What is emo?i dont know?

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What is emo?i dont know?

Answer 1

The term "Emo" is used as counterculture; it is an abreviation of the word "emotional". Emo it's defining not only an attitude, but also a fashion that are coming from emocore (emo music). Emocore is a combination between hardcore and punk music which was very popular in Washington DC in the late 80's. The emo culture continued to develop between '90 and '00, reaching the height of its popularity today.

The term for the teenagers who listen emocore is emo kids. The society thinks about them as failures; they are not strong enough to hide their emotions, they're sensitive, shy, introverted, and often quiet. Usually, Emo kids like to express their feeling writing poems about their problems with depression, confusion, and anger; all because the world fails to understand them. 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, and concern over the mutability of time, love or both. Themes such as life is pain are common. You can check some 'emo poems' on our forum! Altough life is already very hard for them, emo kids have to suffer for even more society prosecution because of their condition. The term 'emo' itself is used nowadays as an insult. Adressed to a person means they are 'overly emotional'. Emocore is compared with pop boy bands of 1990s. Critics cast the music as lacking any artistic merit and that the fashion is just ... a fashion used to drive girls attention. The ones who are emo not because they feel it, but because they like to be trendy are named 'posers'. A big percent of the current emo subculture is formed by posers. Emo subculture is acused that it is celebrating self-harm. As i've said before many fail to understand that those are only fake emos (rawrr you b******s, get away from here); actually i have no rights to judge them even if most of us suffer because of them.

This is what emo people usually tend to people look like, you may have seen one around.

http://www.luv-emo.com/images/emoboys/em...

Answer 2

some one who is overly emotional. cries a lot. cuts himself. that sort of stuff

Answer 3

Emo is a genre of music that originated from 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" has been used to describe the period).[citation needed]

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.

Answer 4

A goth on estrogen:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQIcdGg6...

Answer 5

Emotional.

Though its some "trend" going around.

so to me an emo person isnt really depressed.

they only act that way to be cool, and flow with whats in the mainstream.

theres more i could say, but its no use.

its really getting old.

Alot of people have their own views on "Emo".

Answer 6

A silly style adpoted by youth and twentysomethings.  They listen to depressing music, men wear makeup, and often like cutting themselves.

Answer 7

'Emo' stands for 'emotional' but now it seems to be about teenagers acting depressed all the time, and dying their hair black, straightening it and making it cover their faces. A lot of them also wear a lot of dark eye make up. Note: this is NOT the same as being a goth. Goths wear black lace and big clumpy metal boots. Emos wear black skinny jeans, converse trainers, black tshirts with their favourite band logo, and belts with metal studs. Also, lots of bracelets or black sweatbands. If ur british, think Newt from Hollyoaks.

oh, and to jaysonflame25dragon: if ur gonna copy and paste, at least state your source.that's plagiarism

Answer 8

Emo stands for emotional, they follow a certain genre of music called emotional rock. They generally have black or "out there" coloured hair with a large side fringe (usually long and covers their face). They act like they want to die all the time, how life is really unfair.

The sort of social scene they dabble in q***r, they love talking about suicide, death, dead people, ways to kill themselves, really depressive shitt.

We had a case in Australia where two emo girls made a death pact together and hung themselves in the bush (forest) together, pretty sick.

Not really the sort of crowd you'd want to be in, unless you dont want to be normal.

Answer 9

depressed person

Answer 10

Its short for emotional,

Some even go to the extent of self harm.

Answer 11

Ain't he on Sesame St

Answer 12

emotional. usually out of control emotional.

Answer 13

A music genre. That's all.

Its not the "wearing black c**p". Thats just a stupid stereotype and people who dress like that to be "emo" are just idiots. :]

Btw

"Goth" is NOTHING near " emo". Emo is fxcken stereottype. But "goth" is an actual culture. 'Goths" Aren't depressed, they actually have more of a life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSNiEs03a...

Though I hate to stereotype people.