What's Emo???

Question

define it and give me an example of an emo band or group or singer or watevur

Answer 1

Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music. Since its inception, emo has come to describe several independent variations, linked loosely but with common ancestry. As such, use of the term (and which musicians should be so classified) has been the subject of much debate.

In its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe the music of the mid-1980s Washington, DC scene and its associated bands. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and, slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.

Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason put forth a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic in nature than its predecessor. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles.

As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture. Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music.

Answer 2

Emo, short for 'emotional', refers to a musical genre defined by whiny singers and slitted wrists that has promulgated itself into its own little cultural phenomenon. Think: Hott Topic. Most people that go there probably are emo or are at least fans of emo music.

Hawthorne Heights is one of the more blatantly emo groups.

Answer 3

Emo is Emotionally Charged Punk Rock and Hawthorn Hights is a good emo band.

Answer 4

In the past, "emo" was a contraction of "emotional hardcore" or "emocore". Lately, it's just been short for "emotional". It's used to describe a style of fashion or music. It can even be used to describe feeling unhappiness, loneliness, depression or melancholy (to feel "emo").
'My Chemical Romance' is an example of a band or group with "emo style".

Answer 5

Emo is emotional and an emo band would be like the killers or like Panic at the disco

Answer 6

An emo is a person who likes to hurt themselves and feel no pain when doing so. They like the colours red, black and white and luv blood so when they get the chance they hurt themselves. Thats all I know. And I think I heard an emo song be4 but i forgot.

Answer 7

Somebody said it means emotionally hardcore music. Although a lot of people say people who listen to emo music slit their wrists and stuff is not necessarily true. I listen to emo and my wrists are perfectly fine. So think before you make a stupid comment like that people it might not be true.

Answer 8

Emo is someone who is over-emotional in a VERY BAD way. They are always depressed and see things in a dark manner. Goth and emo are two way different things.

Answer 9

emo is short for emotional. An emo band is Dashboard Confessional.

Answer 10

emo is short for emotional. and i think nick lachey would be a good example of a emo singer.