emo

A musical movement that started in the 80's and slowly declind until its corporate death in the mid 90's. Bands such as The Rites of Spring, Texas Is The Reason and Kid Dynamic started the genere, the first of which being the first to use the phrase in 1984. Later in the 80's, the band Brai commercialized on the genre, taking advantage of the underground loyalty the poetic form of punk rock had genreated over the years. They began to use stereotypical, self abusive and exgirlfriend drama filled lyrics in place of heartfelt emotion, and th eband began to not copose a song beyond a few chords and a catchy hook. Soon after, band got more and more attention as the genre "Emo" died and "Scene" music began. Emo is not a subculture, scene is. That is what most people on here are defining. Emo was a movement in the 80's, that is ALL.

Rites Of Spring
Kid Dynamic
Cap'n Jazz
Joan Of Arc (New band mad eof ex Cap'n Jazz Members.

Emo is NOT a culture, NOT a way of dress or a personality stereotype.

by werdna1 June 8, 2007

Emos

Teenagers (primeraly) that are angry at their parents for no apparent reason and like to cry themselves to sleep at night. They listen to a variation of punk music. See also: Screamo

1. Look at the stupid Emos
2. Cheer up Emo

by Christobel February 12, 2006

emo

1. An extremely annoying fad for all non-emos, and unhealthy for emos. Basically, a less sinister and evil goth with a few aspects of chav thrown in. They are pretty much all either depressed, or pretend to be, and as such take antidepressants, or try to kill themselves, or pretend to. They wear ill-fitting jeans and sweatshirts, usually striped, and have silly hair. Their favourite colours are pink and black, and they regard everyone else as inferior. They know nothing about real life because they spend most of their time locked in their room with a knife listening to My Chemical Romance and other rubbish like that. They claim to be in touch with their emotions, but are totally incapable of anything other than complete misery.
2. Miserable and depressing whiny form of music that says how life is rubbish and how INSERT ARTISTS NAME HERE just wants to get away by killing themselves, although unfortunately for the rest of us they never do.

"Where's emo boy today?"
"I heard he had to go into hospital cos his mum caught him slitting his wrists"
"Stupid emo"

"Leave me alone. You don't understand me. No one understands me. Let me be, you oppressive narrow-minded fascist. What do you know about me? You're always making generalisations about me."
"Jesus, man, shut up! You don't even know what fascist means, you stupid emo!"

by James R Thomson April 3, 2007

emos

A group of people that will not stand being made fun of, and will piss and moan relentlessly until you stop....Regardless of the fact that they too will make fun of certain groups of people (Preppies or 'conformist', for example). They are no more "original" or "intelligent" then the skaters, the goths, the preps, or any other "clique" you can dream up. They all look like carbon copies of each other, as they buy all their shit from the same store. Most emos' family have enough money to buy them clothes that actually FIT them, and AREN'T RIPPED or TORN or FADED, but they insist on dressing like that; not because they necessarily like the style, but because thats the way they're supposed to dress. So, as opposed to buying clothes that make them look like they can afford to buy shit that doesn't come from the Salvation Army, they come to school looking like homeless people, providing a big ol' slap in the face to those people who can't afford to piss away their money on clothes that look 4 years old. Not all emos cut, however, because most of them don't have the balls. It will take an emo longer to get over someone dumping them then your average teen. I don't understand why someone would dump an emo, though. It's always been my ambition to date a whiny, suck-ass bitch baby that decided to turn their non-existent problems and pet-peeves into a fashion statement. Even to all you emos that actually do come from broken homes and have real problems, THRIVING ON THEM WONT HELP YOUR SAD ASS GET OVER IT. You're not doing anything more then sending a big old 'fuck you' to all the other people who have problems and are making a genuine effort to over come them, as opposed to becoming misery's bitch.

Emo: Ew...Look at that conformist over there. I wonder if she knows that all the make-up and fancy clothes in the world wont make her a better person?

Preppie: Ew...Look at those emos over there......I wonder if they know that all the tears and tight shirts in the world wont change the fact that they're just as shallow and conforming as I am.

by PunchDrunk September 22, 2007

emo

A style of dress and music adapted generally by white teenagers of the U.S and U.K. Used by many people(many of the definitions on this topic being evidence of this)as something to hate and bitch about with little justification. The dress style includes drain pipe trousers, black hair with a long fringe swept to the side, sripes, the colour black, also the colour white but only when combined with black. Many talented band are hated because of there emoness examples including My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights, Fall Out Boy etc. Emo stereotypes include heavy depression, self harm and self obsession. In the majority of cases these accusations are false

Come on people, give em a chance. Dont hate what you dont love, emo

by punkaintdead July 4, 2007

emo

a phase teenagers go through who can't find their own identity.

Chick: Dude i thought she was emo
Dude: Nah shes goth now

by Rachel Anne March 15, 2007

emo

amazin genre of rock
few are well known but some are

style:
thick black eyeliner (not amy winehouse thick thats CHAV!)
amazing hair
vintage clothes
converses

NOT ALLE EMOS CUT THEMSELVES!!!!!
TRUE EMOS DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK!

chav: yo blud ur an emo u cut ur self
emo:no
chav: u do blud ur gonna die
emo: ur girlfriend is 13 n has 5 kids
chav: no my girlfriend is 15 n is pregnant with her first so shut ur mouth u muther f***r! u wunna make sumfin of it? come on then! come on!
emo: get a life

by tickle me emo December 14, 2008