So yeah emo.. a swear word in some circles, but what does it really mean? I see emo kids all over the place and want to beat the shit out of them, but what exactly is this emo shit other than cutting and crying and writing in a blog?
Easy, guys! We don't want >>35 to cut himself. You know how he is when he gets upset.
We need the subject alive. Get the tranq guns!
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Anonymous2006-05-13 19:59
Whining about emofags is... well... emo.
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Anonymous2006-05-19 12:40
Is secretly being an emokid pathetic? At least I don't whine about how my life has no content cause I'm such an inverted little nerd.
Oops, I think I just made an angsty comment.
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Anonymous2006-05-19 13:43
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWLIIIING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIN
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Anonymous2006-05-19 14:53
by the way:
"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, fuck, 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.
[taken from urbandictionary]
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Anonymous2006-05-19 15:03
yo, emo-kids! maybe you guys would like to put-off being suicidal for a few minutes and help me with something.
I was wondering what would be the perfect emo name for blogs, profiles, etc. I has to drip EMO Quality so I can attract other emos, fool them thinking I'm one of you -then flame them or leave insulting comments. I have a checklist here of emo-approved words. Please add more so I can put them all together and make the perfect emo name!
Falling
Gray
Ember
Tears
Dreams
Funeral
Heart
Black
Sad
Cries