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Dear Diary

Mood: Apathetic

My life is spiraling downward
I couldn’t get enough money to go to the Blood Red Romance and Suffocate Me Dry concert
It sucks cause they play some of my favorite songs like “Stab My Heart Because I Love You” and “Rip Apart My Soul” and of course “Stabby Rip Stab Stab” And It doesn’t help that I couldn’t get my hair to do that flippy thing either…Like that guy from that band can do...Some days, ya know...

I’m an emo kid, non-conforming as can be.
You’d be non-conforming too if you looked just like me
I have paint on my nails and makeup on my face
I’m almost emo enough to start shaving my legs
Cause I feel real deep when I'm dressing in drag
I call it freedom of expression, most just call me a fag
'Cause our dudes look like chicks, and our chicks look like dykes
Cause emo is one step below transvestite

Stop my breathing and slit my throat
I must be emo

I don’t jump around when I go to shows
I must be emo

I’m dark and sensitive with low self esteem
The way I dress makes everyday feel like Halloween
I have no real problems but I like to make believe
I stole my sister’s mascara now I’m grounded for a week
Sulking and writing poetry are my hobbies
I can’t get through a hawthorne heights album without sobbing
Girls keep breaking up with me, it’s never any fun
They say they already have a pussy, they don’t need another one.

Stop my breathing and slit my throat
I must be emo

I don’t jump around when I go to shows
I must be emo

Dye in my hair and polish on my toes
I must be emo

I play guitar and write suicide notes
I must be emo

my life is just a black abyss... ya know..it’s so dark. And it’s suffocating me, grabbing a hold of me and tightening its grip, tighter than a pair of my little sisters jeans...which look great on me by the way.

When I get depressed I cut my wrist in every direction
Hearing songs about getting dumped gives me an erection
I write in a live journal and wear thick rimmed glasses
I tell my friends I bleed black and cry during classes
I’m just a bad, cheap imitation of goth
You can read me “Catcher in the Rye” and watch me jack off
I wear skin tight clothes while hating my life
If I said I like girls, I’d only be half right.

I look like I’m dead and dress like a homo
I must be emo

Screw Xbox I play old school Nintendo
I must be emo

I like to whine and hit my parentals
I must be emo

Me and my friends all look like clones
I must be emo

My parents don’t get me ya know
They think I’m gay just because they saw me kiss a guy… Well, a couple guys. But, I mean it’s the 2000’s. Can’t 2…or 4 dudes make out with each other without being gay?
I mean, chicks dig that kind of thing anyways.
I don’t know diary, sometimes I think you are the only one that gets me. You’re my best friend.



I feel like tacos.
Emo kid: I hate my life, give me that razor so I can cut myself.
by Hannah Balogna October 19, 2008
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emo band

A group of people who perform 'emo' music.


see: emo
bands that are emo:

Taking Back Sunday
My Chemical Romance

bands that are NOT emo:

Simple Plan
Good Charlotte

SP and GC are pop-punk.
by meatwad's ghost May 26, 2005
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Real Emo

-Emo music: Stands for 'emotive hardcore' music and branched off from 'hardcore music' (a heavier faster version of punk). Emo is characterized mostly by its vocals. The male singer often sounds femenine. There may be moans, screams (as opposed groans or roars), and simply singing in a very soft manner. Lyrics also play role. These are mostly characterized by complaints or discussing stressful life situations.

-Emo as slang or an insult: Invented by opposers to the emotive hardcore style and music. More fundamental 'hardcore kids' wanted to distinguish themselves from the emotive hardcore genre or emotive hardcore listeners, so they attached an offensive nature to the term 'emo' (which was short for the music) and invented the term 'emo kid.'

-Later use: Emo became associated, as an insult, with introverts who had thick rimmed glasses, shaggy hair, old band shirts, depression, and self mutilation.

-Today: People defined as emo today, are mostly part of the emotive hardcore scene. People who follow the popular emo fashion style (described below) may also be labeled emo, even though they do not enjoy the music or the scene.

-Contemporary Emo Fashion style: Both the males and females are characterized by having hair in their face (sometimes spikey in the back and/or with highlights), a lot of makeup, tight jeans, piercings (especially ones called 'snakebites'), and more. Female styles include: fake pearl necklaces or other 'loud' necklaces, bows or clips in the hair, ballet-flat shoes, very large sunglasses, clothing with polkadot patterns, and more. Male styles include wearing female clothing such as small shirts or jeans, painted nails, converse, and more.

-Defensiveness: Today, many people in the emo scene (where people gather to listen to emotive hardcore) and elsewhere are very offended by the term 'emo.' They will claim to be 'scene' or 'scenesters' instead, or they will attempt to claim they are 'simply individuals' and do not follow any certain label or trend.

-Emo in Pop Culture: The emo culture has become ubiquitous in every day life. This is mostly due to Myspace, where the music and the style are extremely popular and even often picked up by young children who have no idea the music or scene exists. Its popularity is also due in part to MTV for popularizing bands that take most, if not all, of their fashion style and music style directly from the emo scene (such as Fallout Boy or MCR). And again, emo scene kids will get defensive about this fact and declare that those bands, or any band that becomes popular enough, either 'sucks' or are not true emo bands but instead 'pop punk', among other terms.
That is not what real emo is.

That band is real emo...

He is a real emo kid.
by Finder December 15, 2008
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emo cutters

People cut themselves, this is a fact. There is, however, a line. People actual problems, they do it for real. It's not so other people with stare or think they're cool, it's because this is their way of doing things.
There are also emo cutters. Kids that "cut themselves" with bits of plastic or a butter knife. These little bastards wouldn't dare touch a razor blade because they actually cut. Kids (they are kids) that "cut" for attention, for respect or because some gay emo song made them cry.
Look out for emo cuts. They're tiny red lines or raised bits of red skin. Give the fuckers some real cuts to cry about.
Emo Kid #1: "OMG, im lyk so depressed. im gona scratch my arm with a safety pin"

Emo Kid #2: "aw, emo buddy, lets be emo cutters 2geva!"
by True*Blue May 19, 2006
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Emo-hippy

An example of a person who has an individual style of dressing. They like colour, a lot,like a hippy, but also like the style of emo and occasionaly flit over to that side. They appear happy, but are often unhappy. May occasionally self harm, though not! essential. Does not care what people think becasue this poerson is an individual and does his/her own thing.
Omg, shes so colourful, but she's got an emo fringe, black eyeliner, and new rock boots on. What a freak! She's like an Emo-hippy or somehting. Lo-ser!
by Emo-hippy chick February 10, 2007
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emo trinity

A parody of the Holy Trinity consisting of the musical groups Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, and Fall Out Boy despite the fact that the musical groups are not truly emo.
Jenny: The emo trinity is not emo.
Sabrina: Oh my God, yes they are! Why else would they be considered emo?
Jenny: Okay, they're "mall emo".
by Johnny the Dude July 21, 2018
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emo cowboy

emo boys/girls that wear kerchiefs around thier mouths and neck
haha look at the little emo cowboy's kerchief thinks hes so hardcore. Go Hijack a train Emo cowboy!
by bask8tcase September 26, 2006
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