Emo, The true definition

[Elly]

finaly someone that has it right, and yes Emo means emotional, not emotive, it was used by the indi mags at the time to shorten "Emotionaly Charged Punk Rock" as that is far to much for an indi rag to worry about typing out every time, they wanted to interview or do a pice on an Emo band, it was a term coined by the media of the time much like, "rock and roll", Pop (short for Popular Music), and "Heavy Metal", granted it was a lesser known part of the media that coined the term Emo, and now the term is being horribly misused by these kids that don't like to research what they claim to be...

[Sunny Day Suicide]

THANK YOU!!!



Someone knows where Im coming from.

And stop getting mixed up wit those stupid scene kids on myspace. They got no lives and are a bunch of fags.

I was sp in love with your post until I saw you write that. This forum doesn't tolerate derogatory language like that. Gay is OK. Quite a few people here are gay. So if you have a problem with "fags" you don't belong here.

I dont have a problem wit fags. Its called verbal use buddy. A lot of people use words differently then what they mean. So if offended anybody, my bad

[Eiko Guy]

I am not as offended by the word than by the way you used it. You said they are a bunch of "fags", in a very derogatrive way. It hurts...guess I'm emo now. J/k I've always been emo.

[El Bandito]

and now the term is being horribly misused by these kids that don't like to research what they claim to be...

See that's the problem. It doesn't matter the origins of a term, all that matters is the people who associate themselves with the term nowadays. If a bunch of scene kids start regularly calling themselves emo, then in society's eyes that's what they are.

The same think happened with ska kids and the term "rude boy". You can vent all you want, but if that's the image of emo in society's eyes, it'll be hard to change it again.

[Polaris]

I'm not offended by the word emo even though I don't even like MCR, PATD and FOB! I once wrote a lyric and a guy called me emo and I was shocked coz the lyric wasn't emo at all! It just had feelings on it .... I let society do what they want!

[Garnie]

i never knew what a emo was until resently i thought a emo was a type of big bird lol!

[ZeZipster]

Everyone with half a brain realizes it's retarded to label yourself as somehow more "emotional" than every other genre of music. Music is ABOUT CONVEYING EMOTION. That's why Fugazi, the grandfather of the genre known as "emo" today, were offended to be called "emo". For god sakes, we're talking about the guy who started the trend of sharping Xs on your hand to show you don't do drugs, and he won't take responsibility for emo. That's saying something.

Little bit of history, emocore, the original emo that the alleged "emo" bands of today drew their style from were completely different than what we know today. Emocore was part of the Hardcore scene of the '80s (I know, *GASP*, you aren't following some hip new trend). But that's really a completely different story, because comparing emo of today to '80s hardcore punk, well it's an insult to '80s hardcore punk.

I can almost guarantee every single band you find to be emo, will in fact be on a big corporate record label. That's because big corporate labels love the new swarm of loser desperately trying to fit in by listening to only 1 genre of music. They don't care if it's a meaningless label. But most bands, do. It's really quite as simple as "Here kids! Here's a hip new EMOTIONAL kind of music. Yeah now with more EMOTIONS!" and up comes a swarm of kids screaming and yelling. I'm sure a lot of you have wondered why your favorite "emo" band refuses to put emo on their MySpace as their genre. To put it simply, it's an insult.

[Cool Revolutionary]

Know whats real emo?


Christie Front Drive, The Get Up Kids, The Juliana Theory, Jimmy Eat World, Mineral, The Promise Ring, Saves The Day, Sunny Day Real Estate, & Texas Is The Reason.

so your point is.....real emo......is just as crap as fake emo?

[Ryth]

If you listen to emo music and dont cut, youre still emo. Obviously, right?

I have to mention this part: this line makes you a moron.

[Araciel]

any music that's good is usually emotional or 'emotionally charged'

[Cool Revolutionary]

yeah but that isnt what people are on about when they say "emo" is it?
Dyslexicon there not talking about emotionally charged music. there talking about a little drip with one eye bigger than the other, and totally tripe drab, un-original music.

[ff7+ff10 gurl 100]

Now some bands..

Fall out Boy, My chemical Romance, Panic! At the disco, Hawthorne Heights, Coheed And Cambria, From First To Last, The Used, & Underoath.


NOT EMO

THANK YOU.

Sorry, just wanted to say that. It pisses me off when people say that they're emo. Anyway, I agree with your definition of it, but can't we just move on? There will probably always be a discussion about this, and people will always have different of what it is. So keeping this going won't change that.

[Cool Revolutionary]

to solve the problems of this discussion, lets just make a big thread where everyone insults emo, because however you define it....it turns out to be pathetic.

[Eiko Guy]

Actually if you think about it, emo does actually mean tightpants, eyeliner, and cutting.

Just like gay used to mean happy and now its a sexual orientation. Emo used to be what you described, but now the majority of people that use it have tight pants, eyeliner, selfharming, crybabies in mind. So that's what emo is. Not what you may want but hey societies decision not yours.

[LunarWeaver]

Proof that taking a stand in anything is pointless and we should all just get drunk.