What the Hell is EMO?

Question

I have no idea what it is dude. :\

Right...EMO is for emotional...thanks that's plenty of help....NOT

Emotional music....what the F*&^%???? Is it country? Is it Rock? Is it Metal? Is it classical????? Come on now!!

A little more explanation that the single word answers... BTW...Itsme has the best answer so far.

And I don't think Heather W should get any points for being a Smart A@# Biotch!

Shut up.

Answer 1

is it Emergency Medical Officer. just kidding

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

Emotional

Answer 3

Emo is a sub-genre of punk rock music. It has also been adopted as a type of style or "scene" that is stereotypically seen as someone who wears vintage clothes, black framed glasses, and converse shoes. Emo is short for "emotional" so people in this scene are often viewed as very sensitive. However, these stereotypes are not often true and REAL emo music is pretty hardcore.

See this site for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28music%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28slang%29

Answer 4

Emo is named after an artist by that name who was mildly successful about 15-20 years ago. He had that gay haircut. Kind of a drug induced comic. Emo Phillips

Answer 5

It's short for emotional.
When people say emo (usually students 12-19) they think, suicidal, cutting, crying, black, make up, and screaming bands, usally My Chemical Romance as well, people also say emos shoud have black hair and really white skin. But that's stereotyping.

Answer 6

It means emotional. Like an emo band would be one that may scream, then change their additude.
An Emo person is like someone who is bipolar, except less dramatic.

Answer 7

A music genre

Answer 8

emotional... happy, sad, depressed, and other emotions people have.... people sterotype emo and say that it only means depressed... that's wrong. have you ever heard of the word emoition ppl. come on. it's not that hard to look up emotion or emotional in the dictionary.,.. a monkey can look up the darn word and know what it means..... srry. alittle overreacted. no offence

Answer 9

Electro Magnetic Orchestration - manipulation of electromagetic energy.

Answer 10

Somebody on here said it was Emotionally Hardcore Music.