Can some one explain emo plzz.?

Answer 1

lol emo's think they are punk. what losers. There are no real punks anymore. Its a joke. Greenday ain't punk.

Answer 2

Well I'm sure in the 80s or in past generations it was something else. But now in our society people associate the word "emo"with emotional, and as everything that dude that dude with the really long explanation said. The complaining "scremo" music, tight pants makeup and the greasy oddly angled hair.

Answer 3

Emo's are a people who are mostly emotionaly depressed and tend to cut themselves on their wrist. They normally dress in all black with sometimes black eyeliner (even guys). The guys dress in tight pants.
Emo is also a genre of music. The songs normally deal with how crappy life is or about suicide or about hating someone, but not always. Bands like Fall Out Boy are labled emo and none of there songs deal with that stuff.. But theres the hardcore emo's who actually dress in all black, with eyeliner, and tight pants. Bands like these have songs that do deal with that stuff.

Answer 4

Emo

"Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well ****, at least it's close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, ****, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."

Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.

Answer 5

characteristics of emo people:
-usually have dyed black hair, with a red streak somewhere
-very depressed and, er, emotional
-like emo music, which is overemotional and sometimes screamy [dashboard confessional]
-are oversensitive
-wear a lot of black
-wear black framed plastic glasses [kind of like the geek ones, only more flattering]
-wear a lot of black eyeliner
-have very straight hair that is almost always in their face

also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28slang%29

i have a few friends who went through an emo phase. it was funny. hope this helps.

Answer 6

it is a sucky kinda of music..Emo is short for emotional...they whine and act like they have the worst life..it is all about suicide and depression...IT SUCKS

Answer 7

emotional. people who are sad and down all the time. it is asscoiated with the sense of melancholy.

Answer 8

emotionally annoyed at someone.