what does emo mean?

Answer 1

Its short for "emotional hardcore" and its basically a bunch of rich white kids from the suburbs whining because their mommies and daddies didn't love them enough and trying to pass it off as music.

Anyone who knows anything about music will know that its been around for about 10 years or so now but for some reason it has recently caught on with all the MTV watching teenagers of the world.

Answer 2

it's derived from the word "emotional" and generally means bands that try really hard to be brooding and sentimental all at the same time. their music is easily characterized by super-long song titles that don't necessarily have any relevance to the song or its lyrics. some titled examples are: "Our Lawyers Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued," "I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth," "There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet" ... you get the point. For a more exact definition, try wikipedia:

Answer 3

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 has been the subject of much debate.

Answer 4

Perhaps the 20th million question like this i've answered lol.Emo is considered as peope who are depressed with their life and cut themself.BUT THAT IS'NT TRUE! Only people who don't know what their talking abt say that!But emo is mostly a type of music.And o yeah emo stands for emotional.Some emo bands are lik TBS and MCR.There are alot of emo bands! And i lovee them all!!

Answer 5

Basically it's Goth with a sunnier front.
Poppier music
Brighter clothes
Shorter hair
Same damn problems

Also, people of any age can be Goth, but the whole EMO thing didn't start till 2002 at the earliest.

Answer 6

Well emo can either mean a type of music or a person who cuts him/her self.

Answer 7

DEFENITION of a Scene Kid...

what most people call emo isnt actually real!... MTV made emo out to be emotionally disturbed kids who cut there wrists cuz they think there life sucks (and some commit suicide) emo is actually a type of music back before MTV did what it did.... what you think is an emo kid is basicly a scene kid and an emationally disturbed kid mixed. ...a scene kid is alot like emo kid but different as well... they wear tight jeans tight band shirts or black shirts or other kinda fun shirts like that (almost always tight) and has his hair spiked or styled in some way and over one eye and its usually black (sometimes with oher colors streaked in), sometimes a scene guy(a scene girl would wear it most of the time) would wear eyeliner/black nail polish.... scene kids usualy wear converse/skate shoes or other kind of shoes like that, scene kids sometiems will use a cool/cute frase like rawr, band band band, rad, dandy, or other frases like such..... and MOST IMPORTANT a scene kid is happy and they DO NOT cut there wrists, and they dont hate there lives... and of course all there accessories from hottopic and other stores like that. EXAMPLE: studded bracelet or belt, fishnets(sometimes), there fav band merchandise. scene kids usually listen to music like screamo, metal, the occasional rap/hip hop song, or indie rock, or sometimes rock. Scene Kid would listen to a band like from first to last, while an emo kid(even though emo is just something MTV made up we will use it for this example) would listen to a band like dashboard confessional, scene kids like more screamo and metal, while emos (even tho not real) like more sad and songs about cutting, and heartbreakes. people think scene kids are emo (which again is not real) because there so ignorant of other people, and also most scene kids are not GAY/BI!! even though most people they are it isnt true... they arent lonely and usually have alot of friends because of there nice attitudes.

Answer 8

emo means emotional music like my chemical romance or 30 seconds to mars (but i love those bands though)

Answer 9

emo means something lame, obviously lame or a sissy cry baby

Answer 10

Emotional..lala broken heart songs