Oh god, not another one of these topics. Its a person who is depressed and needs to sometimes cut themselves to feel better? Idk how it makes sense, but correct me if im wrong. Im not making fun of them or anyhting.
lmfao...you flipped at me in irc...and you say that its a style of music known as emo[tional], and being emo is generally feeling the way that emotional songs are sang, wich is normally 'broken heated, under the weather, and pissed at the world', and once you have that mindset, the clothes and hair styles that your thinking of is probably indy, wich is witht the tight jeans and shirts, fringed hair, or anything, emo does not mean you cut yourself, it means your just a depressed drama queen, or a poser.
"Emo" (or emocore) is short for "emotional hardcore." It is essentially a subgenre of hardcore punk music, tagged sometime in the mid-80's to describe a particular style of DIY bands wanting to escape the traditional standard of hardcore (Minor Threat era) and the violent scene at the time, giving way to a new wave of experimentation that would influence many bands to come. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. This term wasn't taken too lightly by some bands at the time, however. Rites of Spring are thought to be the first band labelled with this term, although Hüsker Dü's 1984 album Zen Arcade is often cited as a major influence for the new sound. While many bands of this genre came to play seemingly different music altogether, their influences are always rooted to original emo - the Washington, DC style, and regional scenes that spawned from it. Though describing the sound can't replace listening to the bands yourself, notable characteristics of emo music today are: "loud-to-soft" (sometimes chaotic) dynamics, twinkly melodic breaks, frantic/abrasive shouting or screaming, angry/abstract/introspective lyrics, low-end production, and exceptionally energetic live shows. The "DIY" punk ethic refers to the idea of 'doing it yourself.' Essentially, making and promoting music without major record label backing, and without any great level of "selling out". This means that you're not going to hear emo on the tv or radio, kids (ok, i found one exception). You'll find most of these releases on vinyl, and sold in independant record stories. "Screamo" was a term coined later to describe the transistion of hardcore emo bands in the 1990's who started playing a louder, faster, more chaotic style, including constant screaming with fast, harmonized guitars. "Emo" and "screamo" are essentially meant to describe the same style of music. While screamo is more reserved for modern bands, emo is often used in reference to original emo, or the entire genre at a whole. "Emo Violence," sometimes misinterpreted as synonymous with "screamo," was a joke term created by In/Humanity in an attempt to describe themselves and a sound formed during the emo-screamo transition (a play on the words emo & powerviolence). While similar to both chaotic emo and grindcore, emo violence is known to sound lo-fi, with vocals pushed past the point of normal sound, with occasional spoken words or singing. Most emo bands broke up by the 90's, examples are: Rites of Spring Moss Icon Gray Matter Indian Summer Current One Last Wish Maximillian Colby Sleepytime Trio Amber Inn Clikatat Ikatowi Inkwell Still Life Shotmaker Policy of Three 1.6 Band Frail Julia Native Nod Heroin Unwound Portaits of Past Swing Kids Modern screamo is constantly in revival, with examples including: Orchid Saetia City of Caterpillar Funeral Diner Circle Takes The Square Ampere La Quiete Reversal of Man Usurp Synapse The Spirit Of Versailles You and I pg.99 Jeromes Dream Hassan I Sabbah Envy Welcome The Plague Year Yaphet Kotto Neil Perry Sinaloa Stop It!! Pygmy Lush Daniel Striped Tiger Bravo ----ing Bravo Wow, Owls! Tristan Tzara Enoch Ardon After the first wave of original emo bands had nearly dissapeared, emo's influence could be found amongst a slew of new indie bands (Sub Pop Records, for example), who were known to mix Fugazi (a highly influential band who'd come to feature Minor Threat/Embrace member Ian MacKaye and Rites of Spring member Guy Picciotto) along with post-punk elements. This is sometimes referred to as a "second wave" or "post-emo indie rock." Examples of these post-hardcore/indie bands include: Sunny Day Real Estate, Christie Front Drive, the Promise Ring, Mineral, Boys Life, Sideshow, the Get-Up Kids, Braid, Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Jets To Brazil, Texas Is the Reason, Death Cab For Cutie, Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive-In, Saves The Day, and Weezer. Around and after 2000, a -------isation* of emo terminology in turn created a fad in which had no relation with actual emo music. Showcased was a new scene of goth-like "emo fashion," stereotypes of crying and self-mutilation, and the words "emo" and "screamo" carelessly attibuted to pop-punk, post-hardcore, and dubbed-down metalcore bands alike. This is due pimarily to mainstream media, record companys, and the internet. Sometimes referred to as "popcore," "emobop," "mall emo," and "fake screamo" by those "in-the-know," none of these new bands beared resemblance to emo/screamo bands, and have hardly anything in common with them. With that being said, emo/screamo does not include the following bands: (this is not to discredit any band in particular musically) AFI, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Alkaline Trio, All-American Rejects, The Ataris, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Coheed and Cambria, The Early November, Emery, Fall Out Boy, Finch, From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At the Disco, Saosin, Senses Fail, Silverstein, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story of the Year, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Thrice, Thursday, or Yellowcard. *Emo bands have been referred to as such since the mid-80's. "Screamo" is a term first used widely in publications such as Heartattack and Maximum Rock'n'Roll to describe bands from the late 90's such as Orchid, Reversal of Man, Jeromes Dream, etc. that were playing what could be called "chaotic emo/hardcore." Because the term "screamo" is a much better catchphrase for larger publications, it was easily adopted and widely misused by other publications such as Alternative Press, SPIN, etc. to describe any pretentious pop-punk band that happened to add a screaming element to their music. Despite all this, in 1998 Teen People declared "emo" the newest "hip" style of music. After 2000, many new groups incorporating screams and sappy songwriting appeared on the mainstream for a so-called "third-wave of emo." NME Magazine is sometimes regarded as coining "screamo" as the hot new sound for 2003, and to identify to such bands as The Blood Brothers, The Used, Poison the Well, Thrice, Finch and Glassjaw. Source: http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=166516
Great definition and everything, but when someone calls someome emo that is most likely not what theyre reffering to. Its more like someone who cuts themself because they are depressed.
Utah is full of emo kids, and I've been into punk rock underground for 6 yrs now and I have to say, the kids who listen to that crap (generally) are self indulgent forced depressants and that act gay just to get laid. Girls out here are stupid enough to like these fools, it comes down to they hate their parents, hate the world, cry about ex-girlfriends/boyfriends and it needs to stop....... learn to better your life or grow a little more brains and stop hating something that need not be. God forbid your parents couldn't buy you a car at 16 cause they work their asses off to make sure you had a home with food, and a education b4 you got a stupid piece of machinery (this doesn't mean you should hate them cause they are trying to raise you dumb----s) It's a style of music that just needs to go away....... the emotion it provides ignorant kids is self loathing.
When Someone Uses "Emo", They Generally Mean Depressed Goth Who Cut's Him/Herself, And Is Always Depressed. In An Over All View, Emo Means Emotional. Thus Being More Sensitive When It Comes To Emotions. Example: Happy - Way Too Joyful. Sad - Almost Suicidal. Angry - Insane. Love - Eh Heh Heh Heh... Energetic - Ready To Climb Mt. Everest. As For Music, That's Something Else I Have No Idea About.
Does it matter? -_- Merged Post: Does it matter? just use the search button: you bound to find ALOT of posts on this. -_-
an emo person is a person who is greatly effected by an overpowering emotion delta made a good example: Happy - Way Too Joyful. Sad - Almost Suicidal. Angry - Insane. Love - Eh Heh Heh Heh... Energetic - Ready To Climb Mt. Everest.
you cant really say that some music is emo because all songs had emotions. you can have a peepy tune for a song and ssad lyrics and still call it emo.
