I guess I'm getting old. I have no clue what an emo is. Hell, I don't even know what catagory to put this question in!!!!!!! How can I catagorize something if I don't even know what it is????
2006-07-28 23:06:35 · 12 answers · asked by berkeleygirl 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
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.
Stylistic origins: hardcore punk, indie rock
Cultural origins: mid 1980s Washington, DC Emo is a slang term used to describe a range of fashion styles and attitudes somewhat affiliated with emo music and its related scenes. As an adjective, emo can describe a style of fashion or music; or a general state of unhappiness, loneliness, depression or melancholy (as in "to feel emo"). Emo is also used as a noun, often pejoratively, to identify a member of the "emo scene".
Typical instruments: Guitar - Bass - Drums
Mainstream popularity: Sporadically through the 1980s and '90s, growing in the early 2000s
Subgenres
Emocore - Hardcore emo - Emo violence - Screamo
Fusion genres
Post-hardcore
Regional scenes
Midwestern emo
Other topics
List of emo groups - Timeline of alternative rock
2006-07-28 23:11:25 · answer #1 · answered by Nickname 5 · 37⤊ 8⤋
Emo is slang term that was once related to emo music. It now refers loosely to the idea of being a little melancoly, a bit dark, somewhat depressed. It seems to be a form of teenage angst.
I found a useful discussion at wikipedia. See the source below.
2006-07-28 23:14:14 · answer #2 · answered by cehelp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The short and simple answer is that Emo is Hardcore Punk music with sensitive and emotional lyrics ...
2006-07-28 23:16:50 · answer #3 · answered by quikzip7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for asking this question, and to Ms. Nonickname for answering it. I have been wondering about that for some time.
(To me, EMO stands for the Emergency Measures Organization.....but i was pretty sure people weren't writing songs about that.)
2006-07-28 23:27:49 · answer #4 · answered by missinglincoln 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, Pretty. I didn't know what EMO was either until you asked. I would have, but didn't get around to it.
Thanks.
2006-07-28 23:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by Lonnie P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional
2006-07-28 23:09:05 · answer #6 · answered by It's EdnaTime 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm emo is a person that wears black all the time and is depressed for no reason and wears skinny jeans and stuff.
2006-07-28 23:11:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emo is an alien running around with a BONner
2006-07-28 23:09:44 · answer #8 · answered by gettoolow 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I kinda notion it was once humorous, i certainly appreciated the side close the top in which he talks approximately how he is not homosexual and is going on approximately what number of men he madeout with. That was once the funniest side to me.=)
2016-08-28 16:05:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
woah. Its a new sterio type.
Here this'll explain it.
http://www.dumbvideos.com/emovideo.html
Its a little explicit.
2006-07-28 23:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, Your Getting Old.
2006-07-28 23:09:29 · answer #11 · answered by alyssa! 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋