short for "emotional punk" started in the 90's with bands like fugazi. i dont like them, but hey what do i know. emo is a type of music not a fashion trend, or hair-do. emo doesnt mean "im going to go cut myself." that is a massicist. i listen to emotional punk, and i have no desire to cut myself, or cut my hair so that it drapes my face. if you call this genre of music "emo," then you might as well call everything from country to rap emo, because the majority is all about heartache or tragedy.
"that kid has tight pants, and wierd hair! i bet he cuts himself, and then cries himself to sleep everynight!" thats not emo.
by spener June 16, 2007
Get the emomug. Stupid ugly white boys who think they are hard core but really look like huge fags and ware their sisters pants.All emos deserve to die since thats that their music says.I find them a waste of space and maybe if they wernt so ugly they wouldnt be so depressed!
by Kiirsten March 26, 2007
Get the emomug. A poseur, someone who has followed the latest trend of pop-punk style bands that have been given the label 'emo'. Always wear the same as each other (tight jeans, tight tops, glasses, leopard print, converse ect), always listen to the same bands (the used, funeral for a friend, panic! at the disco ect), always have the same hair (dyed black or blonde, floppy emo fringe with layers AND/OR extentions ect).
A FAD - as soon as it goes out of fashion emo will never have existed and chavs can go back to being chavs like they were before polka dots came back to 'new look'. After all who was emo before emo became fashionable?
A FAD - as soon as it goes out of fashion emo will never have existed and chavs can go back to being chavs like they were before polka dots came back to 'new look'. After all who was emo before emo became fashionable?
by HairMetalGlamRock March 15, 2007
Get the Emomug. The emo subculture originated in the late 1980's-1990's. It started off meaning "Emotive" or "Emoticore" refering to a type of hardcore punk. The original emo bands were ones such as Rites of Spring (who claim their fans started the term emo), and Embrace.
During the late 1990's faded from it's place in the mainstream, but did exist. One of this time's signifigant emo conerstones was Weezers album "Pinkerton".
From 2000 on emo came back (harder than ever!). When emo came back, it's true meaning was somewhat lost and certain fasets of the true emo culture changed. "Emo" now is said to stand for "emotional" and many bands that emo people listen to are a very washed down, pop, sad version of punk. Such modern emo bands are Dashboard Confesional, and Further Seems Forever. With it's change of meaning modern emo's act very emotional. Often they show signs of depression, wearing black and having a very pessimistic view of the world.
During the late 1990's faded from it's place in the mainstream, but did exist. One of this time's signifigant emo conerstones was Weezers album "Pinkerton".
From 2000 on emo came back (harder than ever!). When emo came back, it's true meaning was somewhat lost and certain fasets of the true emo culture changed. "Emo" now is said to stand for "emotional" and many bands that emo people listen to are a very washed down, pop, sad version of punk. Such modern emo bands are Dashboard Confesional, and Further Seems Forever. With it's change of meaning modern emo's act very emotional. Often they show signs of depression, wearing black and having a very pessimistic view of the world.
Person 1: God I hate these fake emo people!
Person 2: They aren't fake emo, they are modern emo.
Person 1: They still annoy the crap out of me!
Person 2: Me too.
Person 2: They aren't fake emo, they are modern emo.
Person 1: They still annoy the crap out of me!
Person 2: Me too.
by Stewie Griffin Roxs my Soxs January 1, 2009
Get the emomug. emo kids fucking suck at life. just because someone is depressed, have suicidal tendencies, or cut themselves does not mean they are in the emo scene. emo kids have have tainted everything for people who actualy suffer from depression and do cut themselves. they do not self-mutilate for enjoyment they do it as a control issue as they feel they have no control in their life and the physical pain is all that they can feel at that time as they feel empty inside. they don't do it for attention as emo kids do or to fit into a scene that has some of the most god awaful music(ie. blood brothers). fuck emo kids up the ass with the knife they use to cut themselves with.
emo - verbalize that they are deprssed, hate life and try to show their cuts to the world with a saddened look to their face
depressed person - don't verbalize anything, hide their cuts and act like nothings wrong
depressed person - don't verbalize anything, hide their cuts and act like nothings wrong
by cold_scoobydoo December 26, 2008
Get the emomug. Okay. Look fucktards. Emo is short for emotional. Everybody is Emo. It's typically pointed at kids, mainly ranging in age from 13-22 because of hormone imbalances, who act "emo"tional and wear dark colors because they were individualized. So, now they think they are supposed to act that way. Good job judgmental assholes. It's your fault "emo's" cut and wear dark color. You don't like it? QUIT FUCKING SAYING STUPID SHIT TO THEM, DUMBFUCKS! How retarded are you? Realleh? Seriousleh? You want to get all mad at the "emo's" for acting like they do when it's your fault they're like that! That's stupid.
"Over Emotional Kid": "I hate my life..."
Some Judgmental Dumbass: "Quit being 'emo!'"
"Over Emotional Kid": *curls up and cuts their wrist"
Some Judgmental Dumbass: "Quit being 'emo!'"
"Over Emotional Kid": *curls up and cuts their wrist"
by Samantha Motherfucking Blake January 1, 2009
Get the Emomug. Basically, NO ONE knows what emo is anymore. Some say it's people who want to kill themselves/hate life/etc., but those are just people who, plainly, are depressed and upset with life. Doesn't mean they're emo. And there's also the emo dressing style. Seriously, what the hell? Just because you wear skinny jeans and black-rimmed glasses doesn't make you emo, either. As for me, I say that emo is a certain type of music, with meaningful lyrics about past mistakes and failed relationships with others, and emotions (any kind of emotion) Happy, sad, angry, jealous, etc. But hey, who's right about the "word" emo now-a-days?
by You don't know. December 22, 2008
Get the Emomug.