is emo a direct music evolution from boy bands?
347000
Emo is nothing more than GOTH music which has been around since the early 1980's, I don't know why its name was changed
707303
Eh, nobody can agree. Purists think it came from the lead singer of Fugazi eons ago (you know, in the late eighties) and the New emos think it's sold at Hot Topic. Good luck with your definition...hoo boy.
578934
Every guy has his own flavor.... but to be true the whole theory of "emo"  he's probably looking for an artist of sorts.  A painter or a writer maybe.  \n\nTake it from a girl who's dated tons of emo boys while wearing an abercrombie shirt.  It's not what you wear, it's who you are...\n\ngood luck.
698587
emo is a type of music and thats all. but people decided it should be added to the long list of stereotypes that already exist. and no matter how much you wish it would end, its not going to.....because everyone stereotypes and everyone is stereotyped....thats just the way it works. the problem is that too many people let it get to them. and until they can get over it and care less about what other people think then its not going to get better.
666519
Hey everybody....what's up with EMO?
286918
Emo is a term for emotion based music.  Lots of angsty hurtness, you know?  I like it.  There's also screamo, which I'm definitely not a fan of.  It's emotion based "you broke my heart, I wish I was dead inside" mixed with metal-ish screaming.  Not my thing.
564605
grunge, rap, later on boy bands.
306922
because there emo emo is where men where clthing like girls but they are not gay.
515146
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.
1177463
well most girls no.I mean if they cant get through a hawthorne heaights album without sobbing then no.But I wouldnt mind a guy that was emo cuz then that would mean we both got our problems.And the emo guy would have to be hot too.But really most girls dont like it cuz they think being emo is all crying and wearing black but there's more to it.Plus emo guys tend to be way deeper then the other preppy guysl
700484
There's a lot of people who listen to emo out there. I drove by my old high school the other day, and saw a legion of emo kids in horn-rimmed glasses and too-tight concert tees, so that's not particularly special or unique.\n\nMaybe this sounds a little pessimistic, but I don't think many of us are special. Unique, maybe--we're all just humans, we each have our own little quirks and whatnot, but that in no way makes us special or any better than anyone else. Special people are the ones that make history, the ones that cure diseases, the ones that create art that's talked about for centuries.
1105290
Most people in this question has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. I'm not going to go into too much more detail, but emo does not mean emotional. Emo is not Fall Out Boy, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Hawthorne Heights, Dashboard Confessional, etc. They are pop bands nothing more. You don't listen to emo, and I'm willing to bet that you never have. Emo is style of hardcore music that is short for emotive hardcore. It originated in Washington D.C. It is widely regarded that the bands Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, and few others started it in the mid 80's. Rites of Spring being one of the best and most well known. They took their music in a more personal direction with a far greater sense of experimentation. Emo bands aren't on major record labels either. Emo is anti-corporate. It's what defined the bands, and it's what still defines those bands today. You will never find an emo band on Vagrant, Geffen, Drive-Thru, etc. Those bands aren't emo, and never will be.\n\nIf you want real emo check out:\n\nYaphet Kotto\nPolicy Of Three\nPortraits Of Past\nHeroin\nAntioch Arrow\nGlass And Ashes\nPlanes Mistaken For Stars\nOrdination Of Aaron\nCurrent\nSaetia\nHot Cross\nCircle Takes The Square\nA Day In Black And White\nFour Hundred Years\nSinaloa\nThey And The Children\nHow To Beat A Dead Horse\nAmpere\nAppleseed Cast\nRites of Spring\netc.\n\nIf you actually take the time to listen to these bands, you will see that it is the vocals and music that makes a band emo, not lyrics. And band such as Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, and Hawthorne Heights, do not have those musical and vocal characteristics.\n\nSo, no Green Day is not emo, they are extremely far from it. They are pop-punk.\n\nP.S. Emo has nothing to do with hairstyle or dress.
814348
emo comes from ''emotion''........its really just a high school trend that will soon fade away....plus no one over thirty is emo.....lol.....its more about being beautifully depressed...and looking for attention......i wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself....
649351
Emo could perhaps be the worst music assaulted on our senses today. The whole point it seems, is to sound as shitty as the previous band. You have to make sure you take 3 stupid words and put them together in a retarded fashion for your band name (note: try words like "november", "blood", "fashion"), Then have some jackass sing all high-pitched about some girl he likes at school, while the bass player tries his best to mimic Norwegian Death Metal all the while sounding like crap. Yes Emo is the new Butt-Rock and in 10 years time, sad looking 30 year-olds with bad haircuts, will be pumping gas in a My Chemical Romance t-shirt.
83936
I keep hearing about Emo's. What the hell is an Emo? Since when is a kid who is all 'wah-wah-I-hate-my-life-' a new trend?
468304
I think emo is just a pathetic fad.  Emo kids aren't truly sad, they just want attention.  Emo is fake.
234673
Music that is supposed to come from deep emotions and envoke those emotions within you.\n\nMost of it is depressing.  EMO KIDS ROCK!  lol - yeah, it's a way of life.  like being goth but not as dark.\n\nIn the 80's we called it new wave (Depeche Mode, the Cure...)  same thing different generation.\n\nYes, Dashboard Confessional, Death cab for cutie, funeral for a friend, Coldplay.....