What's an emo?

Question

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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

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 3

Emo may refer to:

In music:

Emo (music), a genre of rock music
Emo (slang), a slang term used to describe a wide range of fashion styles and attitudes somewhat affiliated with emo music
Emo (album), an album by Screeching Weasel
"Emo", a song by Blink-182 from their Dude Ranch album
In business:

Emo (oil), an Irish oil company and filling station chain
Media:

How to be: Emo, an internet movie explaining the subculture of emo and emo music
Art:

Emo poetry, a style of poetry
Places:

Emo, County Laois, a town in the Republic of Ireland
Emo, Ontario, a town in Canada
Emo Speedway, a racetrack in Emo, Ontario
Emo's, a nightclub in Austin, Texas
People:

Emo Philips, an American stand-up comedian
Eric Moulds, wide receiver for the Houston Texans (formerly Buffalo Bills) (fan slang)
Keith Emerson, famed British keyboardist/pianist
Villa Emo, a 16th century villa by Andrea Palladio
Emo, a character in the movie Elephants Dream
EMO may stand for:

An abbreviation of given names like Emil and Emanuel
East Moriches, New York, a town in the United States, sometimes abbreviated to "EMO"
Electronic Money Order, a type of online currency, or eCurrency
Emergency Measures Organization, an agency of Canadian provincial government responsible for emergency preparedness
Emergency Machine-Off operation, more commonly referred to as an Emergency Power-Off
Extra Man Opportunity, a synonym for a lacrosse or hockey power play
Ericsson Mobile Organizer, a mobile (push) e-mail solution available on most popular phones
Educational Management Organization

Hopefully not more than you wanted to know!

Answer 4

Emo is short for emotional. An emo is a person who is very sensitive and emotional. They are often steryotyped as whiners, cutters, depressed and other things but thats not always true.

Answer 5

A Mexican Emu.

Answer 6

electro mechanical optimizer, a computer program to harvest the most efficient results from an integrated machinery operation

Answer 7

A flightless bird native to Australia

Answer 8

a marketing demographic.

Answer 9

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