what excatly does EMO mean?

Question

like i know it means emotional and all but like everyone at my school calls me emo and i don't think that i am. i have nothing against emo ppl. i love hot emo boys but i don't excatly what and who you would classify it as?? do not take this question the wrong way please don't! i am just curious. please help me out if you have nething!! thank you sooo MUCH!

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo

That will have everything you need to know.

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Answer 2

The origins of emo
'Emo' was first used around the mid-1980s in Washington, DC, where American punk rock bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace would become spontaneously emotional during what had previously been traditionally aggressive performances. Hence the emo tag (short for 'emotional') started to get used.

This scene grew in the '90s due largely to the breakthrough success of 'emo-core' heroes Fugazi, but by the new century, the term emo was being associated with more commercial punk-pop acts such as Jimmy Eat World, although none of these bands were willing to define themselves as emo.

Emo today
In the last couple of years, whether by a genuine sub-cultural movement or just some very clever image marketing by record companies, emo has become a teen cultural phenomenon as Goth was in the '80s and grunge was in the '90s.

As with grunge, it is very hard to define the actual common attributes that the bands in this so-called scene share. However it is safe to say the most popular bands associated with emo today, such as AFI, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At the Disco and Fall Out Boy, do loosely share a pop-punk sound, melancholy, overwrought lyrics delivered in a high-pitched, theatrical fashion, not to mention a stylist who only learnt to cut hair so that it covers a third of the face at an angle and advised against regular shampooing.

Answer 3

Everyone says that it means emotional, but I think it actually stood for something else, but I can't even remember what it is. It's actually a genre of music though, and it's like a genre that came from punk rock. I get labeled emo all the time too, and it's annoying, because I'm not emo, I'm just myself, of course not saying that there's anything wrong with being emo if that's what you want to be.

Answer 4

A word of many uses, emo generally describes:
A) A genre of music
B) Style of fasion
C) Lifestyle/subculture


Short for the term emotional...in a musical sense.

Can be used to describe a person who listens to emo, can relate to most of it and then cry because they can relate to it and not just because its emo.

Answer 5

The "emo" we know now isn't the "emo" that started back in the 80's. And yeah that wikipedia page will give a lot of info.

Answer 6

seriously i'm just as curious i think initially it means emotional but ppl made it - especially high school ppl and middle school ppl- made itno a premature gothic or something. Honestly if someone had emotional problem I HIGHLY doubt that they will wehere black and wear heavy black makeup - which attracts so much attention to them- I honestly think "emo" is what ppl try to use to stand out or get attention. Its really sad honestly, that someones has to be like THAT.. just to get attention or something.

Answer 7

good question...lol i dont think anyone really knows the boundaries to being classified as being emo...its more like guidelines anyway....

Answer 8

it's short for Emotional based rock. That's what i heard.

Answer 9

Aren't we tired of all the EMO crap yet? Geez!

Answer 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nRNYG_xM2U