What is the style "EMO"?

Question

My sis talks about going EMO, and I have no idea what shes talking about lol, Any tipsters out there??? :) xox

Answer 1

umm well emo stands for "emotional" and its like when you dress and or abuse yourself because your emotions so its sorta like for exampl some girl slitting her wrists and comeing to school with a ton of black make up and clothing black punkish while goth is just like black clothing kinda scary lookin... hope this helps.

Answer 2

Emo fashion is usually defined to have roots in punk fashion as well as gothic fashion. By almost all current definitions, emo clothing is characterized by tight jeans on males and females alike, long fringe (bangs) often brushed to one side of the face, dyed black hair, tight t-shirts which often bear the names of rock bands, studded belts, belt buckles, Chuck Taylor All-Stars or other black shoes - often old and beaten up - and thick, black-rimmed glasses. Emo fashion has changed with time; early trends included haircuts similar to those worn by the Romulans and Vulcans in Star Trek, tightly fitting sweaters, button-down shirts, and work jackets (often called gas station jackets). This has fallen out of fashion nowadays.

Answer 3

"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 4

Emo doesn't always mean wearing black.. Emo is when you're really hardcore into the music and have the look to go with it. So if your sister has to announce she's going emo, she's a poser!

Answer 5

NO WAY!!!!! Do not let her do it. Is she serious??? EMO... Well the first thing that comes to mind is wrist cutters. They cut their wrist or body to realse any pain that they are feeling, emotionally. They usually wear a lot of black, gothic looking stuff. But not all Gothic looking people are EMO.

Answer 6

Ummm, EMO is short for emotional people, which are people that cut their rists becuase they have issues and problems in their life, Emo people dress kind of punk and with dark eye make-up and colored hair. Hope I helped!

Answer 7

emo is short for emotional. umm...being emo is like they listen to punk rock or something and they dress kind of punkish. idk...i think that's what it means. here look at this website. actually type in "definition of emo" in the yahoo search thingymajigger...and it should say "What the heck is Emo anyway?" hope this helps!

Answer 8

its kinda like gothic skater punk rock typa thing. It looks really good on some people

Answer 9

mostly black clothing and cutting wrists to release pain, its not a good idea don't let her do it.

Answer 10

kinda gothic/punk. think.. . some kid saying "life is pain," while slitting his wrists.