what is emo music???

Question

everyone's talkin bout it but i really dunno what it is. and gimme examples plz. and why is everyone so into it???

Answer 1

I think it's a matter of opinion, like Heavy Metal, no one can define it, not even the pioneers of it and there were some debates over which bands are metal and which bands are not. Like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against The Machines, KISS.

As most people say, emo can be said as emotionally-charged punk rock. I dunno where i heard it but i remember hearing somebody say that it is whiny pop music. (Hey, It's not my opinion, I dun even really know what Emo is.) The Common bands i see associated with this terms are Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Fallout Boy, Panic At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, Blink 182 so on & so on.

Answer 2

Metro Station, The Medic Droid, Sky Eats Airplane, A Rocket To The Moon, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Mindless Self Indulgence, Boys Like Girls, 3OH!three, Story Of The Year, Something Corprate, Tokio Hotel, The Devil Wears Prada, Paramore, Alesana, Kill Hannah, Dashboard Confessional, Bullet For My Valentine, Chiodos, Cute Is What We Aim For, Jeffree Star, Drop Dead Gorgeuos, Shiny Toy Guns, Cobra StarShip, A Day To Remember, As I Lay Dieing, From First To Last, HelloGoodbye, Against Me!, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Meg and Dia, Within Temptation,GreenDay, The All American Rejects, Keane, Coldplay, 30 Seconds to Mars, Panic! on the Disco, Simple Plan, One Republic, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, HIM, DNR, Three Days Grace, Snow Patrol, Evanescence, We The King, Death Cab for Cutie,Maroon five, Cinema Bizarre, All Time Low, Aiden,Bring Me The Horizon, Framing Hanley, MUTEMATH, The Maine, Halestorm, Escape The Fate, Cage The Elephant, P.O.D, AFI, Tv/Tv, The virgins, HADOUKEN!

Answer 3

Whoever said My Chemical Romance are emo above, kindly come round to my house for a slap in the faec with a wet fish.

In all honesty, you'll not find real emo lazily (ie not by watching MTV etc). The 'emo' that people talk about now is not actually emo, it is a bastardised version that has been created by marketeers to appeal to little kids. Emo is emotional, now what about Panic at the Disco etc is emotional? Nothing! Emo is not about how much make a boy puts on, or how tight his jeans are, in fact the tight jeans are probably the only thing throwback from when emo was sitll emo.

Emo started up in the mid 80's, rising out of the kids who were growing tired of DC hardcore. From DC, it spread out over the 80's and early 90's.

Emo bands shunned technical stuff, partly due to the sounds that they wanted to produce, but also the sheer cost of the equipment for kids who were selling tapes for 2 dollars. Making money from the music was never the point of emo.

Its generally said that the first band was Rites of Spring, whose lineup included Guy Picolotto, who latre joined with Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat etc) to form Fugazi. There were a numbre of absolutely stand out emo bands, but they were often local kids who stayed together for a few weeks and put out a demo tape that did the rounds amongst all the other local kids. Few proper recordings were made, so often rough and dirty recordings made at home were the only time an emo band was heard when they were not playing live. Even the bands that were relatively big only put out stuff on tiny numbers of vinyl.

Listen to I Hate Myself to know what real emo is about. Seriously, some of the stuff is absolutely heart cracking. Amazing lyrics, screamed with total passion, coupled with beautiful crashing music that shakes your soul.

Emo is not about an image, although the scenester kids will have you think differently. It is completely about the music, and the way it tas into the way you feel. Listen to I Hate Myself's Dramainer for example.

Emo is difficult to pinpoint as a particular type of sound. It is easy to point at one or two bands and say they typify a certain sound at a certain time (as i have done above) but the styles and sounds are very different between bands and times.

Take emocore bands like hot water music, again highly emotional, yet nohting like I Hate Myself, despite both being undeniably emotional.

As time went on, emo moved on to more poppy sounds, bands like The Get Up Kids and Sunny Day Real Estate, making it more accessible to many people. The more poppy the sound got, the more commercial it became, with MTV picking up alot of the more indie-inspired band videos.

I guess that that commercialisation continued until emo, for most kids now, means nothing. It is just another fad that will fade out and all these crap flybynight bands who are more interested in image than music quality or the feelings they are letting out.

Answer 4

Emo is just a twist on punk/rock music that's emotional, like "My Chemical Romance", "Dashboard Confessional" or "30 Seconds to Mars". They're bands that aren't just fun--they have a message or a depressing undertone. It's sort of this generation's fight against the poppy music, and boy-band era. They usually have an agenda, and it works well for adolescents who are trying to "find themselves". It gives them something to be about.

Answer 5

emo is from emotional and emo is a rock style (as we say "classic rock" we also say "emo rock") is actually something like goth style. not sure

Answer 6

emo = emoTIONAL. its sappy sorta alt rock like weezer. for wussies! lol.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_(music)