what is emo? all i know is i am emo and that stuff but i wanna know almost exactly what it is thank you!!!!!!!

Question

well i know what emo is but..... i know several things like emotional a band genre but i wanna know what the people think it is

and for those people that tell me not to turn into one i allready am one i slit my wrist poke myself with safety pins numerous times and i've been that way for three years and im 14 and trust me i wanna stop so bad but i just can't so stop telling me to stop and don't become a emo "freak" emos aint freaks

Answer 1

Emo may refer to:

* Emo (slang), a slang term used to describe a wide range of fashion styles and attitudes which have roots in emo music
* Emo (music), a subgenre of hardcore punk
* Emo (album), an album by Screeching Weasel
* Emo (oil), an Irish oil company and filling station chain
* Emo's, a nightclub in Austin, Texas
* Emo Philips, an American stand-up comedian
* Emo, County Laois, a town in the Republic of Ireland
* Emo, Ontario, a town in Canada
* Eric Moulds, wide receiver for the Houston Texans (formerly Buffalo Bills) (fan slang)
* Keith Emerson, famed British keyboardist/pianist
* Villa Emo, a 16th century villa by Andrea Palladio
* "Emo", a song by blink-182
* "Emo", a song by Hot Water Music
* Emo, a character in the movie Elephants Dream
* Emo, an abbreviation of given names like Emil and Emanuil

EMO may stand for:

* East Moriches, New York, a town in the United States, sometimes abbreviated to "EMO"
* Electronic Money Order, a type of online currency, or eCurrency
* Emergency Measures Organization, an agency of Canadian provincial government responsible for emergency preparedness
* Emergency Machine-Off operation, more commonly referred to as an Emergency Power-Off
* Extra Man Opportunity, a synonym for a lacrosse or hockey power play

Answer 2

Emo, originally was a type of music which was more "emotional" then other music. This was a stupid category of music because all music, in one way or another, is supposed to be emotional. Over time Emo became more of the look of the bands playing the "emotional" music. For a guy it would be tight pants and tight bands shirts, converses or vans slip ons, and people usuallly consider emo guys to be gay. For girls, short hair, died hair, skinny jeans, and just abnormal exceorries. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Emo is a sub genre of Hardcore Punk.
Short for Emotional Hardcore or Emotionally Charged Punk.
It is a music genre and nothing more....you cannot be emo no matter what people tell you.
That's like saying your jazz or punk.
Again, people may claim they are punk, but the fact is that the punk movement died in the 70s.

Answer 4

Ok, heres something I know about "Emo" Emo is short for emotional and basically they might have had trouble in the family or in the past, so now most of them are sad & depressed. It's good that someone so depressed and sad like that has someone to talk to and discuss what has been the issue. Like a friend.

Answer 5

Emo
The History

Emo began in the mid-80's as an offshoot from the DC hardcore scene. Reacting against growing aggression and limits within the hardcore genre, bands Embrace and Rites of Spring formed to pursue a more personal, experimental form of the genre. It was in this time that, due to the nature of the music, band members would often express great emotion on stage, earning the new genre the "emotive hardcore" moniker. As emo expanded, other scenes sprung up and continued the experimentation and basic DIY ethics borrowed from the punk genre. Around 1994, Fugazi emerged with a post-punk aggressive indie style which was quickly tagged "emo", though the band had not been considered such before. This caught on, and the genre was unofficially split by fans into "hardcore emo" and "indie emo". Bands from this era include Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas Is The Reason, and The Get Up Kids. As indie-emo became more and more mainstream, the scene at large did all but an about-face, and turned to different musical styles, or re-branded themselves as "post-hardcore". By the end of the 90's, Jimmy Eat World released a "mainstream"-sounding album; due to their pervious association with the emo-genre, people attached "emo" to the band's new sound, and as they took off, other bands with similar sounds or casual associations with "emo" began being called "emo" in the popular spectrum. By then, very few emo bands and scenes were still around, and most bands branded "emo" by popular culture reject the label fiercely as ex-emo bands dropped it. Emo as it was is all but dead, and most bands labeled "emo" are not emo, or are no longer emo.

Fashionably, emos tend to be a mix, ranging from gutter-punk clothing to nerdy indie rock fare; usually tight-fitting, worn, or vintage clothing. Emos often get confused for "scenesters", that is, fashionistas; people who attempt to be high-fashion in subcultures, and don't care about the music or culture, just getting the look perfect. Goths also tend to get fashionistas, but it's rare to find in punk circles. This is probably because many modern/mainstream emos are fashionistas; "real" emos probably associate more with punk/(post-}harcore/indie/alt labels now-adays.

Answer 6

It has nothing to do with suicide and it is the media that like characterize and demonize "emo" kids. My daughter and all her friends are "emo" and a nicer, more articulate and intelligent bunch of kids you'll never meet. (The music is good too!)

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.

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 7

Emo is short for EMOtional. They are people that are usually having problems in their life or they are just emotional. LOL

Answer 8

technically, a person can't be emo. because emo is a genre of music. a person can, however, be emotional, which is a temporary attitude.

people who call themselves emo are generally into the emo music scene, wear "emo" clothes (band shirts, tight pants, black skater shoes/converse/slip-ons. not to be confused with "scene" clothing, which takes the word tight to the next level.) They might also complain about how bitter life makes them, how depressed they are, how much they hate their therapist, cut themselves, etc. (note: this doesn't apply to all people claiming to be "emo". you can be just as "emo" if you pretend to be depressed or cut for attention.)

basically, it's all just a lie. because nobody can be a genre of music.

Answer 9

basically a person who is emotional and complain all the time about how life sucks, even though they roll in a benz. They usually just try to attract attention.They sit in a corner and cut themselves. What has our world turned into. Dont turn into one of those emo fags

Answer 10

Um...you know you're emo but you don't know what it is? I think you're a bit confused, Doll. I'm not sure what the difference is between goth and emo, but I'm sure there is one, although they are both groups of people who wear a lot of black and quote old, dark poetry.