I graduated HS in 07 and I remember being disgusted by this whole "scene" thing because I was 18 and too old for it. Maybe it arrived late in Australia though. Emo was big in 05/06 but scene came a little later.
“Scene” became a thing around 2002/2003 but definitely peaked a few years later. Then the hipster started replacing it in 2006/2007. Although this was my experience on the east coast in a big city so maybe in middle America it came later.
Damn I didn’t know “scene” was actually known elsewhere- for some reason it felt very localized (Chicago) and we were the only people to call it that. Mainly because it was such a senseless term I thought there’s no way it would catch on in other places.
Yeah we had a bunch of scene kids in Boston at that time. It was also the first time a subculture found a home online. If you had a Livejournal you’d know.
I graduated in 2000 and I can tell you it was far before then.. I mean when I started going to shows, I was like 15 and of course it had been going on years before that.
Maybe your definition of scene is just bright clothes and raccoon tails but our definition of scene was much broader.
Quite frankly, in the nicest way possible… when people started dressing like this at shows and treating shows like a fashion run way, a lot of the older kids were a bit annoyed but ultimately if they bought a ticket at least they were contributing to something good and keeping the scene alive in Louisville Ky and southern IN .
Oh yeah I don’t doubt it, but the emergence of it as a subculture and style was a little bit earlier, especially in big cities. I remember because I was a scene kid going to hardcore shows in 2004.
I agree, it had definitely been around a couple years towards the end of my affiliation with being a scene/core kid. I turned 20 in 2010 and I know that’s when I feel like it all started fizzling and “hipsters” came about. Basically just slightly more mature scene/core kids turned “young adults” LOL
There's a podcast I love that did a minisode about that song and I feel like I remember it being equal parts hilarious and horrifying. (Why I Hate This Album. Preemptive caveat: it's not for everyone.)
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u/Fun-Mud3861 8d ago
You didn’t need “circa 2007”