What kind of music is "emo"?

Question

I have heard of it but have no idea.

Links will get an automatic thumbs down; if I wanted to look somewhere else, I wouldn't have asked the question here.

I mean, messages with ONLY links will get an automatic thumbs down, for the reason I stated.

Answer 1

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 2

emo - short for "emotional." Emo is a broad title that covers a lot of different styles of emotionally-charged punk rock. This site is intended to introduce the reader to all the common styles, describe them musically, and give ideas about the essential records of all those styles.

Answer 3

EMO IS NOT MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE PANIC! AT THE DISCO OR FALL OUT BOY!!!or anything of the like! I lot of EMOs (well the ones they think they are usually) tend to listen to them but the band's music themselves are NOT emo. They are merely punk rock

NO! Ok well it started in the 1980's I think in the Washington area. Anyway to answer your question, it's like punk rock music with screaming mixed in.

Hawthrone Heights, The Used, and some others are examples of newer emo.
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but are you referring to emo music as in what emo kids listen to or the actual music subgenre? Emo kids can basically listen to anything. Metal&[punk&emo]rock are mostly what they listen to.
The metal isnt even really metal... its like metalcore: Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, As I Lay Dying...

Answer 4

I saw this group of kids at the mall the other day. Same old thing, they think they're being different ....but they all look the same. Any way , these kids, all skinny, straight jeans small t shirts, funky straight combed hair...is this Emo too???

Answer 5

Hoy crap! I just saw a young man with a messenger bag. Embroidered on it was "Emonese". I was wondering about this.

Are those really tight pants part of it too? I like that much better than the ridiculous looking "hang your pants to your knees" look.

Answer 6

Emotional. Makes you feel Emotional and depressed. Where kids cut their rists. ...and thats about it... and emo has nothing to do w. punk, cuz i listen to it, so dont listen to the "prep"

and i am a FOB LUVR, SO DONT TALK SMACK ABOUT THEM, as you can see in my avatar. No, a GOOD example of emo is Evanesense, The Used, My Chemical Romance KINDA, uum, Emo is like the Dark Side of Punk. They tend to do the "screaming" thing.

Answer 7

Atreyu is very common.
Also
Breaking Benjamin
Bullet for My Valentine
Three Days Grace

Answer 8

any music thats not rock or metal

any music made by a 15 year old girl pants whereing "guy"

any music that makes you want to dress in black and go to the mall and do nothing

Answer 9

Jet, Justin Timberlake, My Chemical Romance

Answer 10

It's music that expresses a strong sense of emotions from the singer(s).