[QUOTE=KittensInMicrowaves]I listen to them, but I also listen to probably 50 other metal bands, I am not a poser[/QUOTE]
Exactly. I don't consider someone who listens to Slipknot a poseur, but the idiots who think they are "goth" and "hardcore" for listening to them. On the other hand, I agree completely with the remarks made against them.

[QUOTE=Quest]In my point of view, posers are:

-People who simply download music, never buy any albums, and yet still claim to love a certain band.
[/QUOTE]Not really because I lack access to lots of bands due to distribution factors. So if I download some of their stuff and enjoy it, how can I not be a fan. Pull your head out of your a[b][i][/b][/i]ss please.

[QUOTE=Berner]Not really because I lack access to lots of bands due to distribution factors. So if I download some of their stuff and enjoy it, how can I not be a fan. Pull your head out of your a[b][i][/b][/i]ss please.[/QUOTE]

He's referring to the people who do have the means to buy the albums, but are too cheap/lazy.

I myself have ot download music to find new bands because at the moment, my budget is way too tight to go out and buy three new albums every weekend. Whenever I can, I do get the albums. That's what separates people like you and me from the retards in question.

[QUOTE=Quest].
-People who go to a concert of a band they've simply heard of off of MTV, but not actually know any of their songs.[/QUOTE]

Maybe they heard from a friend they were great and he/she wanted to check them out and what music does mtv play anyway?

in regard to the wrongful labelling of pop-punk as "punk" i've noticed a general imporvement, i don't get MTV but at least on much music whenever they refer to blink or GC it's always Pop-punk now, i've heard Avril refer to herself that way, and i saw GC say thier image isn't at all related to thier music, and people shouldn't call thier music punk or goth because they dress that way.

Simply, a poser is someone who claims to like something because it's "cool" to like

[QUOTE=InFlames.KsE]Simply, a poser is someone who claims to like something because it's "cool" to like[/QUOTE]

Best. Definition. Ever.

somehting you said reminded me of conservatives





[QUOTE=Steerpike]I think we've already covered that posers are people who want to fit into a particular scene because they think it will be convenient or beneficial for them. However, they don't possess the proper mindset, dedication, or beliefs to truly adopt the lifestyle of the scene, so they take every stereotype they can find, live up to it, and then pretend to know what they're talking about.

Posers are easy to spot because of their cliched arguments and stances, lack of substance backing their statements, stereotypical behaviour, and brash dismissal of anyone in the scene in question who calls them on their ignorance.

Once a poser has effectively made himself a pariah in the current scene, he scraps the act and picks up another one.

In life, everyone is either a leader of a follower. Posers are the worst kind of followers.[/QUOTE]

a poser to me is an east indian kid who thinks hes a black rapper

[QUOTE=Steerpike]Yeah, that's really more of an elitist than anything else.

By the way, Shattered_Future, I got the Celtic Frost thread up. Should be on page 2.[/QUOTE]

Saw that...you did a good job.
Sry bout not leaving feedback...only had time to glance at it before i had to leave.

Anyway, i kind of think an elitist and a poser are the same thing...they are both unyielding in their efforts to spread "good" music to people (which often isn't good music).

However, posers also try to appear to be the embodiment of a certain genre through clothing and music. So called "hardcore" kids with their many spiked/studded bracelets, pants with legs as wide as people's bodies, and colored hair are posers. They simply have no idea what is going on.

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]
However, posers also try to appear to be the embodiment of a certain genre through clothing and music. So called "hardcore" kids with their many spiked/studded bracelets, pants with legs as wide as people's bodies, and colored hair are posers. They simply have no idea what is going on.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, someone I knew for a long time that had always been a very nice, open-minded person music wise started doing that crap and I'm glad to say I no longer talk to them. I'm sorry, but none of that makes you "cool".

sonic youth - probably the best punk band that i've ever heard so far, i'm probably going to get flamed by this, because most people think that sonic youth is an indie/alternative band, but i do think that theyre punk because mainly of their lyrics,
like drinking jizm for example and beating cops to death, they dont talk about any of that "i hate my parents" type of **** or any of that "my boyfriend left me" avril stuff

[QUOTE=White Goodman]Yeah, someone I know for a long time that had always been a very nice, open-minded person music wise started doing that crap and I'm glad to say I no longer talk to them. I'm sorry, but none of that makes you "cool".[/QUOTE]

I used to be like that too...
Gradually, i got off of that stuff...it was REAAAALLLLY uncomfortable. Also, it didn't really do anything for me, cept make me really sweaty.

[QUOTE=Quest]In my point of view, posers are:

-People who simply download music, never buy any albums, and yet still claim to love a certain band.
[/QUOTE]


I totally disagree,man. I love a lot of bands and I've downloaded most or all of their albums. I buy their t-shirts and go to their shows, so what's wrong with downloading their music? Bands hardly get any money off of record sales anyway.

[QUOTE=laura_au]sonic youth - probably the best punk band that i've ever heard so far, i'm probably going to get flamed by this, because most people think that sonic youth is an indie/alternative band, but i do think that theyre punk because mainly of their lyrics,
like drinking jizm for example and beating cops to death, they dont talk about any of that "i hate my parents" type of **** or any of that "my boyfriend left me" avril stuff[/QUOTE]

You need a new definition of punk. Go listen to Bad Religion or The Clash, and don't come back until you do.

Have a nice day. :)

lmao, I have a new prime example of a poser. I was just in a rock chatroom, and the question was "Which rock band are you addicted to at the moment" and then I saw one girl's answer "Maroon 5". I don't think I have to say anything more.

My definition of female posers...

Little girls i can easily subdue and sodomize

[QUOTE=White Goodman]lmao, I have a new prime example of a poser. I was just in a rock chatroom, and the question was "Which rock band are you addicted to at the moment" and then I saw one girl's answer "Maroon 5". I don't think I have to say anything more.[/QUOTE]

Maroon 5... aren't they a pop-rock band?

[QUOTE=Steerpike]Maroon 5... aren't they a pop-rock band?[/QUOTE]

IMO, I just don't think you could use them in the same sentence as the word "rock".

[QUOTE=Steerpike]Maroon 5... aren't they a pop-rock band?[/QUOTE]

I never really thought of them as "rock".

Well, i think of them as "crap", but they seem to be more of an alternative band.

Rock i consider to be Creed, Pearl Jam, Tool, and the like.

Not having heard their material, I couldn't say.

[QUOTE=Steerpike]Not having heard their material, I couldn't say.[/QUOTE]

Well, living in the state that is North Carolina, every radio station within 100 miles of me feels compelled to play them every 3 minutes.

[QUOTE=high_voltage_acdc]To me the closest thing to a poser are the kids who go to Hot Topic every week, listen to Slipknot and Dimmu and CoF and then think they're hella metal. But then again, who am I to judge them?[/QUOTE]


None of the posers at my school have heard of Dimmu. The only for sure one I know of is a kid who wears a COB shirt and has only heard needled 24/7.

likeing somethign to try and be cool or fit in or liking somethign with no knowledge of them.

Misguided potential.

There's a lot of definitions of a poser.
To me, an example would be if you wear a Hatebreed T shirt because the band is popular at your school even though you've never listened to them before.
I consider one of my friends to be a poser 'cause he acts like he's a hardcore metalhead and he doesn't even know more mainstream bands like Cradle Of Filth. In fact, he had never heard of Slayer before until he met me. He had never even heard [B]OF[/B] them.

[QUOTE]lmao, I have a new prime example of a poser. I was just in a rock chatroom, and the question was "Which rock band are you addicted to at the moment" and then I saw one girl's answer "Maroon 5". I don't think I have to say anything more.[/QUOTE]
That's not poserific considering it was a rock chat room. If it had been in a metal one, then sure, but...

A poser to me is a person who advertises something, And dosent know one thing about it.

Someone who pretends to be what they are not .

posers are rich punks who still op shop and and gangsta rappers who live in small towns. also asian's and white people who think there black
just a couple of obvious examples