Rock has evolved into so many different categories I can't keep up. What is emo and name some bands please

Answer 1

I don't think ANYONE knows what emo actually is, but here's the start of 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 2

i'm not getting started on this ****.

emo was a genre back in the day. it stood for emotionally aggressive hardcore. it was the ****. okay?

now you got people labeling themselves. it was never about a ******* label or a certain style. now it's pop-punk. there's no heart.

thank you little miss. read her answer for the REAL emo.

now it's about fall out boy and my chemical romance. that's pop punk and i'm glad all you teenyboppers eat it like pudding. that's what they want.

**** off cry me a river.

kids are so stupid now.... they've been tooken over by eMpTyV.

will you guys stop calling pop punk emo- you don't know what you're talking about and you look stupid.

POP PUNK BANDS THAT ARE NOT EMO:
fall out boy
my chemical romance
hawthorne heights
relient k
cartel
panic at the disco
good charlotte
ETC

the used is ******* screamo. which is very different from emo.


by the way slipknot is so emo they make me wanna put eyeliner on my cats.

Answer 3

Fugazi are not an emo band. Name one song by them about emotions.

Sunny Day Real Estate are the classic original emo band.

Nowadays the kids use the word "emo" to mean goth hipsters or anyone wearing eyeliner.

Answer 4

I don't know but i really hate the label emo. cause emo i thought was music from like the 80s and all but now people are saying i am emo because i am into armor for sleep, a change of pace, and because i like fall out boy but only for their music. people are just stupid these days lol.
♥Black Rose♥

Answer 5

all music is emo. rap, rock etc. its all driven by emotion, so saying that all these crap bands ( my chem, relient k, simple plan) are emo is a total lie. bc there pop punk. so really who cares about emo, yeah some musicans can express there feelings in different ways and sounds but it comes form the way you feel.

Answer 6

emo is when all the songs relate to how sad they are, or emotions. all the boys wear makeup, and wear tight pants. in response to someone else, no relient k isnt emo. they are christian rock. simple plan isnt emo either, just rock.
emo bands...
My Chemical Romance
Hawthorne Heights
The Used
Fall Out Boy

Answer 7

Emo is short for emotional. Emo music is emotional music.
Some emo is fast a screamo most is just standard.
A good example of an emo band is My Chemical Romance.
I'm not a big fan of the hole emo phenomenon or music but there you go.

Answer 8

From what i get from my daughter 'emo' is a nothing feels right.i'm depressed about life in general music. it may lead a little toward the punk of the 80's music.some of the bands are.. Dashboard confessional,Taking Back Sunday,Brighteyes .
all these are just really depressed people that aren't happy about anything and write songs about it.

Answer 9

Relient K, My Chemical Romance, Simple Plan, Daughtry, The Used

Answer 10

god! people here are naming bands like mcr and slipknot, that's not real emo good emo bands are ,chiodos, circle takes the square, drop dead gorgeous and orchid!!! even though they are all emocore and screamo bands its emo none the less!