Whar is an "emo"?

Question

I know this guy who says he will only date emo girls, what does that mean?

Answer 1

Emo stands for Emotional. it's basically people who think they are always victims, life is cruel to them and enjoy moaning, writing lame poetry, some cut themselves, and writing their names with 'x's on, like xemilyx
they are weird. stay away.

Answer 2

an emo girl is like a goth or sumone that would dress like that. im a junior in high school. so u can trust me on this one. you know, dark clothes the whole "i hate my life thing" listens to really bad music because they think it will show other people that they hate there life. ya so. good luck. but ummm. if ur looking for a guy that only dates emo girls. like this guy, then u can definetly do better.

Answer 3

My heavens, I certainly not had been flashed, however I did by accident flash a couple of humans as soon as. I used to be within the health facility a while again and made up our minds to take a stoll to the merchandising discipline. Well, I wasn't considering what I used to be dressed in and, allow's simply say that the ones health facility robes do not depart plenty to the creativeness at the bottom. The nurse got here up from at the back of me and positioned a blanket over my shoulders . . . I used to be puzzling over why it used to be a bit drafty again there!

Answer 4

Emo is a quiet person who feels alot of pain but tells no one they cut there wrist they were only dark colors and don't have many friends!

Answer 5

Yeah, these people wallow in their own self pity. You don't need this. If he's only looking for emo girls, assuming he's not one himself, it means he's looking for people he can try to "fix" - he's got a serious hero complex and once the problem is fixed he's ready to move on to the next "victim of society". Look for normal...normal is good.

Answer 6

dark clothed kind of an emotional person usually black hair and kind of long for guys. But they arent always emotional and they listen to metal, heavy metal and stuff like that. They are kinda goth

Answer 7

It the Style of music they listen to. It like a Hard Rock/Punk Rock mix.
As with any Style of music comes a type of personality as many have stated here.
This how I see it. Maybe it not have anything to do with music.

Answer 8

"Emo" stands for emotional.

Basicially, he is referring to the girls that walk around with a frown on their face, smudged eyeliner, and listen to the pop-punk bands that are all over MTV.

Answer 9

A girl you don't want to be! They are dark, depressed and have a lot of issues.

Answer 10

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".

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.

There are two popular forms of dress that are considered emo. The first is essentially derived from the 1990s "indie emo" scene, and has connections to indie rock, grunge, and punk rock. It includes more vintage and thrift store clothing, typically for a well-worn look. Some of the clothing leans toward khaki colors. T-shirts are typically of smaller sizes, and with various prints, often images from the 1980s punk culture. Bags and backpacks often have pins and patches of various bands.

The other popular style of dress focuses on darker colors. Commonly seen styles include straight, dark colored hair, either black, red, multi-colored (brown and black, red and purple, etc.) which covers one eye, males wearing pants tailored for females, lip, eyebrow, and labret piercings, and dark make-up on males and females (most notably black eyeliner, although red and pink eyeshadow is becoming increasingly popular). A common accessory for both males and females is glasses with a dark coloured (usually black), thick rim, a style sometimes even worn by persons who do not require corrective eye-wear. Wristbands in various colors are also popular.

Converse All-Star style shoes are common amongst both styles of dress, as are Vans and other skate shoe brands.

While "emo" is often used to describe the dress and attitudes of fans of emo music, "emo" as a musical genre and "emo" as a slang term are largely separate. "Emo" as a musical genre long pre-dated the use of "emo" as a slang term. At the same time, most current bands are labeled "emo" unwillingly, largely because they share some of the fashion trends and attitude associated with "emo" as a slang term.

There is also a common stereotype that associates "emo" with self-harm, most notably cutting wrists, partly due to song lyrics associated with "emo" bands, which often speak of acts of self-destruction. However, apart from the anecdotal, there is no significant evidence of any correlation between emo and self-harm.