1. Someone who is overly-emotional, usually in a negative way
2. Chronically and outwardly depressed
Someone can be called emo if they have at least two of the following qualities: always dress partially or fully in black (because it "reflects the color of their soul"); wear very tight and restricting clothes (constantly in contact with the skin, because they are usually deprived of any physical contact with other people such as hugs); seem to talk mostly about how sad, unfair, or hopeless their life is; cut their own wrists; or attempt to express their emotions through excessive amounts of boring dark art or poetry (also includes music).
2. Chronically and outwardly depressed
Someone can be called emo if they have at least two of the following qualities: always dress partially or fully in black (because it "reflects the color of their soul"); wear very tight and restricting clothes (constantly in contact with the skin, because they are usually deprived of any physical contact with other people such as hugs); seem to talk mostly about how sad, unfair, or hopeless their life is; cut their own wrists; or attempt to express their emotions through excessive amounts of boring dark art or poetry (also includes music).
Emo kid: "Linkin Park and Three Days Grace are my favorite bands I feel like theyre the only ones who get my life"
Normal kid: "Dude, they are Emo incarnate. You need to get laid..."
Normal kid: "Dude, they are Emo incarnate. You need to get laid..."
by milkmn December 20, 2009
Get the emomug. A most likely teenager whos wardrobe is band tees and tight black skinny jeans with black nails, most likely like my chemical romance
by WDYWFM November 21, 2014
Get the Emomug. EDGY idiots begging for attention even though they claim not to want attention. THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU WEARING EYELINER AND SHITTY T-SHIRTS! They try to be EGGII and cool by constantly talking death and murder even though the chance to murder would make them weep. Please stop trying to be edgy and accept if you were going to die you would WEEP.
by shaggies October 2, 2017
Get the Emomug. by The King? Lmao December 1, 2019
Get the Emomug. The music:
Softcore punk rock.
"Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcore's self-imposed boundaries in favor of melodic guitars, varied rhythms, and deeply personal, impassioned lyrics." Wikipedia
The People:
It is a label people give themselves for being apathetic and emotional to an extreme (usually miserable), but wallowing in it and not wanting it to change. They tend to feel they are misunderstood and that life is not fair to them in specific.
The Look:
The casual Emo garb is faded thin\tight blue jeans or slightly oversized work pants accompanied by a secondhand T-shirt with an out of place logo, bad Heavy Metal tees work well too. Good shoes would be Converse Chuck Taylor low-tops or old skool low-top Vans. The more extreme clothes of choice would include horn-rimmed glasses, cardigan sweaters, dorky polo shirts, pants that are a bit too short and hair that is spiky or messy in the back with straight cut bangs or awkward sharp angles and are often glossed.
Compared to Goths:
The primary difference is that emos have normal or more or less standard fashion, personalities and interests. Goths take these to the extreme and dislike most people. Emos can have a pale complexion, but will not wear black lipstick, and will not have the Halloween look that goths have. Google images gives accurate portrait of goth.
Softcore punk rock.
"Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcore's self-imposed boundaries in favor of melodic guitars, varied rhythms, and deeply personal, impassioned lyrics." Wikipedia
The People:
It is a label people give themselves for being apathetic and emotional to an extreme (usually miserable), but wallowing in it and not wanting it to change. They tend to feel they are misunderstood and that life is not fair to them in specific.
The Look:
The casual Emo garb is faded thin\tight blue jeans or slightly oversized work pants accompanied by a secondhand T-shirt with an out of place logo, bad Heavy Metal tees work well too. Good shoes would be Converse Chuck Taylor low-tops or old skool low-top Vans. The more extreme clothes of choice would include horn-rimmed glasses, cardigan sweaters, dorky polo shirts, pants that are a bit too short and hair that is spiky or messy in the back with straight cut bangs or awkward sharp angles and are often glossed.
Compared to Goths:
The primary difference is that emos have normal or more or less standard fashion, personalities and interests. Goths take these to the extreme and dislike most people. Emos can have a pale complexion, but will not wear black lipstick, and will not have the Halloween look that goths have. Google images gives accurate portrait of goth.
Emo Music:
Rites Of Spring
Thursday - Full Collapse
Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down
Embrace
Jimmy Eat World - Jimmy Eat World (Bleed American)
Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Rites Of Spring
Thursday - Full Collapse
Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down
Embrace
Jimmy Eat World - Jimmy Eat World (Bleed American)
Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
by ericore September 23, 2012
Get the Emomug.