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A very broad range of musical genres all clumped together and Called "emo" but actually completely different genres.
Bands like black veil brides or sleeping with sirens or any other generic scene-looking bands are called emo; generic Pop bands like paramore are called emo; generic Pop Punk bands like mcr or fall out boy are called Emo.
Real emo bands are from the early 80s and dont really look like anything. Also see "punk" and "alternative".
Real Emo:
get up kids
jawbox
jawbreaker
jets to brazil
mineral
samiam
smashing pumpkins
sunny day real estate

texas is the reason
moss icon
embrace
rites of spring
hüsker dü

Fake emo/not emo:
pierce the veil
paramore
alesana
sleeping with sirens
blink 182

green day
black veil brides
my chemical romance
chiodos
(Basically any band that shows men with makeup on)
xxxxxxxxxxemoxxxxxxxxx: I love MCR they are so emo
real emo person: no Jawbreaker is emo. Thou shalt go to youtube and look up Jawbreaker - Lawn else you will die.
xxxxxxxxxxemoxxxxxxxxx I have listened to the Jawbreaker king of all bands and t'is delicious. i hate new emo.
new emo by TheMisunderstood November 5, 2012
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new wave emo 

The current emo kids that aren’t actually emo. They obsess over 21 pilots, FAB, Lil peep. They claim to be sad with Billie Eilish being their starter pack. They’re usually younger and less cool then the traditional emo kids from 2000 to 2012. Most then likely, they’ll have a shitty taste in music and are not that big into bands. Even then, they claim to be edgy when they’re the Cheap version. As for their physical appearance, they don’t look emo at all unless they show a hint such as a crazy hair color.
Person 1: Does she like rock bands at all? I can’t tell.

Person 2: She has a 21 pilots shirt on. She must be from the new wave emo era.

Emo- in new york

It means that ur a homosexual dark person
Emo- in new york by sheluhhzay_0 December 9, 2021

Emo (in the "new" stareotypeical sense of the word)

someone that is emo is usually very depressed and will physicaly harm themselfs to take their mind off of deppresion. Emo people often have or think about trying to commit suicide
Emo (in the "new" stareotypeical sense of the word)-

"I cut myself to take my mind off of the fact that I want to kill myself"

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026