Whats the deal with EMO'S???

Question

are they like pop goths or something?

Answer 1

I'm emo and I don't have an urge to cut myself or kill myself so that has nothing to do with it. It's about the music and the scene. If you don't get it then leave it alone.

Answer 2

Haha! I love the question!

I also like the scientific answer that one person gave.

This a tough one...when someone asks me, "What type of music do you listen to" its really tough to explain. To someone who understands "emo," you can just say that. But to someone who doesnt, what do you say? Rock? Alt Rock? Indie Rock? Punk?

I think in the past, Emo was a style, a sound, a feel. Music and fashion a linked, no doubt about that. But I think the meaning of emo has changed now'a days.

Pop-Goths I right and wrong I guess.

I think now'a days...you just have to feel what the meaning means. You have to use context to figure it out.

You can see a person walking down the street, and by what he is wearing, you can say "Oh, that is SOO EMO!" (The indie rock look: Tight pants, t-shirt, hoodie, ect)

But then you can say music is emo and the people in the band might no dress like that.

Its alot of stereotyping and using context and feelign what it means in the specific situation!

This answer doesnt help at all does it!?

I'm dumb...

Answer 3

lol pop goth. that's great!
uuummmm, pop the opposite? knida like punks these days all shop at hot topic and use daddy's credit cards???
punk used to be the down trodden kids who shopped at goodwill before it was trendy. now they are a bunch of rich spoiled brats who are rebelling against Mommy's and daddy's money.
same with emo and goth. goth used to be pissed off dark spirited kids who wore all black and spent their time being depressed. now they are a bunch of cry-babies who want to whine about everything and how life is all kins of unfair who happen to wear black.

and see the world differently? bluch! silly silly! everyone sees things differently, most people don't decide to cry about it and cut themselves and become a wart on society. they are attention getters and are succeeding, don't worry, it will move onto another, probably worse, phase in about 8-10 years. and then all these 'emos' will have desk jobs or be stocking shelves at wal-mart and moving on with life in one way or another.

Answer 4

Close - pop goths - I like that.

To me it seems the word PUNK has so many other layers now - that slang has grown in depth to include EMO

Actually "Emo is a slang term used to describe a range of fashion styles and attitudes somewhat affiliated with emo music and its related scene. 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"), as those stereotyped of emo are often unhappy, think they are misunderstood, and may have mild paranoia. 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. Was derived from the word "emotional".

"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, 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 argues that emo is a contraction for "emotive hardcore". However, no primary source demonstrates the use of that term prior to the mid-1990s. Meanwhile, 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 often been viewed as short for "emotional".


2000s
Bands like Dashboard Confessional began to popularize a more dramatic and personal style of "emo", which used lyrics that had a far greater appeal amongst teenagers experiencing life and love for the first time. As the lyrical content shifted, and as the genre began to enter the mainstream, the term "emo" started to be used more often to describe what was perceived by those outside the scene as the overwrought melodrama of the music. The perception was that melodrama was feigned, an effort to display depression or dysfunction where it didn't actually exist. Popular comments such as "don't be so emo" and "cheer up, emo kid" expressed the belief among detractors that fans of emo music took themselves too seriously.

As major labels began categorising more diverse bands under the "emo" label, varying styles of music and dress began to be conflated as well. The style of bands like My Chemical Romance and Panic! At the Disco, including their use of makeup (particularly black eyeliner) and longish hair (often covering one eye or the face) began to be associated with emo.

By the way - Panic! at the Disco rock and MCR sucks.

Punk - Goth - Whatever - DEFY LABELS!!!

Answer 5

Nice generalization, but no. There's a difference between the original emotional hardcore fans and the Dashboard-loving ex-top-forty junkies of today. Looking up the history would be ideal.

Answer 6

we are people who find life different than others pop is the opposite of goth

Answer 7

If I'm not mistaken, they are cutters, and have a belief that one can remove emotional pain by taking it out on your physical person.

Answer 8

THEY ARE SAD, SAD LITTLE PPL WHO NEED HELP.