What is an Emo?

Question

I see a lot of people saying that they r or something like that. What the heck is it?




Wasnt sure what to put this question under.

Answer 1

its a person who takes things seriously and is a loner probably sad or hurt keeps feelings inside all the time even though they seem to cry alot but there nice to hang out with and actually can smile, have fun, and be a good person but not all "emos" wear black,cut do drugs or drink all the time ...so don't steriotype people who are different just becuase you can't understand them or choose not to...

Answer 2

emo started out as a type of music..slowly evovled into a steryotype

emo kids are strange...they strive to be "defferent" yet all look the sam.e the boys wear tight pants and shirts and the girls wear mismatched clothing


they think the have problems, and they whine about it. most of thier music sucks they are arepathetic...

not to be confused with scene kids who just go with the flow and act and dress like whatever the majority is...so if the majority is emo, so are they


but really emo is just a type of music.

or a pathetic impersination of a goth...not the same thing...but close


they cut thier wrists in "every direction"

Answer 3

It was originaly short for emotional, but people have already killed that meaning with things like "emo hair" and "emo clothes", which don't make sense, so to tell you the truth i dont even know anymore. But Im guessing it has become a style revolving around emo/screamo music just like goths & punks.

Answer 4

I believe that you're talking bout the music "emo", short for "emotional" Peeps mention that they like emo but they don't really know what it is. I don't really know what it is... But I know that Dashboard Confessional is emo.

Omg I was just reading these A's & on this Much Music thing AXS on the net, (they're playing one after the other) someone was talking bout "emo music" : | Creepy !!!

Answer 5

Emo is a form of punk and its followers are called emos. Emo stands for emotional. The word "emo" may be used as a noun to identify a member of the emo scene, as an adjective to describe a certain style of fashion or music, or even to describe a state of experiencing unhappiness, loneliness, depression or melancholy (to feel "emo").

There are two popular forms of dress associated with emo. The first is essentially what came out of the 90s "indie emo" scene, and has connections to indie rock and punk rock. It includes more vintage and thrift store clothing, typically for a well-worn look. Some of the clothing leans toward khaki colors. T-shirts are typically of smaller sizes and with random prints, often images from the 1980s. Bags and backpacks often have pins and patches of various bands.

The other popular style of dress focuses on darker colors. Commonly seen elements include dark colored hair, dyed either black, red, multi-colored (brown and black, red and purple, etc.), or an unnatural dark hue, males wearing pants tailored for females, lip, eyebrow, and labret piercings, and dark make-up on males and females (most notably black eyeliner, although red eyeshadow is becoming increasingly popular). A common accessory for both males and females are glasses with a dark coloured (usually black), thick rim, a style sometimes even worn by persons who do not require corrective eye-wear.

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.

Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World became popular acts associated with emo becoming a mainstream sound. Correctly or not, emo has often been used to describe such bands as AFI, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, Finch, From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Silverstein, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Thrice, and Thursday.

Answer 6

Emo comes from a style of music short for emotional. Basically these kids have somewhat long black died hair, tight pants and paint their fingernails and sh*t. Not as depressed as goth kids, but they are still pansies. Emo is the downfall of rock & roll.

Answer 7

the answer to that question is; type of depressional deep dark thinking along thelines of goth,but not really goth in the bad sense,but they refer to it as a bad thing to be emo,But its not bad amoung the emo people themselves.music or style that actually means emotionally disturbed youth. Thus the EMO prefix of the word.This is a teen thing.

Answer 8

I wasn't sure myself until a week or so ago. I keep hearing it all the time. I heard a quote from one of my friends, and then I figured it out. She said "I wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself." Sad, but kinda funny.

Answer 9

they are the lame kids who cry and cut themselves because "their lives are so hard." they whine about everything and act all hardcore, but they're not. most of them are rich and act like their lives are hell when there are kids at 15 working and helping to provide food for younger siblings because they aren't as fortunate as the whiny rich emos. they are stupid and take life for granted. if you dropped them off in the ghetto they would disappear faster than spinners on a escalade. they want to be different, but they are all the same. for me its like going to school as an individual in a world of clones.

Answer 10

an emo is a freek who wants to get attention so they slit theyr wrists and guys wear girl pants (eeeeew) much like goths, just want attention... most say itstands for emotional, but the only emotion they have is jealousy