SCOPE AND LIMITAIONS

This study was conducted from December 1, 2008 to December 14, 2008 to find out the real effect/s of emo music towards the youth. Twenty participants (male and female) from different schools in Manila were surveyed. The target age range is from thirteen (13) to twenty one (21) years old. All participants are currently residing in Manila. The participants are given a twenty-items survey questionnaire which will reflect their awareness about the topic, the way they handle their problems, and the effects of music to them.

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PART III METHODOLOGY

3.1 PARTICIPANTS The survey was passed out to completely random students from different schools in Manila so there was no imbalance of the results. The participants are currently studying in the following schools: Ramon Magsaysay High School, Claro M. Recto High School, Victorino Mapa High School, National Teachers University, CCM, and Regardless of the ratio between boys and girls, the population that used in the study is equal to 100%.

3.2 INSTRUMENTS Informations about the topic were gathered from psychology books, magazines and technical sources. The researcher used a twenty items surveys with some questions about gender, age, the awareness about the topic, their present problems and their idea about emo music. Most of the question are answerable by yes or no to have a more precise results. 3.3 DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE Tallies were made for each item of the questionnaire. Then, results were were converted to percentage and shown in table.

4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

As shown in table 1, Emo music got the highest score which implies that most of the students are aware the topic and fond of listening to Emo music. Though the participants are facing major problems as shown in Table 2, Table 3 shows that 70 percent of the participants don't chose to commit suicide to escape their problem. Take note that 45% (the highest mark) of the participants are listening to Emo music. Referring to the given data, participants don't allow any minor thing like emo music to interfere in their life. Emo music simply makes its listener feel better in times of depression. According to the survey, 65% of the participants prefer to listen to Emo music when they're depressed and 55% of them said that emo music helps them in solving their problem. This can only mean that the problematic listeners can adopt to the music because they already experienced that kind of conflict. It seems that they are using emo music as an outlet to release the negative mood inside of them. 90% of the panel believe that God do exists and 55% of them said that Emo music are good in general. With this information, we can say that ,though, emo music sometimes have unpleasant messages, most of the people in

conservative countries like the Philippines do agree that emo is not that bad and requires listener's critical thinking. 5. SUMMARY / CONLUSION / RECOMMENDATION 5.1 SUMMARY OF THE STUDY It is a primary object of the research study to provide informations or details to reveal the true effect/s of emocore music has toward youth.

In this study, twenty students from different schools in Manila were surveyed using a questionnaire that tackles about the awareness of the students about emo music. on complete random manner. The age of each students involved in the survey lies between 12 to 21 years. The participants were asked several questions related to the topic. The results of the survey were plotted and analyzed. 5.2 CONCLUSIONS The data gathered from this study show that most of the students are aware about emo music and subcultures. Forty percent (40%) of the entire population of the students reveal that it gives a positive effects on them. It implies that emo music contribute a lot in making a decision on whether to commit suicide or not to escape the problems. This mean that emo music helps in solving most of the student's major problems and student prefer to listen to emo music when they are depressed. One of the item tells that the percentage of having a problematic person to commit suicide because of emo music is very small. This details prove that emo music has a positive effects toward youth. 5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS In tackling this study, the future researchers must give a little attention to the ratio between boys and girls. It is better to make the number of boys and girls the same to show if gender contributes in this study. The future researchers may also increase the population of their respondents to have a more precise results.

II. RELATED LITERATURE Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Emo Study There are two popular forms of dress associated with emo. The first is basically what came out of the 90s Indies emo scene, and has connections to Indies rock. It includes more vintage and thrift store clothing, typically for a well-worn look. Some of the clothing leans toward khaki colors. T-shirts are typically of smaller sizes and with random prints, often images from the 1980s.

The other popular style of dress focuses on darker colors. Commonly seen elements include dark colored hair (often dyed either black or an unnatural dark hue), males wearing pants tailored for females, lip, eyebrow and libretos piercings, and dark make-up on males and females (most notably black eyeliner).

Converse All-Star style shoes are common amongst both styles of dress.

Though the original emo scenes were not exclusionary, the modern emo scene has developed into a gay friendly scene. Though its unclear whether its related to the diminished macho elements of emo music or the gay friendly nature of the scene, it has become commonplace for detractors to use emo in combination with popular gay slurs, such as emo fag.

While use of the term emo to describe the dress and attitudes of some fans of emo music, it should be noted that use of emo as a musical genre and emo as a slang term are largely separate. Emo as a musical genre long pre-dated the use of emo as a slang term, while most modern bands labeled emo are done so unwillingly, and largely because the share some of the fashion trends

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There is also a common stereotype that associates self harm with emo, though there is no evidence of any correlation between the two. The link may stem from the association of negative emotions with the emo subculture.

The term emo has also been used in recent years on the Internet as a form of insult, especially towards those who appear emotionally unstable on line, or those who rant about issues in their lives to people in public forums or chat rooms. Phrases such as dont cry emo kid are used frequently as a quick brush-off of somebody they deem as an emo kid, or even just in passing if somebody seems disgruntled thus the term emo is very loose, and is usually applied very liberally to different situations. Posted by Weather Man at 9:51 AM Labels: Johnny Ray's Quiet Time

Development of emo In my article several months ago, "The nihilism and self-destructiveness of Generation X," I quoted the lyrics of several Gen-X popular songs, and contrasted them with the music of previous decades -- the romantic escapist music of the Great Depression and World War II eras, the sweet "live, love, laugh and be happy" post-war love ballads, and the protest music of the Awakening era Boomers. As Gen-X music took hold in the late 1970s and 1980s, the protest music morphed into counterculture "punk rock" music, with dark lyrics mostly rejecting Boomer values, and often emphasizing themes of violence, isolation,

disillusionment and death. This was especially apparent in the sub-genre death rock. Emo, which originally stood for "emotive hardcore," began in the 1980s as a punk rock sub-genre that stressed emotions and rejected violence. As it's grown, it's adopted the same punk rock themes of isolation, disillusionment and death, but in punk those themes are turned outward in the form of violence, while in emo they're turned inward. Web Log - May, 2008

Emo Fans March on London's 'Daily Mail' The Bryant Park Project, May 30, 2008 - On Saturday, fans of emo the shortened term for "emotional hardcore," a sort of Goth-influenced rock will march from London's Hyde Park to the offices of the Daily Mail. The fans say the newspaper has been unfairly attacking emo music, which it refers to as a "suicide cult." The protest is once raising the age-old debate over the impact of art, in this case a form of music, on life in this case a form of humans known as teenagers. Last year a teenager in Kent, England, hanged herself from her bunk bed. Her parents said emo music may have played a big role in her suicide. According to her mother, the 13-year-old started listening to an emo band, My Chemical Romance, two weeks before to her death. That's when the newspaper likened the music and its listeners to a suicide cult, prompting the fans to speak out. "The people who listen are very intelligent," says James McMahon of the British music magazine NME, "and they're just sick of being misrepresented."

McMahon thinks fans have a strong case against the Daily Mail, pointing out that rock has traditionally addressed depression and dark themes and that people have been committing suicide long before My Chemical Romance.