Excuse me for not being hip or whatever but..........?

Question

what the heck is emo? or what does it stand for?

Answer 1

Emo is an abbreviation for "Wherever you hear this word, immediately turn in the opposite direction and run away as quickly as your sanity can take you!"

It's a genre of music (picture it more like harcore's sickly step sister with braces). You can distinguish an emo band from their haircuts that look like they stuck their heads in a blender, lip rings, and emitting a high pitched whine about girls named Mary Ann who hate them. Be very careful when approaching said emo bands, for studies are underway to prove that their plaintive wail can render a person not only deaf to other music genres, but sterile as well.

Answer 2

The first wave (1985–1994)
In 1985 in Washington, D.C., Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, veterans of the DC hardcore music scene, decided to shift away from what they saw as the constraints of the basic style of hardcore and the escalating violence within the scene. They took their music in a more personal direction with a far greater sense of experimentation, bringing forth MacKaye's Embrace and Picciotto's Rites of Spring. The style of music developed by Embrace and Rites of Spring soon became its own sound. (Hüsker Dü's 1984 album Zen Arcade is often cited as a major influence for the new sound.) As a result of the renewed spirit of experimentation and musical innovation that developed the new scene, the summer of 1985 soon came to be known in the scene as "Revolution Summer".[1] [2]

Within a short time, the D.C. emo sound began to influence other bands such as Moss Icon, Nation of Ulysses, Dag Nasty, Soulside, Shudder To Think, Fire Party, Marginal Man, and Gray Matter, many of which were released on MacKaye's Dischord Records. The original wave of DC emo finally ended in late 1994 with the collapse of Hoover.

Where the term emo actually originated is uncertain, but members of Rites of Spring mentioned in a 1985 interview in Flipside Magazine that some of their fans had started using the term to describe their music. By the early 90s, it was not uncommon for the early DC scene to be referred to as emo-core, though it's unclear when the term shifted.

Answer 3

Emo is actually a type of music, and not a group of people, but now a cult of teeny depressants take it upon themselves to turn it into a fashion statement.

Answer 4

Emotional (music genre) Not a emo kid but I looked for you.

Answer 5

Sounds like a financial device/instrument.

Answer 6

it stands for "emotional"

emo people :) emotional people

they're the type of people that are stereotyped for "Crying" and "cutting" and listenin to that screamo shyz

Answer 7

emo people are Gothic people...