What does "emo"  nessacarily mean?
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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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what is an emo person. what does it mean to cut. what the hell are you trying to say.
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Its stupid---thats all it is. Emo is bunch of losers, trying to act like they have "issues" when really they are just so bored and they make up a bunch of bull. \nBut HECK YEA! LONG LIVE HEAVY METAL! YOU RAWK!\nkRiStA
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"Emo" is NOT an English word, sorry!
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Hey,I've heard that song,it's from Adam & Andrew. "I must be Emo". Yup,I saw them on myspace. Anyway....\nEmo started out as music. Now,it has it's own type of clothing. Tight pants,and the emo hair. Goths wear black. People who listen to rap wear baggy clothes. They all have their different styles. Everyone thinks their cool,everyone wants to be cool.They don't necessarily have to be form a certain group such as emo.
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EMOtional ... it's where they think it's cool to be depressed.   Over-wrought with emotions.  They are experiencing life and love for the first time and being overly melodramatic about it.  I'll update in a second with some funny links about this for you ... check back in a minute, OK ?\n\n/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92; UPDATED /&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;\n\nCheck the link below ... sorry, more links there, but the videos will do very good to inform you of what EMO culture really is ... a joke.
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yes.. emo comes from emotional
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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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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.
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I have no clue why. Emo equals weird!
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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.
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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.
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Hawthorne Heights is concidered very 'emo' because of that.\nBut I really don't think 'emo' really means anything. Emo stands for emotional. Everybody has emotions. What makes people who like to classify them as having emotions different than everyone else?
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Emo kids are sterotypically emotional, whiny kids that... well... look at the first link to see how they dress and look at the second link to read more about them.\nPretty much if you have a myspace.com account you will run into plenty of them.\nThey're also referred to as 'scene' kids because they want to be where the best scene is aka where the good concerts are and what not.
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To be honest I don't have a clue about EMO. Is it Eternally Me Only?
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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.