Emo is a music genre where the bands talk about bad relationships, death, and self degrading issues like that. They express their sadness by cutting their wrists.
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Err, please don't call that stuff emo.  Emo is a whole other form of music, more closely related to punk, which basically died out in 95.  Think Rites of Spring.\n\nAbout the music you described, I guess everyone has their own tastes.
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Emo is a type of music that sucks badly. They are whinny bitch*s!\n\nHere is a short list of Emo Bands:\nalkaline trio\nandrew wk\nbrand new\nBoy Sets Fire\nBrand New\nCoheed & Cambria\nDashboard Confessional\nDenali\nElliott\nFairweather\nfurtherseemsforever\nfrom autumn to ashes\nGlassjaw\nhorse the band\nHot Rod Circuit\nJimmy Eat World\nMates of State\nMidtown\nMy Chemical Romance\nNew End Original\nNew Found Glory\non the might of princes\nPiebald\nPrevent Falls\nrecover\nRocking Horse Winner\nsaetia\nSaves The Day\nsmall brown bike\ntaking back sunday \nthursday\nYellowcard
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Easy: Misinformation. It's kinda long, but I was wanting to cover as much as I could.\n\nIt would seem even you are misinformed on the matter ;)\nEmo is only as deep as the music goes. Emo stands for "Emotive Hardcore", and is not related to many of the bands that are labeled "emo" by the mainstream today. If you want real emo, check up Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Get Up Kids, and early Jimmy Eat World (Pre-Bleed American). Jimmy Eat World changing style is the main reason there is a flawed view of what's emo in todays culture. AFI, FOB, Taking Back Sunday, etc. ARE NOT emo, but rather often alternative and such.\nEmo originally had nothing to do with the today's "scene-kid", but from the misinformation being spread wide by the media.\nThank you for letting me take a chance to spread this fact ;)\n\nNow the stereotyping on Scene-kids(for I refuse to call them emo). The name emo itself is degrading, many thinking it to mean "emotional"(but really meant Emotive Hardcore as explained earlier). This is associated with the cutting, whining, etc. as the extremely emotional kids did this. The bands too put out this image, with images such as blood(from an inferred slit wrist) dripping onto a love letter. I have no idea where the stereotypical view of bisexuals came into the emo world, but it does raise the question why a large number of bisexuals associate themselves with the scene-kid culture, and took a sudden rise with the gaining popularity of scene-kids.\n\nMyspace is another place where the stereotypes arrived. With the new cool thing to do being the scene-kid, people tried to impress any one who would view their profile by putting up blogs of their latest cutting experience(true or not), the hair-dos, bands, and imagery. Many people see their first scene-kids on myspace, and the myspace population seems to be filled with their influence. As we all know, myspace has millions of users, and almost all of them are being flooded with these stereotypical images, enforcing the image laid on scene-kids in many.\n\nWith this being said, it would best be yourself. Associate with what cultures you wish, and do as YOU think is cool, not considered cool. If people didn't try to fit in with the scene-kid image, I can guarantee the stereotypes wouldn't be so strongly enforced.\n\nThank you for reading, and hopefully this taught you on the history, and reasons of the stereotype on the culture. If you have any questions, on this culture, or other ones such as goth, feel free to ask me. I spend much of my free time thinking about, and researching cultures and stereotypes as they interest me greatly.\nG'day.
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oh emo means that u like rock, metal and cut urself , see i am a non hardcore emo cause i dont cut myself but i wear gothic clothes and stuff sometimes but its not really a diss
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Emo refers to a particular flavor of punk-alternative, a decent example being by the band Further Seems Forever. The term Emo comes from Emotional... because the music is meant to create or extract deep, "mind-fucking" emotions from the listener.
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i 100% agree with Cheese Ranger...depression isn't a fad. emo doesnt mean that you're a poser or faking depression, or are depressed. all emo is is just a word. just like punk,goth,prep...so on and so forth. depression has nothing to do with being emo, or being a wrist slitter...and it's not just "emo" kids and teenagers that are depressed...many many adults are too
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You are not alone. Back in my day Emo was a comedian :/
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yes.. emo comes from emotional
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What is classified as Emo music is completely different from the real genre. Emo means Emotionally Charged Hardcore Punk. It has now turned into Indie/Screamo/Punk. But ya the lyrics are pretty weird sometimes.....
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yeah, it stems from a type of music thats supposed to be very "stream of consciousness" and emotional. which is where the name comes from. \n\nits typically accompanied by a certain fashion too. the haircuts that are kinda hanging in your eyes, that you make sure your hair looks like you dont care how your hair looks. and when guys wear jeans that are skin tight, right down to the ankle. i work at a music store, and i know a kid who actually borrows his sisters pants. \n\nbut modern emo isnt really the same as what emo started as. its mostly rich white kids that are complaining about not being popular or not getting enough hugs as a kid.
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Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music. Since its inception, emo has come to describe several independent variations, linked loosely but with common ancestry. As such, use of the term (and which musicians should be so classified) has been the subject of much debate.\n\nIn its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe the music of the mid-1980s DC scene and its associated bands. 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 literally emotional during performances. 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.
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Emo   \n \n Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle.\n\n\n"indie" is an abbreviation of "independent"; it means music that is published by an independent record label (not owned by a "big" label)
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Emotional Rock.\n"White middle-class kids whining" is the usual definition given.\n---\n Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle. \n---\nThat definition was from urbandictionary.com.  Link below.  There are over 700 definitions for emo there.  (They are rather subjective though...)
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I understand where you're coming from, my mom is basically clueless to the teen styles/social classes. EMO is short for emotional. at an age of changing hormones and fighting to fit in, if ppl don't find a place in the social chain where they can fit in, then they often start to block out alot of the world around them and try to seek shelter inside their mind hoping somehow they'll find a friend. EMO kids usually wear kind of a mix of rocker/punk/goth clothing but not full strand to either one. like a typical emo kid would prolly have a black shirt sporting a heavy metal band or just skulls flames and stuff like that, dark colored jeans usually tight, wristbands to their elbows, spikey dyed hair, and other dark colored accessories. hope after you get through decoding all of my ramblings that this helps.
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powerpop/rock or emo idk  u said 2 be spesific like head automatica or cartel or AFI for more serous stuff idk
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It depends. Do you like the tight pants? Do you like the idea of death/dying? Do you put a lot of emphasis on pain, esp. from romance?\n\nIF you said yes to at least one, the i believe you to be emo.\nIf not, and its just the music for some reason, you're just liking the band and not other aspects, leaving you somewhat like an emo poser.\n\nYou are who you choose to be.
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A quote by Chelsea on Mar 2, 2005\n\nI found this here http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo\n\n"""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."\n\nI 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."\n\nNow, onto the real definition.\n\nIn 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.\n\nOften, 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.\n\nSince 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."\n\nSomehow, 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.\n\n\nHope that helps.\nTaking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the "horrible pop rock" genre, not the emo genre.\n\nRites of Spring is emo.""\n\nEnd Quote\n\n\nHere is another good site.\n\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/emo/origin/main.html