what is a emo ?

Question

my daughter into all emo stuff i dont mind shes not hurting anyone but shes only 9 and now she says she in to fearys am sick of the looks people are giving her shes all ways been very individual but now she wants to hang out by the monument i think shes to young any helpful suggestions

Answer 1

Emo. Short for emotional. Emo. A genre of punk rock. Emo. A dress code of tiny t-shirts and horn-rimmed glasses. Type the word "emo" into your average search engine and you'll get over three million results that will encompass nearly that many different opinions of what emo actually is. The general approach to the term is a lot like the approach to pornography, "I can't tell you exactly what it is, but I'll know it when I see (or hear) it."
The history of emo is somewhat less ambiguous than its current meaning. "Emo" music developed out of the D.C. punk scene in the '80s. In its original incarnation, emo was short for emocore, or emotional-hardcore. The name was applied to hardcore punk rock bands who distinguished themselves from their peers by adding an emotional component to their music, dealing with sadness and love and angst in their lyrics. The music was also characterized by particularly dramatic vocals which, at best, left the audience in an emotionally charged state, crying or screaming. These days, emo has been popularized and sent into the mainstream through bands like Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday and Saves the Day.

Emo music has even inspired its own subcultural style. Take your average Rites of Spring fan and you get someone who looks a lot like Weezer's Rivers Cuomo--nerdy glasses, vintage tees, cuffed jeans, Converse sneakers and slightly shrunken tops. Black hair and straight bangs, tight hoodies and thrift shop attire are also associated with emo. And while emo devotees are notoriously upfront about their feelings, instead of wearing their hearts on their sleeves, they tend to favor ironic slogans and band logos.

Lately, labeling someone as "emo" is something of a put-down, a stand-in for "overly emotional" or "melodramatic." The implication is that they are excessively moody and angsty, prone to crying jags and plagued by a love of bad poetry. Hot Topic even issued a patch that read, "cheer up, emo kid!" But for those who call themselves emo, the term means something more pure. At its core, emo is all about being upfront with your emotions. Or, as one "expert" defined it, "emo is like being Goth, but much less dark, much more Harry Potter." -- marni

Answer 2

AN EMO

Gawd

Anyway, it stands for emotional. Type of music. Cool Hair. Pretty boys.

It's cool that your daughter is such an individual at such a young age---let her be herself...just don't let her get too crazy

Answer 3

Try this, and then learn how to "google":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_(slang)

Oh, and yes, you are right to worry: "Some definitions of emo hold that a typical "emo person" is likely to inflict self-injury, most often by means of cutting, burning, or otherwise mutilating themself."

Answer 4

a emo is almost like a goth but the difference is that goths have bad lives and are always depressed and emos dont have bad lives and they're just kinda pretending being goth. but i think emos are just plain fake. emo also stands for emotional

Answer 5

emo is short for emotional

Answer 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhCFhsiwDEk watch this best explination about emo this documentery is a trailer to one being made by sony.