what is emo?

Question

i feel weird asking but what is emo

Answer 1

Emo, is a step down from Goth. Generally, these people dye their hair odd colors, and refrain from wearing any sort of bright colors. Most of the time, they wear black. Many times, a heavier into it emo will have multiple piercings as well. Both emo guys and girls tend to color, or paint their fingernails, and toenails black. I hope that helps!

Answer 2

Bunch of crybabies with girl problems....But it's more eloquently described in wikipedia:



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 or melancholy (as in "to feel emo"). Emo is also used as a noun, often pejoratively, to identify a member of the "emo scene" or someone viewed as fitting the "emo" stereotype.
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.

In recent years, as its use has come to define more than just the music, the word emo has more often been viewed as simply being short for "emotional".

Answer 3

emo is when someone is so depressed tht they feel the need to hurt themselves which usualy results in cutting themselves. Emo is slang for the word emotional. So tht is wut emo is and it is not good to become emo it is a very horrible sickness and people tht r emo are stupid, inconcerate, and have problems.

Answer 4

emo is the character on sesame street the little blue guy

Answer 5

Emo is what my ex use to call me >.<

take your pick of these definitions.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo

Answer 6

it's a type of bird, it looks like an ostrach

Answer 7

ITS LIKE A GOTH OR PUNK

Answer 8

it means emotional