I am a Smiths fan and so are my best friends. Ya a lot of what River Ripper sais is full of truth but people like to jump into categories, people want to have something to be apart of and be under a label, in this case it is emo. I know plenty of kids who like doing the vintage tees of ebay, the thick black framed glasses, the dickies, the converse shoes, the tight sweaters, and the messenger pack who know plenty of music and like it all. In fact I know one such kid that has all of the said clothing and hates 'emo' as a genre. Bitching about comformity may help a little, but in the end there are always going to be posers. The best thing to do is get along with them and do your own thing, ya I advocate being yourself too, but not to the point where it just pisses people off, ya I could care less about pissing certain people off but it is their place to do what they are going to do, whether it is be taoist and be nothing but themselves, or to get that emo stuff when they heard Dashboard on the radio.