thanks to my sister, this song is stuck to my head now….
nice music. not knowing much about this band, i just hope they are not gay.
it’s worrying how these so called ’emos’ are going gay-homo. guys falling in love with guys, and not to say the lesbians! could be worst! and they start young these people. and emos have been stereotyped as a suicidal lot.

so is it the songs which peer pressured these people to join in the in-group, it’s music and culture, even? or the song genre did no harm, but the sensationalisation of the media, MTV, concerts? does MTV play a part in this, anyway?

you know i never think about these things before, even though i listen to these songs, i never really thought of the influence or its culture. more of ‘so what’ attitude. i didn’t think it’s a harm listening to them songs. but when one of my students described himself as ’emo’, and knowing he’s vulnerable to the influences, it gets me to thinking. i wanted him to know, he can listen, but he does not have to comply all those influences, he doesn’t have to dress like them emos, he doesn’t have to talk like them. he just needs to be he. will he believe me?

presenting, Monsoon.

“……
Running through the monsoon
beyond the world
to the end of time
where the rain won’t hurt
fighting the storm
into the blue
and when i lose myself i think of you
together we’ll be running somewhere new
and nothing can hold me back from you
through the monsoon
just me and you
……”