can anyone explain to me what the term emo means?

Answer 1

I was told I was emo once by a kid at my youth group (at church) probably because I don't feel accepted as part of the group making me shy.
and the same kid who called me emo is also called emo, but in a difference sense of the word, according to my sister there are several different types of emo and the kid who called me emo probably meant emotional and himself the mosh pit part of emo.
it's all pretty lame and hard to understand, I just want to know how it will effect the future generation.

Answer 2

Its just a term that teenagers use to describe kids who wear black and listen to a type of music. Most of the time kids mistake the person who is being EMO as a drug addict or a cutter when they are actually shy.

Answer 3

short for "emotional." Emo is a broad title that covers a lot of different styles of emotionally-charged punk rock.

Emo is a somewhat ambiguous, controversial slang term[1] most frequently used to describe a fashion or subculture which is usually defined to have roots in punk fashion and subculture[2], as well as some attributes of gothic fashion and subculture.[3] It is loosely defined, and its meaning varies by region, but most definitions share a number of similarities.[1]

Answer 4

the term emo just means emotional

Answer 5

well, it's a dumb *ss stereotype, but it just means overly emotional. it's really controversial (in high schools, anyway) and i think that most people are emo at some point. it's like calling someone a prep, or a nerd, most people don't like to be classed as that, but it's what their social appearance is seen as.

Answer 6

If you are an "emo" it meens that your like goth but your a little bit weirder. I have heard that emo's cut there wrists and one person cut themselves all over there body! Its a very strange term. It also meens that your EMOtional.

Answer 7

Emo. short for emotional. Emo. A form of punk rock. Emo. A dress code of tiny t-shirts and horn-rimmed glasses. type the notice "emo" into your well-known seek engine and you gets over 3 million outcomes which will embody almost that many distinctive evaluations of what emo relatively is. the final attitude to the term is a lot like the attitude to pornography, "i won't be able to make it easier to be attentive to precisely what it relatively is, yet i would be attentive to it when I see (or hear) it." The historic past of emo is particularly much less ambiguous than its cutting-edge meaning. "Emo" music greater out of the D.C. punk scene in the '80s. In its unique incarnation, emo became into short for emocore, or emotional-hardcore. The call became into utilized to hardcore punk rock bands who sought after themselves from their friends via including an emotional portion of their music, coping with unhappiness and love and angst of their lyrics. The music became into additionally characterised via incredibly dramatic vocals which, at superb, left the objective industry in an emotionally charged state, crying or screaming. these days, emo has been popularized and despatched into the mainstream by bands like Dashboard Confessional, Taking lower back Sunday and Saves the Day. Emo music has even inspired its very own subcultural form. Take your well-known Rites of Spring fan and you get somebody who seems a lot like Weezer's Rivers Cuomo--nerdy glasses, classic tees, cuffed denims, talk footwear and slightly shrunken tops. Black hair and at present bangs, tight hoodies and thrift save dresses are additionally linked with emo. And whilst emo devotees are notoriously in strengthen approximately their thoughts, as a replace of donning their hearts on their sleeves, they have an inclination to prefer ironic slogans and band trademarks. these days, labeling somebody as "emo" is something of a placed-down, a stand-in for "overly emotional" or "melodramatic." The implication is they're excessively moody and angsty, companies to crying jags and plagued via a love of undesirable poetry. warm topic even issued a patch that study, "cheer up, emo youngster!" yet for people who call themselves emo, the term potential something extra organic. At its middle, emo is all approximately being in strengthen alongside with your thoughts. Or, as one "expert" defined it, "emo is like being Goth, yet much less darkish, a lot extra Harry Potter."

Answer 8

EMO-tional

Answer 9

Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle.

Answer 10

emotinal

depressed kida like you kno Fall Out Boy ? there
and emo band they have songs for like the mood like all kindss
im emo ahaa jay kay when your emo you cut yourselff