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i believe that the deffinition of emo is a person not afraid to express themselfs. not affraid to be different. doesnt care what other people think. will dress however they want. personaly, i believe that generally, emo people tend to be more attracting...in an odd way. normally emo's tend to either have black, brown, or multicolored hair. some emo's have bright blonde or white hair. they have scene hairstyles, dark eyeliner, and lots of makeup (normally).
there is another deffinition to emo (i think) that is people who are really depressed & cut themselfs. they tend to dress darkly and dont talk much. when they do, they bite your head off
girl 1: aww look at her hair! isnt it awesome? i want hair like that!
girl 2: she's emo!
girl 1: so? her hair is still awesome!
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Emo is NOT short for emotional and it has nothing to do with how you dress or wear your hair. It is, in FACT, an insult word created by punks in the 80's to call the guys in emotive hardcore punk bands. Unless you are in one of those bands, you are NOT emo, and never will be. Emotive hardcore music wasn't even just about being sad and depressed and hating yourself. Sure, some songs could be about that, but they could also be stupidly happy. The difference between emotive hardcore and regular punk is that emotive hardcore had more feelings incorporated into the music. The only reason why some people think that wearing eye liner and side bangs or cutting yourself makes you emo is mainly because of stores like Hot Topic, but guys in emotive hardcore bands wouldn't be caught dead dressed like that. If you cut yourself, then you have a problem and you should get help, but don't call yourself emo. Cutting and other forms of self-mutilation have nothing to do with the word "emo". Just because you have problems in your life and you cry a lot doesn't mean you're emo either. Also, don't tell other people that you're emo because A: you're not and B: you just make yourself look like a whiny and ignorant person who can't handle your own shit.
Stupid person: I'm so emo! lol I have sidebangs and I wear wayyy too much eyeliner :). I also rawr and think I'm a dinosaur! My pants are hella tight and I cut myself with sharp things because I hate myself :O
Smart person: Fail.
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Emo's, usually adorned in faggot-styled, tight-ass, black clothing, often have various piercings and jet black hair. They rant on and on about their pathetic lives, and they sometimes cut themselves.
Emo Conversation:
XxTearsOfBlOODxX: God, I fuckin' hate life.. It's a drag....
XXXD34TH666XXX: I hear you...
XxTearsOfBlOODxX: *gets a razorblade and proceeds to cut away at his boney-ass wrist* AH, FUCK!!!!
XXXD34TH666XXX: I could use some cutting.. right about now. I HATE life!! Nobody listens!!!!!!!!
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A bunch of mamby pamby spoon-fed fuckin fruitcakes that most people wanna kick in the back of the neck.
When shopping at the mall all i saw was a bunch of fuckin emasculated suburban emo kids talking on thier cell phones.
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emo is just another stereotype. It's stupid, it's uncalled for. People think that because the guys wear makeup, and nailpolish and they wear skinny jeans, and band shirts that,and their hair covers their eyes, "oh, they must be emo".Then the girls come along, and they're wearing skinny jeans, and they're bangs are covering some of their faces, with the weird black makeup and nailpolish, you think emo, and when people think of emo, they think, wrist slitting, people hating, depressed, anti-social rejects that never have any fun. But just because they look different from you AEO wearing, preppy airheaded hoes, that they have to be bastards, or bitches, or dykes or any other nasty name you can pull out of your vocabulary, they are not socially acceptable. The "preppy" people CANT under ANY circumstance be seen walking anywhere with an emo kid. It's stupid. They're people like you. Granted, they look different. Who really cares? I bet that if you were to actually try and talk to one of them, and be sincere, you'd find out that,(NO WAY!) not all of them slit their wrists(I know some preppy people who do, so that's just stupid to attach only to "emo")not all of them are depressed, and they're all alot of fun.But if you're still going to be your narrowminded preppy whore,and choose to still have a problem with everyone who dresses different, keep it to yourself.We dont want to hear it.
prep: hey whats up guy?
emo: ehh not much.
prep: theres no one at my house this weekend, why dont we grab a bunch of our friends and have a "partayy" haha.
emo: sure why not?
prep: thats awesome. see you this weekend!
emo: yeah! cant wait haha.
this conversation actually happened, 2 of my friends, one emo, one not, and see? nothing bad happened to the preppy girl. they all went to their party, a mix of emos, preps, and jocks, and none of them were "tainted" by the emo kids.
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Someone who whines about their suburban lifestyle and claims nobody "understands".
At the same time they go around crying and for some reason wondering why they have no friends besides other emos.
This emo kid named Jerry wonders why he has no friends as he goes around cutting himself while wearing his sister's jeans.
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Emo may refer to:
A genre of rock music
A slang term used to describe a wide range of fashion styles and attitudes somewhat affiliated with emo music
The music:
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. At first, 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 perormances. 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 influenes of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Teas 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 th remaining indie emo bands entered the maintream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the name 'emo' within popular culture. Whereas, even in the past, th 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. There were three main waves of emo music, the first involving bands like: Embrace, Rites Of Spring, Moss Icon, Nation Of Ulysses, Dag Nasty, Soulside, Shudder To Think, Fire Party, Marginal Man and Gray Matter. The second wave involved bands like: Sunny Day Real Estate, Boy's Life, Cap'n Jazz, The Promise Ring, Braid, Elliott, Bright Eyes, Cursive and The Get-Up Kids. The third wave of emo (current) involves bands like: Dashboard Confessional, AFI, Alexisonfire, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Coheed And Cambria, Death Cab For Cutie, Fall Out Boy, From First To Last, Funeral For A Friend, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Senses Fail, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story Of The Year, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, The Used and Underoath.
My opinion is that the majority of these third-wave bands are influenced by emo, but they are not completely emo in themselves. I refuse to get into arguments with anyone over this, so don't even think about it.
The slang term:
Emo is a somewhat ambiguous, controversial slang term most frequently used to describe a fashion or subculture which is usually defined to have its roots in punk fashion and subculture, as well as some attributes of gothic fashion and subculture. By almost all current definitions, emo clothing is characterized by tight jeans on males and females alike, long fringe often brushed to one side of the face, dyed black, straightened hair, tight t-shirts which often bear the names of rockbands, studded belts, belt buckles, Converse All-Stars, skate shoes, or other black shoes - often old and beaten up - and thick, black rimmed glasses.
This is NOT my opinion of what emo is, but this is the 'stereotypical emo kid', so to speak. I believe very firmly that you don't need to look exactly the same as the person mentioned above to be considered 'emo'.
When referring to a person's personality and attitude, many people think that emo people are honest about their emotions, sensitive, shy, introverted, broken-hearted, glum, and often quiet.
Some definitions of emo hold that typical emo people are likely to inflict self-injury, most often by means of cutting, burning, or otherwise mutilating themselves (well that just has BULLSHIT written all over it, doesn't it?). Emos are also stereotyped (so, therefore, not my opinion again) to use depressing Internet screen names that sometimes contain straight-edge X's, often using ironic sloganry, a poetic sense or cliché. In the years since emo music's rise in popularity, both emo music and emo subculture have attracted sometimes severe criticism. The term 'emo' itself is sometimes used pejoratively, to suggest that the target is "overly emotional." Emo in general has been characterised as a fad which will be discarded and forgotten in the near future (OK, maybe it's a fad, but it's a frickin' AWESOME one while it lasts...I <3 it).
Don't come whining to me if you disagree, 'cause I couldn't care less. I am sick and tired of hearing people say things like "Oh that's so emo" or "She's such a poser". I've had it. People can dress and act however they want, and they can listen to whatever music they want. If you still refuse to see the truth and carry on with your incredibly ignorant point of view, fine, think what you want, but you can't change us. Thank you for your patience.
We are who we are. If you have a problem with emo people, but don't have the guts to say it to our faces, I suggest you shut your mouths right now. Just remember that every time you criticise us, it won't make any difference. We're too far gone, and we never gave a damn about what you thought anyway.
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