Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later
Black and pink clothes, young men with eyeliner and long dyed bangs, plaid sneakers, badge collections and jokes about the gender of the soloist of Tokio Hotel — if you caught all this fashion and at least once wanted to "return your 2007", then take a look at how emo musicians and just teenagers of that time they look now.
(39 photos in total)
Musicians
Joel and Benji Madden, the band Good Charlotte. Then: eyeliner. Now: goatee beards.
Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy. Then: red strands. Now: hair gel.
Brandon Urie, the band Panic! At the Disco. Then: bangs. Now: haircut.
Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional band. Then: long sideburns. Now: low-cut T-shirts.
William Beckett, The Academy Is. Then: striped scarf. Now: a fringed shawl.
Andrew McMahon, bands Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate. Then: dyed hair. Now: knitted sweaters.
Patrick Stamp, Fall Out Boy band. Then: long sideburns. Now: fedora hats.
Ryan Cabrera. Then: porcupine. Now: some animal with a better hairstyle.
Tyson Ritter, band All-American Rejects. T-shirts have been replaced with suits, but the musician still looks good.
Bert McCracken, the band The Used. Then: long hair. Now: yellow nail polish.
Davey Havok, AFI band.
Forrest Kline, Hellogoodbie band. Then: glasses. Now: the glasses are prettier.
Ben Gibbard, Death Cab For Cutie band. Then: striped T-shirts. Now: tight pants.
Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, band From First To Last. Nothing has changed, only the hair began to cover the face less.
Pierre Bouvier, Simple Plan group. Then: dark hair roots. Now: gray roots.
Quinn Allman, the band The Used. Then: dyed bangs. Now: bald.
Kenny Vasoli, The Starting Line.
Adam Lazzara, Taking back Sunday.
Jordan Pandik, New Found Glory. No green hair, no tunnels in the ears.
Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance band.
Ordinary teenagers
"My girlfriend and I met for the first time and now. We regret the time when we were emo."
"I became a firefighter. If I had met myself from the future eight years ago and found out that I would cut my hair and work in a fire station, I wouldn't have believed it."
"The first photo shows the year 2005, I am 18 years old. On the second — 2015, I am a loving father and husband. That's how much everything can change in 10 years."
Teenage rebellion and adult harmony.
"Emo. Goth. Emo. Emo. Marketing consultant".
"I am 25 years old. I got married, I have a beautiful child of four years old, and I am the manager of the store next door — at 15 I was sure that I would never do all this."
"Having stopped being emo, I learned to program and now I work in a cool startup. It was just an episode of my life, but it was cool. However, then I did a lot of stupid things, especially because of drugs."
"Then I studied to be a designer, listened to Brand New, Death Cab and Blink-182. Now I'm a designer, I still listen to Brand New, Death Cab and Blink-182, and my first child was born."
"In the first photo I'm 15, and in the second I'm 21, and I work as a carpenter."
"I became an infantryman in the US Army. I'm going to go to college, study international security and conflictology."
"I am a correctional teacher. I teach children how not to behave like I did then. On the left I'm in the ninth grade — on the right I teach ninth graders."
"The beginning of the noughties and our time. Now I serve in the US Air Force."
"2007 and 2015. I became a policeman."
2007 and 2017.
"Now I am 27 years old, I recently started a family and moved into my house. I am studying to become a laboratory technologist."
"I'm getting a junior research associate degree."
"I was pretty weird at school. Now I work in a building materials store on the night shift and I'm trying to figure out what to do next."
"I used to be an EMO with green hair, and now I work for a corporation and pay for training as a web developer and designer. I also work part-time as a tattooed model and I want to become an actress."
Keywords: 00s | Musicians | Clothes | Hairstyles | Subcultures | Then and now