who do people like emo? emo is not music.it is tight jeans and meaningless lyrics?

Question

i dont understand why everyone is like on the emo bandwagon. there are about a handful of semi-tolerable emo bands but most of them are too concerned with how tight they can wear their jeans. i also dont get why people like fall out boy. eww. they sold out. like seriously SOLD OUT. music is deteriorated today to a point where most artists are more concerned with their looks rather than the message. lol. i love screamo though so long as its not mindless crap their screaming. so i would like to know why people listen to emo. its so depressing. is it just so they can get the swoop?

Answer 1

Oh come-on emo is now a genre like anything else. It will eventually have a section in wal-mart That's the way it is... I can see once hating it for it's repetative lyrics and bass lines but... It's gone beyond indie and the good old underground days, and is now mainstream. Hate it now for finding a place on every music station, top forty and eventually golden oldies radio station.

Answer 2

Emo -was- about the music.. now it's just.. a scene...and they care about their looks and their image more (just like you said) and the music went down the drain and every freakin song they make is about the same thing. They all sound alike. Except .. some more "better" than others... The -old/original- emo bands were good... just.. today .. emo is used in.. the wrong way.. and I dont get why people love MCR... they try too hard to be "dark" and what not... they WERE good BEFORE they turned big... FOB is.. lame...they just "look emo" and the next thing you know when there's a new "scene" going on... all these offended "emos" are gonna jump the bandwagon again.

Answer 3

ok, im pretty offended by your question, but heres a decent answer:
people who say that their emo, if you havent noticed, are MOSTLY posers
if they are concerned about their clothes sooooooooooo much, than i can almost guarentee their not emo, cuz working your *** off just to find the "tightest pants" is absolutely STUPID
i have real emo friends, and clothes arent one of their utmost top priorites

now, to the bands
first of all, fall out boy is not an emo band
many people say that, but it just isnt true, and to even say that fall out boy is an emo band is pretty insulting
and if you have ever listened to true emo songs, they are far from shallow
their songs are deep and "EMOtional", and that is why they are called "EMO"
tell me, have you ever listed to the emo band "from first to last"?
now THATS a band that has true emo songs and deep lyrics, unless youre too shallow to understand them, like most people are these days

but i do agree with your depressing point
most emo bands sing depressing songs, but then again, thats why most bands sing: to just let it all out and let others know how they feel, unile some stupid artists who sing friggin sex/love songs all day
but, also, lots of emo songs describe love in a way that is more "real" and possibly mature than described in rap, pop,etc

Answer 4

I have to start out with this post/question is makeing you sound like a complete fool. Emo is a genre of music from the 80's not Fall Out Boy. And i listen to Emo and Rock/pop such as fall out boy because i like the music and some of the "Emo" music is a release of emotions and gives me my own little world to forget myself in.
♥Black Rose♥

Answer 5

Don't know... In my high school days ('82-'86) 'emo' as it is called now was a very underground type of thing. The bands were definitely NOT the popular thing, therfore the kids I knew who liked this style (who were few, as opposed to all over the place) liked it because it was legitimately who they were, not because they were just tying to follow the latest thing. I always believe that if someone is going to 'claim' a certain style or way of life for themselves, look into the past and respect who you are trying to be, otherwise don't bother, get a haircut and shave, and just be a normal kid.

Answer 6

emo is certainly not just tight pants and "meaningless" lyrics. emo short for emotional- there are alot more emotions than just sad or depressed. if you honestly think that lyrics in emo songs are meaningless then your prob just not smart enough to understand them. a lot of people just think emo music is about killing or whatever. but a true emo (ie- myself) knows that that is certainly not the case. most emo songs are telling the honest truth about love, unlike superficial rap and r&b. take the song "not good enough for truth or cliche" by escape the fate. most people would listen to that and think its just about him killing a girl, but its really about him and the girl he loves not being able to be together, so theyd rather die together than not be together. and what is the difference between screamo and emo, same lyrics, just different vocals oi

Answer 7

I do not really like emo music, because really it i sjust REALLY pop-ish soft rock. I do hate how people who are so "Agiainst" labels go and label themselves. I do not think all emo music has bad lyrics. Just the style in which they sing it I do not like. I love indie, metal, and some alternative. From Under The Cork Tree was freaking awesome. Infinity On High is overplayed pop garbage.

Answer 8

Different people have different tastes of music.You can't stop people from liking what they like.I personally don't like emo music, like screamo and songs about cutting yourself and stuff.Emo was music before it became a lifestyle.
And Fall Out Boy rocks.I don't understand why people think they're emo.They don't scream or wear eyeliner and dress up with make-up and stuff-they don't wear tight jeans, they're just a normal ROCK band.

Answer 9

Emo is not what is played on MTV. It's not My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy or Panic! At the Disco. Those bands are alternative or pop/rock. It's not about angsty teenagers wearing eyeliner, crying or cutting themselves either. That's what people think is "emo" today. That's what people have been brainwashed to think. And I don't believe in using the term "sell out." If you don't like a band after they got popular, okay. That's your business. But if you can't accept maturing and changing, than I guess you would use that term. All of those bands that people think are emo are not. They are grown men with real lives so I doubt they cry daily and slit their wrists and wear tight jeans everyday. Fall Out Boy just matured and changed a little bit. They gained more fans, and their old "fans" just got jealous and stopped liking them. This is real emo:


Emo is a genre of rock music. Since its inception, emo has come to describe several independent variations of music, linked loosely but with common ancestry. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate.

In its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated in the Washington, DC music scene of the mid-1980s. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and, slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.

Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason put forth a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic in nature than its predecessor. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles.

As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture. Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music.

Answer 10

This is how I look at it....I may not like it, but some one out there does and so there fore it is not meaningless. No one should ever tell anyone what they can listen to because the differences in us are what makes the world go round. And Fall Out Boy has a couple really cool tunes that are far from depressing.