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The "Awkward Social Sun" CD and particularly the hairstyle on its cover are a reference to emo culture. The name could also be a reference to the band Broken Social Scene.
From: underlings
Posted on: 00:22, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
NOTE: This vote is only for the part in bold.
Arguments for:
- The names are similar, and though the band itself doesn't claim to be emo, the BC may be toying with the idea that that they could be percieved as such.
- In response to the arguments against: that the easter egg is a reference to emo culture is not completely explicit, though it is settled upon in the wiki. Not everyone with one-sided bangs will call themselves emo, though they may consider themselves to be socially awkward -- and many of them are the fanbase fore Broken Social Scene, which could by some definitions be called emo. The use of such a loosely defined term as "emo" here may just not be a good idea. Is it necessarily a reference to BSS? No, but the readership should know that it may be one.
- It's a cd. This may just be because emo is also a type of music. Or it may be because Broken Social Scene is a band.
- The names are pretty similar. It's concievable that the BC, upon creation of the phrase awkward social sun, made the mental connection with Broken Social Scene -- which, all else aside, is a pretty emo name by some accounts (a weak argument, admittedly, but it's there...). And a weaker one yet: maybe the Brothers Chaps don't know anything about Broken Social Scene besides that they think of it as "emo."
- This email comes from Canada. BSS also comes from Canada.
- Awkward Social Sun is a very random thing to say, even for TBC.
- BSS has a song titled: "Looks just like the sun."
Arguments against:
- The band doesn't claim to be emo, so there is no connection between the two other than the name
- The name isn't even very similar.
Additional comments:
- re: against #1; doesn't claiming to be emo make you un-cool and non-emo? in which case, im completely emo.
- <irony>Yeah, just like denying being a spy only confirms it, because that's exactly what one of them would do.</irony>
- re: against #2, the name is very similar phonetically, as the last two words are essentially identical, and the first word is a poetic synonym.
- At ArgFor5: How is this even relevant? If the email went exactly the same, except the sender was from Mexico, would that make the (alleged) reference any more there?
- Um. No. Not a bit. But it is from Canada which does make the reference... more there.
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