Can someone explain to me the Emo religion/cult?

Question

I'm not sure if I have this right but there seems to be a scary new trend amongst young people.

Answer 1

ME
Its isnt a cult. Its a subculture teen and young adults that are generally sad and poetic seem to fall into.
Emo was origionally a music genere and nothing more, but beginning in the mid-to-late 90's its been increasingly marketed as a "label", if you will.
WIKIPEDIA
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 Religion

Answer 3

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"Emo" is a label used to describe kids who generally listen to a genre of music called "Emotive hardcore". It's where the name originated from. A stereotypical emo kid is someone who wears Tripp pants [the ones with the chains all over them], writes deep and meaningful poetry, listens to hardcore screamo, is depressed all the time, cuts, is suicidal, shops at Hot Topic, cries a lot, is agnostic OR a Satanist, finds themselves to be deep and insecure, and hides themselves from the world outside their smallish group of emo friends. Basically it's a more emotional goth, but most kids who are labelled emo are insulted by it. So don't call anyone emo unless they give you permission to, and the ones that give you permission to are posers and they just want attention. They're also insulted by people checking their wrists for scars. That's a hint to the people who assume that people who shop at Hot Topic are automatically cutters. Maybe we happen to like the color black. Perhaps most of the bands we listen to make black shirts. That doesn't necessarily mean that we hate the world and take it out on our arms. ALSOOO... the ones that do need help. And lumping them all together under the heading "emo" is why so many of them aren't getting the help they need.

Answer 4

Here's what Wikpedia says:

For more than a decade, the term emo was used almost exclusively to describe the genre of music that spawned from the 1980s DC scene and the bands inspired by it. However, during the late 1990s, as emo music began to emerge into popular consciousness, the term began to be used as a broader reference than its prior music denotation.

The origin of the word emo itself is unclear. In a 1985 interview by Rites of Spring in Flipside Magazine, members of the band noted that some of their fans in DC were starting to call them "emo", arguably because of the state of emotion that the band displayed during their shows. In later years, the word emo was viewed as a contraction of "emotional hardcore" or "emocore", which was the popular designation of the music genre.

A younger contingent insists that emo is a contraction for "emotive hardcore". However, no primary source has been found to confirm use of that term prior to the mid-1990s. At the same time, numerous sources cite the use of "emotional hardcore" dating back to the mid-to-late 1980s.

Answer 5

not a cult, not a religion. just fashion. They do the drama bit, acting out borderline breakdown. Kind of like country music in a Gothic style. It is a natural extension of Gothic
By the way Gothic is about those old pulp novels with the darkness and depressive atmosphere.

Answer 6

heh. its not really a cult and definitely not a religion, its just....a fad, of young teens trying to stand out and be 'different' from the usual. they do it mostly for attention, only a few actually have depression and love and life issues like a real emo would. for the most part these are called 'emo posers' and 89% of all emo are posers. the rest actually do have problems that need to be help. poor kids...

Answer 7

Because they see someone famous "crying their heart out" in their music and they think it's cool. I guess the emo fashion style came from the bands as well. And when young people see something that's popular, they automatically think they have to be like these bands, and dress like them, and for what? Attention. Plain and simple.

Answer 8

It's not a religion or a cult. For most of them it's a trend (although none of them will admit it) like grunge was in the nineties. It's bible freaks and over-protective parents(no offense) that blow it out of proportion.

Answer 9

"Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well ****, at least it's close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, ****, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."

Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.


Hope that helps.

Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the "horrible pop rock" genre, not the emo genre.

Rites of Spring is emo.

by Chelsea Mar 2, 2005 email


This is only one definition

Answer 10

I do not believe is a religion is just a trend word or people that want or need attention and they act EMO.