Excellent post Zipster. Most people use Emo as an insult. So really there might be a deffinition. But usually the usage of the word is more relative to who's using it and in what context.
Excellent post Zipster. Most people use Emo as an insult. So really there might be a deffinition. But usually the usage of the word is more relative to who's using it and in what context.
I don't mind Emo, but the Pop-punk wimpy emo reallyyy bothers me
When I think of emo, I think of yes, the depressing lyrics about girls breaking up with them and I'm going to slit my wrists. And some of the punk songs, the singers use this whiney voice, and when I hear a whiney voice it sounds emo to me.
A good example of this would be: The All American Rejects
"Swing, swing, swing
From the tangles of
My heart is crushed By a former love
Can you help me find a way
To carry on again?"
I'm sure a lot of you have heard that song. ^.^
I like that song...
Should've Done Something
But I've Done It Enough
By The Way Your Hands Were Shaking
Rather Waste My Time With You
Should've Said Something
But I've Said It Enough
By The Way My Words Were Faded
Rather Waste My Time With You
That's a pretty good way of desciring it. Bands that use lyrics and themes such as that in all (or the large majority) of their songs are emo.Originally Posted by Reles
Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Linkin Park and the like were around before this emo craze kicked off, and though they do tend to whine alot they also tend to have more poppy melodies. I'd call them (and their like) pop-rock rather than emo. HIM I wouldn't say are emo, because I think a lot of their songs deal with getting together or wanting to get together, not just ending relationships. And Hsu is right, Ohio Is For Lovers is one of the worst songs of all time.
Emo is widely diverse, because it's not really found itself as a trend yet, and as such hasn't decided exactly what it wants to exclude. Either that or all emo folk have no musical taste
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Avril Lavigne and Linkin Par count I guess. Linkin Park is rock and Rap. Avril Lavigne is Pop with a small bit of country and rock.
Avril Lavigne is kinda emo, but she's so awful that calling her emo is a compliment, which is really saying something. xD
You're MEAN Rye xDAvril Lavigne is kinda emo, but she's so awful that calling her emo is a compliment, which is really saying something. xD
Yeah that picture and her album art is all terribly emo (that doesnt mean I dont like the album art)
I like her albums. *readies shield*
I think foa's going to have to make another announcement about someone who can't shut the smurf up about something they don't like.
Anyway, the worst emo bands are ones like Good Charlotte and Simple Plan, who just exploit any and all teenage angst they can. Maybe a few other need to shut up and suck it up, but the rest isn't that terribly bad, in doses.
i thought emo was "songs to slit your wrists too" which is why i wouldnt have claased myself as likin emo, but by the sounds of things and from the bands mentioned above, im an emo fan! (apprently)
OMGZ IM BACK!1!!11!
Haha, did you see the music video to Nobody's Home? She goes around in a short black wig as a homeless teen girl who washes her hair in a public bathroom or something. xDYou're MEAN Rye xDAvril Lavigne is kinda emo, but she's so awful that calling her emo is a compliment, which is really saying something. xD
Yeah that picture and her album art is all terribly emo (that doesnt mean I dont like the album art)
I like her albums. *readies shield*
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Just count yourself lucky you weren't born a few years earlier, Rye. That could have been you.
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Dear god, no. xDJust count yourself lucky you weren't born a few years earlier, Rye. That could have been you.
Hmm. I hate the genre, but I also find it annoying that people usually catagorise bands that aren't emo, as the genre. People seem to jump that if a band has lyrics to do with sadness and love and whatever, than that band is automatically emo.
That isn't really the case. Emo bands do have these lyrics but msot of the time it boils down to the music and cult following. The music is mostly a more melancholic version of pop punk with elements of slower metal, and the cult following is pretty much what gives the genre its name. The people that listen to this music are usually mid teen, depressed, anti social guys/gals that think the whole world is against them and that their only solace is listening to music and writing poetry. xD
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