What IS emo?

What exactly is emo?
I this girl told me its like goth, but on a lesser scale?
Theres this fake emo girl in my class and shes all like poser emo and she isn't emo at all, and we allways make fun of her because she wears fake lip rings and says there real, and puts nude pics of herself on the internet and first says its not her then she says HER SISTER TOOK THEM, EWWW! and she asked this other girl what her favorite band was and she said, My Chemical Romance and she said My Chemical Romance, ITS NOT YOURS! God I cant stand her shes so dumb.
Please explain this emo thing to me?

Emotional

Emo's some kinda weird music lover ;S

emo is a genre of music; emotive hardcore..

but stupid wannabe posers label themselves as it. if you say your emo your not emo ;)

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Originally Posted by Kaye

emo is a genre of music; emotive hardcore..

but stupid wannabe posers label themselves as it. if you say your emo your not emo ;)

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utto kassie here we go agen kthxslit lmao xD

Emo music = emotionally charged punk.

My definition of real emos = posers who take black and white pictures of themselves with a tear on one cheek.
http://www.dobi.nu/emo/

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Originally Posted by eamonns

utto kassie here we go agen kthxslit lmao xD

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ehehhee lmao

Do they wear converse shoes?
and dress in black and talk about killing them selves all the time?

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Originally Posted by Expedition.

Do they wear converse shoes?
and dress in black and talk about killing them selves all the time?

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they go -emocry- +slitswrists+

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Originally Posted by Expedition.

Do they wear converse shoes?
and dress in black and talk about killing them selves all the time?

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yeah basically
the posers do

Basically, they're Emotional. That's just what emo is now. It's nothing to do with music.

K why are you unbanned and I'm not on Klock? :/

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Originally Posted by Klock.

K why are you unbanned and I'm not on Klock? :/

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Mine was 10 days, I was unbanned on the 21st.

ermm ash pls dnt start this emo topic all over agen.

I'll admit, I'm kind of a prep at school, but we have a couple emos at our school, a funny song making fun of emo kids can be found here :

http://emosong.ytmnd.com/

Lmao, it's hilarious :')

MY BAN WAS LIKE

JACKHB: *POWER PERM BAN KLOCK!!11* :'(

I have jet black hair, have my fringe over one eye, put a word that relates to red in every dreary pathetic song i make plus i am yet to reach puberty. I would kill myself if i didnt love myself so much.

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Originally Posted by birdsdontfly

I'll admit, I'm kind of a prep at school, but we have a couple emos at our school, a funny song making fun of emo kids can be found here :

http://emosong.ytmnd.com/

Lmao, it's hilarious :')

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OMG,
DOES IT GO LIKE
guys look like girls and girls look like d***s because emo's 1 step away from transfestite?

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Originally Posted by Trunks

Basically, they're Emotional. That's just what emo is now. It's nothing to do with music.

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Yup, thats right mate.

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Originally Posted by Expedition.

OMG,
DOES IT GO LIKE
guys look like girls and girls look like d***s because emo's 1 step away from transfestite?

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Yup lol, that's the one.. howcome?

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Originally Posted by birdsdontfly

I'll admit, I'm kind of a prep at school, but we have a couple emos at our school, a funny song making fun of emo kids can be found here :

http://emosong.ytmnd.com/

Lmao, it's hilarious :')

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i posted that "/

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Originally Posted by Kaye

i posted that "/

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I don't care? :-)

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Originally Posted by birdsdontfly

I don't care? :-)

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aww, i love you too.

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Originally Posted by birdsdontfly

I don't care? :-)

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Omg you idiot *stab*

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Originally Posted by Klock.

Omg you idiot *stab*

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ehehe

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Originally Posted by Klock.

Omg you idiot *stab*

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LOL!

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Originally Posted by Kaye

ehehe

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lmao ehehehe

Well emo actually used to mean something, now its just a style. The majority of emos today are kids who have great lives and have nothing to complain about, but they like to pretend they have tragic problems and pretend to be depressed for attention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo - Everything you could ever want to know abotu Emo's.

It originally started in 1985 and ended in 1994, but has made some weird comeback recently thanks to bands like The Used and My Chemical Romance.

The Third Wave (2000–Present)

At the end of the 1990s, the underground emo scene had almost entirely disappeared. However, the term "emo" was still being bandied about in mainstream media, almost always attached to the few remaining 90s emo acts, including Jimmy Eat World.

However, towards the end of the 1990s, Jimmy Eat World had begun to shift in a more mainstream direction. Where Jimmy Eat World had played emocore-style music early in their career, by the time of the release of their 2001 album Bleed American, the band had almost completely removed its emo influences. As the public had become aware of the word "emo" and knew that Jimmy Eat World was associated with it, the band continued to be referred to as an "emo" band. Newer bands that sounded like Jimmy Eat World (and, in some cases, like the more melodic emo bands of the late 90s) were soon included in the genre.

2003 saw the success of Chris Carrabba and Dashboard Confessional. Carrabba's music featured lyrics founded in deep diary-like outpourings of emotion. Where earlier emo had featured lyrics of a more dark and painful direction, Carrabba's featured a greater focus on love won and lost and the inability to cope. While certainly emotional, the new "emo" had a far greater appeal amongst teenagers experiencing love for the first time, who found solace in Carrabba's words and music.

With Dashboard and Jimmy Eat World's success, major labels began seeking out similar sounding bands. Whereas Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the other Seattle scene bands of the early 1990s were unwillingly lumped into the genre "grunge", the labels wanted to be able to market a new sound under the word "emo". Which sound that was didn't particularly matter.

In turn, the term "emo" shifted to describe a form of music entirely different from its forebearers. And, in an even more expanded way than in the 90s, the term came to encompass an extremely wide variety of bands, many of whom had very little in common. Today, "emo" is often used to describe such wide-ranging bands as Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, Brand New, Something Corporate, The Used, A Static Lullaby, From First To Last, Finch, Silverstein, From Autumn To Ashes, Hawthorne Heights,and My Chemical Romance.

The epicenter of this third wave shifted, as well. Where its major origins were once California and Arizona, the new movement had (and has) changed coasts completely. As members, fans, critics, and disapprovers can attest, the new mecca of emo is the outlying areas bordering New York City and the Tri-State Area, such as New Jersey and Long Island. Many of the current crop of bands (and, subsequently, their early fanbases) originated in this region of the country and progressed outward.

In many cases, "new emo" bands are simply trying to pursue their own version of the "emo" that came before on their own terms. However, the backlash stemming from the success of a few seemingly "less emo" (and more popular in the mainstream) bands, including Dashboard and The Used, has brought an increasingly substantial pool of detractors of the genre.

In a strange twist, screamo, a sub-genre of the new emo, has found greater popularity in recent years through bands such as Thrice and Glassjaw. The term "screamo", however, was used to describe an entirely different genre in the early 1990s, and the bands themselves more resemble the emocore of the early 1990s. (As a reference, see Jim DeRogatis' November 2002 article about Screamo.)

As a result of the continuing shift of "emo" over the years, a serious schism has emerged between those who ascribe to particular eras of "emo". Those who were closely attached to the hardcore origins recoil when another type of music is called "emo". Many involved in the independent nature of both 80s and 90s emo are upset at the perceived hijacking of the word "emo" to sell a new generation of major label music. Regardless, popular culture has embraced the terms of "emo" far beyond their original intentions, out of the control of the independent-minded.
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Backlash

As the chorus of detractors increased, emo came more and more a focus of derision. Like the Goth scene, people who focus on emo music tend to share a dark and emotional psyche that often makes them feel outside the mainstream. They tend to thrive on the emotional ups and downs that are brought out in the music. Detractors often joke for emo fans to "lighten up", and point out what they see as an inherent irony in bonding between self-proclaimed outcasts.

At the same time, fans of other rock genres accuse emo of being too "soft" and sappy. Many genres of rock rely on aggression and anger, which, by comparison, makes some forms of emo seem lightweight.

In the early years of the "third wave", the derision was relatively light-hearted and self-effacing. In September of 2002, web developer Jason Oda put forth Emogame. In the game, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith kidnapped The Get-Up Kids, and players could assume the identities of several popular emo singers (including Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes) to fight him and his minions, along with more or less every subculture in the American landscape. The game referenced numerous emo stereotypes, but also included pop culture references such as R2-D2 from Star Wars. The game was well-received by both fans and critics of emo alike, eventually spawning multiple sequels.

In recent years, the derision has increased dramatically. Male fans of emo are often hit with homosexual slurs, largely a reflection of the "nerd" style of dress popular within the emo scene and the fact that in many cultures, males are expected to be stalwart and strong, not overly emotional; emotions are "weak" and "feminine". That mentality, however, hasn't stopped people from enjoying the style and music of the emo scene.

"Emo" continues to develop and expand in unpredictable ways. As with punk rock, the term "emo" may persist for years to come and evolve into even more styles and sounds. As the old proverb says, "History is written by the victors," and it remains to be seen which version of the genre will be accepted as the popular consciousness of "emo".

Yeh only me and kassie are emo's and the other 20 emos on the forum.

I think this forum is slightly too emo obsessed/charged.

Sure, loads of people love "emo" music. I do too, some of it.
Sure, loads of people like to dress like that. I do too, sometimes.

Big deal.

It's just a label though. I don't think anyone should be labeled, ultimately.
All of a sudden it's like a competition, "I am more emo than you. :|"
Sheesh, maybe for once try to befriend these people, they have the same interests as you, no? Instead of making it into a competition of who fits a general stereotype more than the other.

And what the hell is 'posers' all about, isn't that just a way of one "emo" undermining another "emo". Hey, if they want to dress like that and listen to that and do that, they can, and if they're just doing it to fit in, they can. Who're you to say they can't, and give them yet another label for that?

:rolleyes:

Emo stands for Emotive Hardcore.
It used to be about what kind of music you listened to.
Now its turned into a fashion statement...
Unforunatly.
Im admitting there's loads of posers.
And all you guys who hate me can say im a poser.
but im not :)

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Do they wear converse shoes?

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They stole it from the BBallers I tells ya! Converse were originally a basketball trainer, but the posers turned them into an 'emo/poser' fashion sadly :rolleyes:

god you lot are all so sad.

"OMGZ U POSER IM MORE 'EMO' THAN YOU"

jezz get a life who cares!

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Originally Posted by brunojrthechao

god you lot are all so sad.

"OMGZ U POSER IM MORE 'EMO' THAN YOU"

jezz get a life who cares!

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-slitswrists- you cant beat my emo-ness -emocry-

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-slitswrists- you cant beat my emo-ness -emocry-

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Eamonn, you can stop it now, being stupid, nobody finds you funny.
And if your gonna say 'im not meant to be funny'
Well it sure looks like you want attention from other people.
So shut the hell up.

Oh Great
Thankyou So Much For Starting Another Emo Thread Which Will Start Cabillions Of Arguments.

To add also, I think the whole Emo thing has been rinsed to its max now.

Emo...
Emo fashion, emo music, or emo trend?
Emo music is emotional music. People singing about emotional things. Simple.
Emo fashion... well, you should know that by now. Everyone's wearing it. o_o; (Yeah, emo fashion includes Converse.)
Emo trend. These are the people who make fun of people slitting their wrists. Really not funny anymore. (Was it ever?)

Who said if someone says "I'm emo" they're a poser? I forget. If I say "I'm normal." does it make me a poser normal? Is the difference between an emo poser and a "real emo" the fashion, or saying you're emo?

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Originally Posted by Flunky-Sunset!

Emo...
Emo fashion, emo music, or emo trend?
Emo music is emotional music. People singing about emotional things. Simple.
Emo fashion... well, you should know that by now. Everyone's wearing it. o_o; (Yeah, emo fashion includes Converse.)
Emo trend. These are the people who make fun of people slitting their wrists. Really not funny anymore. (Was it ever?)

Who said if someone says "I'm emo" they're a poser? I forget. If I say "I'm normal." does it make me a poser normal? Is the difference between an emo poser and a "real emo" the fashion, or saying you're emo?

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Its just that nowdays, theres two sides to an emo (True Emo) and (Emo Poser).
One of which does everything to be an Emo, then rambles on about something else.
Like proporclone said, this forum is Emo obsessed, it driving me nuts.
And anyway, why should people catagorise themselves? they are who they are ( that was a message to everyone :) )