Would someone please explain...?

Question

what the hell is EMO? what does it mean? where did it come from?

Answer 1

emo mean emotional usally associated w/ emo music and a lifestyle where people are uslually depressed and it is believed that ALL emos cut there selves but the dont only some.

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

The term emo originated in the 1980s to describe a genre of music stemming from the hardcore punk music scene in Washington, D.C. Early bands labeled emo (or sometimes emocore) in this scene included Rites of Spring, Embrace, and Fugazi.[2][4][5] The term emo as a music genre has become broader and broader with time, and now is loosely understood to mean "rock music with emotionally-based lyrics or effect." Bands included in the genre range from Bright Eyes to The Get Up Kids to Sunny Day Real Estate. The term is so loosely defined because its definition is still the subject of debate.[1][2][4] Emo now often refers to a person's fashion, personality, or both, as well as the music genre.


Fashion
Emo fashion is usually defined to have roots in punk fashion as well as gothic fashion.[3] 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.[1][2][6][7][8][9] 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.[6]


Typical male "emo hair": Long fringe (bangs) brushed over one eye with short hair in the back




Caricature of stereotypical emo fashion




Beaten up Chuck Taylor All-Stars typical of emo fashion




Gif animation of male emo hair, used in Instant messaging clients and as signatures in internet forums






Personality
When referring to a person's personality and attitude, most definitions of emo hold that an "emo person" is candid about their emotions, sensitive, shy, introverted, broken-hearted, glum, and often quiet.[7][10] Emo personality is also often connected with writing poetry, which addresses confusion, depression, loneliness, and anger, all resulting from the world's inability to understand the author.[3] Emo poetry uses a combination of any of: a highly emotional tone, stream of consciousness writing, a simple (ABAB) or nonexistent rhyme scheme, references to the flesh, especially the heart, heavy use of dark or depressing adjectives, concern over the mutability of time and/or love, and disregard for punctuation, grammar, and/or spelling. Themes such as life is pain are common.[11]

Some definitions of emo hold that typical "emo persons" are likely to inflict self-injury, most often by means of cutting, burning, or otherwise mutilating themselves. [3][10] Some assert that it is cool within the emo subculture to pretend to be suicidal and self-harm,[12] or that participants self-harm purely for personal enjoyment.[13]

Emos are also stereotyped to use depressing Internet screen names within straight edge X's, often using ironic sloganry, a poetic sense or cliché (eg. xmourningafterx).[9]


Criticism
In the years since emo music's rise in popularity, both emo music and emo subculture have attracted sometimes severe criticism.[13] The term emo itself is sometimes used pejoratively, to suggest that the target is "overly emotional."[7] Emo in general has been characterised as a fad which will be discarded and forgotten in the near future.[12] Emo music has also been compared to the teen pop of 1990s boy bands.[12][14] Critics cast the music as lacking any artistic merit, the fashion as "embarrassing" and members of the subculture as imagining or pretending that they lead harsh, painful lives when they actually live in comfortable, upper- to middle class homes.[12] Members of the emo subculture are portrayed by critics as melodramatic, self-pitying teenagers who pour their efforts into writing bad poetry and spending a great amount of time on MySpace.[13][12][15] The current emo subculture has been called a "sad caricature" of what it once was.[13] Critics have gone so far as to contend that the emo subculture or emo music are likely to cause youth to commit suicide.[3][12] The backlash against emo music and subculture has become so prevalent that it may itself have become a cliché: one commentator notes that "hating emo kids these days is as hackneyed as emo itself."[13]


Grammatical usage
The word emo can be used as either a noun or adjective.[7][10]

Adjective (1): All my friends are emo.
Adjective (2): I feel emo today.
Noun: That person is such an emo.


References in popular culture
Skype, an online communications application, comes standard with an "emo" emoticon with black hair and long fringe.[16]
In September of 2002, web developer Jason Oda created Emogame. The game pokes fun at numerous emo stereotypes and musicians.[17]
Hot Topic has issued a patch that reads "Cheer Up, Emo Kid!"[7]
Vans has issued a T-shirt bearing an image of emo fashion marked with a no symbol, captioned with "Don't Get Emo."[18]
Released in 2004, the short film How to Be: Emo is a satirical instructional film which teaches teenagers how to be emo. The film quickly beame an internet phenomenon, earning cult status within weeks.[19]
Mad TV also screened a parody of the popular children's toy Tickle Me Elmo, advertising a product called "Tickle Me Emo" that utters stereotypical emo phrases.[20]

Answer 2

O Sikander, O Sikander O Sikander, Jhaank Le Jhaank Le Apne Dil Ke Andar from Corporate

Answer 3

emo is short of Emotional. Just look at my user name
a person who is emotional a lot.
generally most emos will cut their wrists to ease the pain of their real lives.. it's a way for emos to deal with problems really.
There is emo music.
Emo people dress sort of like goth but not as extreme- short hair (girls and guys) and usually black or redish. Skinny jeans, converse shoes, black or really really really dark clothes, eyeliner (of course!), dark glasses.
It's a feeling really, kind of a lifestyle- it's really a way of expressing one's feelings.
i don't know what else to say cuz it's hard to write it all out.... go search it on wikipedia or google or something. idk what else to write about it

Answer 4

emo is emotional that means you cut urself because ur life sucks and u think it will help with ur pain but its stupid to me cuz i like cry wen i gets a papercut n they like ouch it hurts so good but i dont know were it came from its older than me

Answer 5

EMOtional ~ describes a persons feelings

Answer 6

it comes from the word EMOTIONAL. i dont exactly kno where that comes from but i guess its safe to say LATIN.

it means a person who is very emotional.

Answer 7

OMG ! They are emotional ! And if you hurt their feelings they will cut themselves and write a sad poem about it.
Hell, if you hurt me I'd rather cut you and write a sad song while I'm sitting in my cell.
hahahahaha

Answer 8

its means you're emotional. it turned into a label :'( people who are really emotional. they cut them selves. they cry. sad people? im not trying to label and judge just trying to explain :)

Answer 9

emotional, its a fad. the new goth. they are teenagers who are "depressed" and like to write poetry about being "depressed". they also listen to depressing music so they can cut themselves and cry...

Answer 10

I don't know...I've heard emotional and I've heard goth....all too much for me to worry about

Answer 11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28slang%29