Hey....WHAT is "EMO"?????

Question

Whats it mean to be emo? How do you dress? Do guys wear chick pants and act all fruity? What statement are you emo's trying to make by calling yourselves emo?

If EMO was a parasite what Trend would be its Host??

Answer 1

goth, punk.. which you wear black clothing and almost everything black

Answer 2

You cant spell emo without homo

Answer 3

I'm not "emo" but my sister is.  I'm having problem with her cause she sometimes slit her wrist,as she said, the reason for doing so is because its the "emo's" way of showing their negative emotion. EMO is a short term for EMOTIONAL.

Answer 4

wow...ummm emo to me is just a name for a type of clothing or style that people wear

its like saying I'm dark without being gothic. i guess.

thast what it means to me at least

Answer 5

If emo was a parasite, goth and punk would be its hosts.

Answer 6

its a person who hates themselves and they have knives and slice theirselves with it 2 feel alive, they feel like nobody likes them

trust me dont be emo

Answer 7

Emo (pronounced /ˈiːmoʊ/) began as a style of hardcore punk.[1] It has since come to describe several variations of music with common roots and associated fashion and stereotypes. In the mid-1980s, the term emo described a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated in the Washington, D.C. music scene. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the emotional performances of bands in the Washington, D.C. scene and some of the offshoot regional scenes such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and later, Moss Icon. (In more recent years, the term "emotive hardcore" entered the lexicon to describe the period.)

Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to refer to 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 had a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic. 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 mainstream style. As a result, the term "emo" became a vaguely defined identifier rather than a specific genre of music.[citation needed]