1. A term used to describe how musicians became particularly spontaneous and strongly emotional during live performances. Orig. mid-80's, early 90's
by Kange August 9, 2007
Get the emomug. I Thought I Should Clear Up Its Not Only Emos Who Self Harm.
Emo Is More Of A Music Genre, Stupid People Just Call People Who Listen To Emo Music Emo. Fools!
Its Not Nice To Be Labeled..Should Emos Go Round Calling Evryone Who Takes The Piss Out Of Them CHAV!
No, Thats Stupid Prejudice!
People Go Through Rough Times And Just Like To Be Left To It And Not To Be Judged
Some People Think Emos Are Just Like Drama Queens Who Are Pessamistic.
Just Because Yooh Fuckers Have A Great Life Quit Making It Worse For Us.
And Also...Yes Emo boysLike To Wear Skinny Jeans.
DUDES IN SKIINY JEANS ARE FUCKIN HOTT!!
I Find It Quite Offensive How Nearly Evry Defenition On Here Is Slating "emo" Fuck Off!
Give People A Break They Are Normal 2, Just View Life Differently
Emo Is More Of A Music Genre, Stupid People Just Call People Who Listen To Emo Music Emo. Fools!
Its Not Nice To Be Labeled..Should Emos Go Round Calling Evryone Who Takes The Piss Out Of Them CHAV!
No, Thats Stupid Prejudice!
People Go Through Rough Times And Just Like To Be Left To It And Not To Be Judged
Some People Think Emos Are Just Like Drama Queens Who Are Pessamistic.
Just Because Yooh Fuckers Have A Great Life Quit Making It Worse For Us.
And Also...Yes Emo boysLike To Wear Skinny Jeans.
DUDES IN SKIINY JEANS ARE FUCKIN HOTT!!
I Find It Quite Offensive How Nearly Evry Defenition On Here Is Slating "emo" Fuck Off!
Give People A Break They Are Normal 2, Just View Life Differently
ChavvyBoy: Eww Why Yooh Be Wering Skinny Jeans For?
HotEmo: Whye Are Yooh Wering Tracksuits & Burberry
*silence*
ChavvyBoy: I Like These Clothes
HotEmo: Well I Like Mine, Dude Give Me A Break. Were The Same, Im Just Not A Sheep Like Yooh And Everyone Else! :P
HotEmo: Whye Are Yooh Wering Tracksuits & Burberry
*silence*
ChavvyBoy: I Like These Clothes
HotEmo: Well I Like Mine, Dude Give Me A Break. Were The Same, Im Just Not A Sheep Like Yooh And Everyone Else! :P
by HeavenlyDemonic September 29, 2007
Get the emomug. dont were that much black
cut wrist becouse of pain
listen to punk music
not sad all the time
fun to be around
not gay
kida a prep
cut wrist becouse of pain
listen to punk music
not sad all the time
fun to be around
not gay
kida a prep
regular guy- why you emo?
emo guy-becouse i can
regular guy-emos are so gay
emo guy-you junge me becouse i cut my wrist and how i dress when you dont even know me.
regular guy- what ever
emo guy-becouse i can
regular guy-emos are so gay
emo guy-you junge me becouse i cut my wrist and how i dress when you dont even know me.
regular guy- what ever
by savnna246 December 9, 2007
Get the emomug. History: Emo originates from Punk bands in DC with an "emotional moment" and evovled into a full culture.
Emo Music
Old and Original: Dashboard Confessional, Embrace, Rites of Spring, Sunny Day Real-Estate
Fashion
Emo fashion consists of tight jeans of blue and gray. Dyed black hair and sometimes with highlights of neon color. Beaten up converse shoes. Lip piercings. Eyeliner. Thick-rimmed glasses.
Truths and False
Myth: Emos are cutters
Truth: Seriously? Wow. Cutting has been around before emo existed. "Preppies" can cut, adults can cut. Cutting is a serious problem as bad as alcholism and drug abuse, but cutting is not emo, and not all emos cut. If you cut, go get help.
Myth: Emos are fags
Truth: Emos now a days are mostly teens, and apart of the teenage years, its a time of discovery, inluding sexuality discovery. But not all emos are bi-curious.
Myth: Emos are bitchy and emotional
Truth: It may be so sometimes, but emo people are usually more introspective and sensitive, some could be angsty and depressed all the time, but its never right to judge a group based on one person's personality.
Modern
Now a days, emo has been attacked several times. The truth is, many kids who are "emo" now a days are just looking for an excuse to be a bitch and asshole. Cutters are often labeled emos, and that is not what emo stands for.
A new breed called scene kids emerged. Emos and scene kids are very different. Emos are introspective, and sensitive, scene kids are myspace and mainstreamers with a lolita element.
Emo Terms and Interest
Converse shoes: Even if its mainstream, its so emo.
Poetry: Teenagers rejoice! Emos often express themselves through music and poetry.
Guitar: An emos best friend. jk
Conclusion
Emo is about being introspective and open to the world of teenage age. Its not about being sad or being a cutter.
Emo Music
Old and Original: Dashboard Confessional, Embrace, Rites of Spring, Sunny Day Real-Estate
Fashion
Emo fashion consists of tight jeans of blue and gray. Dyed black hair and sometimes with highlights of neon color. Beaten up converse shoes. Lip piercings. Eyeliner. Thick-rimmed glasses.
Truths and False
Myth: Emos are cutters
Truth: Seriously? Wow. Cutting has been around before emo existed. "Preppies" can cut, adults can cut. Cutting is a serious problem as bad as alcholism and drug abuse, but cutting is not emo, and not all emos cut. If you cut, go get help.
Myth: Emos are fags
Truth: Emos now a days are mostly teens, and apart of the teenage years, its a time of discovery, inluding sexuality discovery. But not all emos are bi-curious.
Myth: Emos are bitchy and emotional
Truth: It may be so sometimes, but emo people are usually more introspective and sensitive, some could be angsty and depressed all the time, but its never right to judge a group based on one person's personality.
Modern
Now a days, emo has been attacked several times. The truth is, many kids who are "emo" now a days are just looking for an excuse to be a bitch and asshole. Cutters are often labeled emos, and that is not what emo stands for.
A new breed called scene kids emerged. Emos and scene kids are very different. Emos are introspective, and sensitive, scene kids are myspace and mainstreamers with a lolita element.
Emo Terms and Interest
Converse shoes: Even if its mainstream, its so emo.
Poetry: Teenagers rejoice! Emos often express themselves through music and poetry.
Guitar: An emos best friend. jk
Conclusion
Emo is about being introspective and open to the world of teenage age. Its not about being sad or being a cutter.
An emo goes to a thrift store
A scene kid goes to hot topic
An emo has a bad day, and writes something
A scene kid bitches on myspace
A scene kid goes to hot topic
An emo has a bad day, and writes something
A scene kid bitches on myspace
by Negasable May 4, 2008
Get the emomug. ok emo doesn't mean you cut yourself. although alot of emos do. it started off as a type of emotional hardcore music and turned into a style.
most emos wear hair over their face, tight pants, chucks or vans, and eyeliner. i used to be emo and depressed after i started listening to AFI. emo is sort of in between goth and punk, and sometimes scene. it's simply a type of style, but now when a person goes and says "oh i think i want to be emo" they start acting depressed, cause thats what everyone says emo is. it's a style dude.
by xdryxmyxtearsx July 7, 2008
Get the emomug. an emo is a worthless piece of shit
that needs to die
their daily life consists of stressing over what way their fringes look like and worrying about their weight
they are vain fucks
they look like shit anyway
that needs to die
their daily life consists of stressing over what way their fringes look like and worrying about their weight
they are vain fucks
they look like shit anyway
in a typical emo cahtroom
< 3darkvampire: omg my bangs look awful today omg look at this pic i just uploaded
xmisery_demise_guyx : that pic is the sex! <3333333 u look great you could use more hairspray though
<3darkvampire: omg omg im going to cut myself its awful isnt it my fringe is way too short :'( this life ....i cant deal with the pain........i....i ........i cant live with myself anymore
xmisery_demise_guyx: i know i know im stressing out because my little sister's skinny jeans wont fit me anymore this life......never will the sorrow of my black abyss ever leave me
<3darkvampire: this pain from my knife......it takes away all pain
xmisery_demise_guyx: omg i hate it when people dont understand us , like i know it really does take all the pain away. i cant live with out cutting myself
< 3darkvampire: omg my bangs look awful today omg look at this pic i just uploaded
xmisery_demise_guyx : that pic is the sex! <3333333 u look great you could use more hairspray though
<3darkvampire: omg omg im going to cut myself its awful isnt it my fringe is way too short :'( this life ....i cant deal with the pain........i....i ........i cant live with myself anymore
xmisery_demise_guyx: i know i know im stressing out because my little sister's skinny jeans wont fit me anymore this life......never will the sorrow of my black abyss ever leave me
<3darkvampire: this pain from my knife......it takes away all pain
xmisery_demise_guyx: omg i hate it when people dont understand us , like i know it really does take all the pain away. i cant live with out cutting myself
by fuckthealliance June 15, 2009
Get the emomug. OK, first of all... Emo is not Dashboard Confessional or "Death Cab" or Fall Out Boy. Advertisers have for some reason decided to use the term "emo" to describe these bubble-gum punk bands for a reason beyond me. O, if only Wenis had caught on instead....
Anyways
Emo has its roots in the vibrant punk scene of 1980s Washington DC. I'll try to sum this all up as best I can (Im no expert). After the breakup of the hardcore band Minor Threat, the now-legends of the DC scene (Ian MacKaye, Guy Piccioto, etc) decided that the type of music they had been playing had lost its originality and basically worn itself out... So in come the bands Rites of Spring and Embrace. They took the classic DC hardcore sound and added lyrics that conveyed deeper emotions. I'm sure it would sound like noise to most people who hear it for the first time, but I love it. In an interview at the time, Ian MacKaye (Now in Embrace) mentioned that fans had started to use the word "emo" to describe themselves as a group (Alas for cliques and exclusion). Then the term stuck, and was added to similar bands such as Moss Icon, Antioch, and then later Saetia, Current, Indian Summer, and the list goes on. By the early 90s, bands began to take the influences of this "emo" sound and combine it with more melodic pop-punk influences, and now we have Texas Is The Reason, pg. 99, CaPn Jazz, and later the promise ring and jimmy eats world (sort of). The term emo still stuck, even though some people tried to distinguish between the "driving, or melodic emo" of the current time, and the "emocore" of the 80s, most people didnt care. Bands like Jimmy Eat World began to get mainstream recognition in the late 90s, and although they changed their sound substansially, and sounded almost nothing like the Emo of over 10 years ago, the term "emo" was still in use (goddamit, its persistent). Teen People even called emo "the cutest new trend in music" in an article in 1998. Now, this is a HUGE difference from the "Emo" of the early years, which was underground, rough, and raw. But what can you do? And then in the past few years bands have capitalized on Jimmy Eat World type bands new poppy sound, and MTV and all the other "hip" advertisers decided to call them all emo... So here we are with the current "emo trend, which Im sure all of you already know more than enough about.
Anyways
Emo has its roots in the vibrant punk scene of 1980s Washington DC. I'll try to sum this all up as best I can (Im no expert). After the breakup of the hardcore band Minor Threat, the now-legends of the DC scene (Ian MacKaye, Guy Piccioto, etc) decided that the type of music they had been playing had lost its originality and basically worn itself out... So in come the bands Rites of Spring and Embrace. They took the classic DC hardcore sound and added lyrics that conveyed deeper emotions. I'm sure it would sound like noise to most people who hear it for the first time, but I love it. In an interview at the time, Ian MacKaye (Now in Embrace) mentioned that fans had started to use the word "emo" to describe themselves as a group (Alas for cliques and exclusion). Then the term stuck, and was added to similar bands such as Moss Icon, Antioch, and then later Saetia, Current, Indian Summer, and the list goes on. By the early 90s, bands began to take the influences of this "emo" sound and combine it with more melodic pop-punk influences, and now we have Texas Is The Reason, pg. 99, CaPn Jazz, and later the promise ring and jimmy eats world (sort of). The term emo still stuck, even though some people tried to distinguish between the "driving, or melodic emo" of the current time, and the "emocore" of the 80s, most people didnt care. Bands like Jimmy Eat World began to get mainstream recognition in the late 90s, and although they changed their sound substansially, and sounded almost nothing like the Emo of over 10 years ago, the term "emo" was still in use (goddamit, its persistent). Teen People even called emo "the cutest new trend in music" in an article in 1998. Now, this is a HUGE difference from the "Emo" of the early years, which was underground, rough, and raw. But what can you do? And then in the past few years bands have capitalized on Jimmy Eat World type bands new poppy sound, and MTV and all the other "hip" advertisers decided to call them all emo... So here we are with the current "emo trend, which Im sure all of you already know more than enough about.
by JohnnyQQQ July 25, 2008
Get the emomug.