What is emo?

Question

People define lots of people as emo...what exactly is it?

Answer 1

Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music.

It also is a slang term derived from the word 'emotional', 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 more and more often, just 'The Scene') or someone viewed as fitting the 'emo' stereotype.

Answer 2

Emo is a sub genre of punk rock that stands for "Emotional"

It was created in the 80's, and most TRUE emo has died out.
There are moder versions of emo, of which useally involve deep despair, occasinally followed by forms of self mutaltion, such as cutting or suicide.

However, calling someone emo as an insult just meas that they are always depressed. It is not really connected to the music genre.

Most people today have never heard true emo music, jsut the modern-day spin off of it. Emo didn't go over to well in the days it was created.

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.

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 4

I'm emo/goth sure there's a change and I'm a mixture of each... My dad calls me emish, I'm looking forward to that to capture on haha... Emos are nice the variety rocks along side the style in song and certainly emo is created via tough lives or pasts nevertheless, this does not imply we're constantly unhappy and depressed we do smile!!

Answer 5

Emo = emotional?

Answer 6

Evangelists Mouthing Obscenities

Answer 7

Emo is short for Emotional... at least that's what my little brother told me...

Answer 8

a bunch of ****** a$$ whiteboys wit ****** a$$ haircuts rockin out on stage and singing about cuttin there wrist and crying cuz there not accepted

Answer 9

over emotional