What's Emo?

Question

Sooo everyone keeps saying: "Emo this, and Emo that...." What the hell is EMO????????

Answer 1

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 2

EMO is short for emotional.

EMO is a broad title that covers a lot of different styles of emotionally-charged punk rock. The EMO scene is alive and well in Houston,

Answer 3

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 4

emo is the man who live down the street in the garbage can. he dont hurt noone so i give him scraps and bottles to return to the liquor store. he used to be a precher i hear but the man got him hooked on horsesmack and he start nappin dogs to support his habit. he warnt the same wen he got out of the joint, but at least he dont shoot up no more. i feels sorry for him.

Answer 5

i guess you could say people that are depressed, wear all black, and slit their wrists