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Quite possibly the most ridiculous concept ever concocted (emo shouldn't even be classified as a music genre, as "emo" doesn't actually exist).
Definition: A genre of music that was constructed under the pretense that "Pop Punk" (Pop punk being a complete paradox) was not faggy enough. Suburban teenagers who wanted to be "different" by crying and looking exactly like everyone they cry and hang out with (i.e. dyed black hair, jeans so tight that your tiny balls actually retract into the cavern from whence they dropped, the ever present "non conformist" Converse all star, piercings, scarves and anything purchased at a "Hot Topic" store), needed something else to cry about instead of their upper middle class "depression".
QUOTE: "I was soooo distraught yesterday... My dad wouldn't buy me tickets to the Dashboard Confessional show and I was so depressed I slit my wrists... Well, not all the way, I just wanted to show my parents that I don't want to live but I don't really want to die, I just want attention. That's why I wear this scarf in the summer and these black framed glasses even though I don't even need them to see. Anyway, I got blood on my new super tight girl jeans that I just bought and that depressed me even more? I was in such a dark brooding mood that I sat in my room and wrote poems about how hard my life is. Then my brother told me emo is for fags and pussies who don't know who they are then left with his girlfriend. What an asshole, he doesn't know how hard life is."
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Its kindof funny how so many fakes are out there now.
Saying they need to cut themselves everytime somone says that theyre gay.
True emos; Arent depressed all the time and can have fun.
They cut for good reasons,death,heartbreak,just pain.
Shop at hottopic because they know that store has a sense of style:)
And listen to music that people have never probably heard off,likee jefree star,uffie,medric droid. Yeh were cool and smexy.
Haha also emos joke around about sex ALOTlmao!
Use un-understandable phrases or words
like..yer,yew,cunt,douche and other words ^^
Fake-Uhm like they try to dress and over asssorize and listen to wimpy bAnds like afi and greenday. They are virgins,or atleast dont know what sex is,hah. Think they are cool just because they CUT!usually has stupid "emo layouts"Talk about sucicide too much.
well yeah,i just hate fake people.
Fake emo talking to a true emo.
Fake-So do you cut yerself?
True-Um do I know you?
Fake-No,but im emo and hangout with hottopic people.
True-Oh okay do yew know who jefree star is?
Fake-Oh yeah..hes a rapper.
True-No. Yer stupid and gay if you dont know who he is
Fake-IM NOT GAY! *cut cut,bangg!*
True-wow..
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"Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."
I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."
Now, onto the real definition.
In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.
Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well shit, at least it's close.
Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, f, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."
Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.
Hope that helps.
Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the "horrible pop rock" genre, not the emo genre.
Rites of Spring is emo
emo bands...Rites of Spring,
Jenny Piccolo
Jeromes Dream
Jets To Brazil
Julia
June Paik
Kaospilot
Kill Sadie
Kodan Armada
Knapsack
La Quiete
Life At These Speeds
Lincoln
Louise Cyphre
Love Like...Electrocution
Love Lost But Not Forgotten (also here)
Maximillian Colby
MeWithoutYou
Mihai Edrisch
Mineral
Minus The Bear
The Mock Heroic
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They are middle to upper class teens and young adults who wern't tuff enougf to make it as punkers and to much of a pussy to pull off goth. I think It's kinda like if punk and goth had a baby but the mother did drugs and drank the whole time she was pregnant and Emo is the result of that. It's a fad for bord kids hailling out of the suburbian empire who have to much money and time on their hands(I am sure it's not cheap to be a posser ) and feel like their not getting enoughf attention from mommy and daddy so as a result they love bask in their imaginary melodrama and create shit to pretend be depressed about so they can play the part of the missunderstood abused victim and go write in their blogs and tell the world how hard their life is.
They spend a lot of money to look the part I.E. greesy blacked out hair, body peirceings(sometimes fake)a goth style make-up job, jewlery, but then spend their time crying and whineing about how hard it is to be them and how they don't fit in with anyone and about how no one understands them and the way they feel about things and cry because no one loves them their not punk and their not goth neither group wants to claim it because it's so lame so they call themselfs "Emo".
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Sad, stupid people. This entire generation was created when a bunch of confused kids weren't sure if they wanted to be Goths, Punks, boyband fans, depressed, gay, women, or all of the above, and tried a bit too hard at each, leading to their massive and thorough failure as a generation.
Q: Why did the emo cross the road?
A: To get hit by the bus.
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A whiney teenager who is 'in touch' with his/her feelings. The mast majority live in the suburban life-style, but refuse to admit that they actually have a postive life.
Please, for the sake of humanity, get over yourself. You see that homeless man down the street? He has more reason to be an angsty emo than you ever will. You see that child in the burn hospital? He/she has more reasons to be 'emo' than you ever will in your entire life. Emos DON'T know what true pain is. Don't give me that, "Don't label me, I'm human!!", because you can just stop, right there. The majority of these 'emos' will cuss out a 'prep' in an instant. They cringe or are enfired with rage when they hear the word.
Please, for the sake of humanity, get over yourself. Emos obviously DON'T know what true pain is. "No one understands me"- trash.
You CAN'T forget to complain about your horrible life every chance you get, you get to do this twice as much if your parents are divorced. Idiot, almost half of American's population in marriages are divorced, suck it up. Don't forget to hate your life, and deny being emo. Say you're a "non-comformist" *which is complete trash, because dressing the excact same way and having your hair block at least a 1/3 of your face sure looks like the guy next to you*. As for girls, you can't forget to have to ratty-tatty hair that looks like a rat's nest, oh, and the chewing on the gold-chain fetish.-Don't forget to also write some cheesey-ass song lyrics that are the complete opposite of your life, and strum a cord or two on your guitar. There, now you're getting it! Also, make sure whenever people ask where you live, since they'll be SO concerned on why your life is, "hell", be sure to say, "the cracks of hell in which the light of life does not shine", "in a world where love and acceptance do not exist, only pain and hatred," or something along the lines of that.
-Swoop your head around every five seconds, considering the fact that you won't see; because sight is something that you will have to sacrifice in order to be a 'non-comformist'.
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emo has become a commonly used term which really degrades the real definition. For instance high schoolers who miss turning in their homework say they are going to become emo, if they break up with their girlfriends they are feeling suicidal, if they can't go anywhere for spring break they are going to cut their legs off. these are gross exaggerations that are often used mostly by non-emo high schoolers.
the definition of emo is someone (usually a teenager) who is depressed, suicidal, and self-mutilates. it really is no laughing matter, because alot of emo's kill themselves before they can get help, and heres a few facts just to clear things up; emo's are not goths, and they are not mello dramatic teens, often emos have seriously messed up worlds, and family lives. As weird as it sounds to the non emo the taking out all your aggression through cutting can be an amazing release.
Also, you often can't tell when you are in the presence of an emo, not the real emo's, they are the quiet kids who seem to have life all put together, or the ones everyone gave up on. being an emo is no joke, but hey that's just the opinion of a past emo.
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