Though it has been defined by many sources - Wikipedia, Andy Greenwald, Andy Radin and such - as a subgenre of punk music in the late 80's, we have to consider that in this modern era, Emo is now defined as anything overly emotional.
Associated with this are self-mutilation, skintight clothing, piercings, excessive crying, and I could go on for days. There is no exact, bullseye definition for Emo since it is somehow stuck between being a genre of music, which is what it used to be and; a short-cut term for the word "emotional".
But if we talk about now, Emo means emotional. Cutting your wrists, jumping off your window, listening and crying to "emotional" music, drugs, sad relationships, guns, razors, sharp objects, blood, hating, rationality, loving, sex, homosexuality, breaking up, and so much more.
It's kind of nonsense to some, but what can we do? It's there and if you don't like it, you'll just have to wait for it to die out.
Associated with this are self-mutilation, skintight clothing, piercings, excessive crying, and I could go on for days. There is no exact, bullseye definition for Emo since it is somehow stuck between being a genre of music, which is what it used to be and; a short-cut term for the word "emotional".
But if we talk about now, Emo means emotional. Cutting your wrists, jumping off your window, listening and crying to "emotional" music, drugs, sad relationships, guns, razors, sharp objects, blood, hating, rationality, loving, sex, homosexuality, breaking up, and so much more.
It's kind of nonsense to some, but what can we do? It's there and if you don't like it, you'll just have to wait for it to die out.
It is emo to cut yourself.
by Aubrey Framling Blunt February 3, 2008
Get the emomug. An incomprehensibly lame, fag-ass pimple bitch lifestyle pseudo-pretense, embraced by vaguely homosexual or bi or confused boys and distinctly hideous, blemished, chubby girls.
"Hi."
"Hi. Say do you know a good place to buy scarves to wear in summer, stretch jeans, and black hair dye?"
"Yes, Emo Zone on W. 33rd."
"Hi. Say do you know a good place to buy scarves to wear in summer, stretch jeans, and black hair dye?"
"Yes, Emo Zone on W. 33rd."
by Faggolicious August 9, 2008
Get the emomug. Emo:
People have said this to be many different things. Well Im pretty sure you are all wrong...
"Emo" is NOT short for emotional, it is short for Emotive Hardcore. Yes. That is a kind of music. It first came out in the mid 80s and died in the late 90s, what we have today is "scenester".
We do still have what you might call "Emo music" Bright Eyes perfected it, Dashboard murdered it, making really really bad attempts of being an Emo band.
Then there are the kids who think they are emo....
Uhm.... these kids listen to screamo, not emo.
People have said this to be many different things. Well Im pretty sure you are all wrong...
"Emo" is NOT short for emotional, it is short for Emotive Hardcore. Yes. That is a kind of music. It first came out in the mid 80s and died in the late 90s, what we have today is "scenester".
We do still have what you might call "Emo music" Bright Eyes perfected it, Dashboard murdered it, making really really bad attempts of being an Emo band.
Then there are the kids who think they are emo....
Uhm.... these kids listen to screamo, not emo.
Im so emo, I go home and cry while I listen to my shitty Dashboard and pretend the songs are about my life. LOSSSEERRR
by Kristen FooFoo Bird March 29, 2007
Get the emomug. a cheap imitation of goth, but much more winy, sappy, and sad.They ar also commonly mistaked or being gay. Emos are almost always goth poseres.
by steve666 February 4, 2008
Get the emomug. A very softcore version of goths or goth
fake people
thos kids who you wanted to beat up in elementary school
fake people
thos kids who you wanted to beat up in elementary school
He's emo lets beat the shit out of him
by HalfNaked October 27, 2007
Get the emomug. Emo, contrary to popular belief, is not a style of dress, or a genre of music, although the term is often used to classify those things that are associated with and popular amongst emo people. Emo is an emotion, a feeling. Emo is when you find no hope. Emo is when you feel like there is no one who cares or understands. Emo is the type of emotion many feel when they reach rock bottom
by Xixor February 10, 2009
Get the emomug. a subculture to which non-conformists conform
by .:.dori.:. September 14, 2008
Get the EMOmug.