i keep hearing ppl talk about emo what is it?

Question

please dont be rude im a stay at home mom and dont get out much so its hard to keep up with the lingo and trends

Answer 1

It's just a stupid trend.

This is from Urban Dictionary.


"Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well ****, at least it's close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, ****, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."

Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.


Hope that helps.

Answer 2

the 3rd person who answered this stated it perfectly! short for EMOtional, its a trend, a blend between punk, goth, and alternative rock. The kids are into their "emotions" and it's cool to be sad/happy/depressed and express these emotions in any which way they can. My stepson is an emo kid and he has more female friends than i do! this puts him on the *cool* list. He takes his pants in at the inseam so that they're tighter and all the colors in his wardrobe are dark (brown, gray, or black.). He listens to My Chemical Romance among many other "emo" bands and Dashboard Confessional too. He grew his hair out so that it's in his face half the time.

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Answer 3

The "Emo" bands are fake Emo. All they do is mainly sing about some for of depression, since that is what Emo's feel. It is horrible music unless you like hte high pitched singing without a rythem to anything.

Answer 4

The kind of music My Chemical Romance makes. That's one example. But it's not a bad thing, I love MCR. Emo stands for emotional. In this case, the lyrics have deep meaning. And people who are labeled as "emo" are usually sad/depressed. Though I hate labels.

Answer 5

emo basically is like the shortened version of the word "emotional". It's a genre of music mostly with punk rock bands I think...like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, etc. who basically sing about broken hearts and angry emotions about ex-girlfriends, etc. Emo is also used to describe a person who is into rock and kinda acts all depressed. Hope you understand it now, hope i kinda helped!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

not all emo kids cut themselves it is manly bout expressig emotions (ie emotional music) through music that people may not be able to express through words in day to day conversations i listen to emo but i dont cut myself put lily allen or ***** cat dolls on and i may not live to tell you how depressing it is and emo music anit crap

Answer 8

ok emo means emotional rocker,
people class all emos together but there r 2 types...
type one- just emotional people who like rock music.
type 2- emotional rockers who slit there wrists!

Answer 9

What i individually dont get, how could they say that MCR is emo! they do no longer seem to be, in all of MCR's interviews with magazines, television exhibits or regardless of they're consistently denying they do no longer seem to be emo. i think slightly sorry for them, because of the fact they might desire to get slightly anoyed after a jointly as. ok, so the girl called herself emo, and he or she did no longer in basic terms hear to MCR, she hear to FOB, Linkin Park, P!ATD, so whats the entire factor of dropping the bomb on MCR? She could of been an fan of them, yet they nevertheless cant be blammed for this, its no longer genuine. She did this to herself, not one of the music she listened to by technique of any of those bands, had no undesirable indecations of death, or regardless of like that. i think she belived it grew to become into, which grew to become into style of stupid. She grew to become into slicing herself, and her father did no longer even do something, definitely you would be concered in case you had a daughter or son that grew to become into doing that, you does not enable them to circulate, i might in all probability deliver it up lots, and get her some therapy... something like that. She additionally had a combat along with her mothers and fathers that comparable evening, so a band, getting blammed for an ladies death is so stupid particularly. She hung herself off her bunk-mattress.. i think of, am i genuine? not sure, yet MCR should not be blammed, even while their songs are against Suicide, even while all lyrics have some which means, i think of their songs are awsome. whos with me on that one? MCR regulations. additionally, in a newspaper they clammed that the 'Emo Cult' belive once you die you visit the Black Parade, yet i think of this is over dramatic, dont you think of? and that they only positioned it in because of the fact one among their songs are approximately it.. Im no longer possibly specific on that newspaper article, yet it particularly is out of order. MCR regulations.

Answer 10

emo is short for emotional.emo people listen to sad rock songs and hate their life and are in a constant state of wanting to commit suicide and they dress like typical rockers most of them are middle to upper middle class white people who live pretty good lives but they are just so depressed and stuff and i really dont see why hope i helped you