OK so what does emo mean???
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emo is when you're totally heartbroken and sometimes you wear eyeliner (boy or girl) and you usually have a emo girlfriend/boyfriend.  you love to wear lots of black and you have skin tight black pants.  when you're emo you dont care about anybody and you almost hate the world. you love to listen to emo music that totally relates to you. you quote emo music lines. basically, you're sad all the time...
183013
HAHAH lol actually emo comes from the term emotional, but it is actually more than that. Emo is the term used for the people who put in their IM names that they will kill themselves, and put pictures in their sites of them cutting themselves and taht sort of thing. Emo people who arent out for attention usually get picked on anyway and its kinda sad. But emo is just attention looking people who do it in the way that they say they are cutting themselves or going to commit suicide.
1143590
I have no clue why. Emo equals weird!
949662
eh??? what does that mean?
562194
Emo   \n \n Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle.\n\n\n"indie" is an abbreviation of "independent"; it means music that is published by an independent record label (not owned by a "big" label)
335606
Hey,I've heard that song,it's from Adam & Andrew. "I must be Emo". Yup,I saw them on myspace. Anyway....\nEmo started out as music. Now,it has it's own type of clothing. Tight pants,and the emo hair. Goths wear black. People who listen to rap wear baggy clothes. They all have their different styles. Everyone thinks their cool,everyone wants to be cool.They don't necessarily have to be form a certain group such as emo.
110650
It means you listen to emo music (emotional).  People will probobly hate you for that.
1187697
Emo(tional).  Get it?
681736
Chill out.  "Emo" is a term way over-used by the generation who's most guilty of it.  Most things people call "emo" though, aren't really, and it's starting to piss me off.\n\nEmo is hyper-emotional.  Poetry is already MEANT to be emotional.  To have an "emo" poem you would have to have it so crammed full of emotional pointless crap that you probably couldn't even really call it a poem.  Just write what you feel, discard the bad and learn from it, improve the good and learn from that as well.
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I understand where you're coming from, my mom is basically clueless to the teen styles/social classes. EMO is short for emotional. at an age of changing hormones and fighting to fit in, if ppl don't find a place in the social chain where they can fit in, then they often start to block out alot of the world around them and try to seek shelter inside their mind hoping somehow they'll find a friend. EMO kids usually wear kind of a mix of rocker/punk/goth clothing but not full strand to either one. like a typical emo kid would prolly have a black shirt sporting a heavy metal band or just skulls flames and stuff like that, dark colored jeans usually tight, wristbands to their elbows, spikey dyed hair, and other dark colored accessories. hope after you get through decoding all of my ramblings that this helps.
575016
i am kinda emo...emo is not JUST about cutting yourself it is also about ROCKING OUT.  but it does talk about how life can suck and how nobody understands them.  simple plan, good charlotte, green day, mcr, aar, they are all good examples.
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Most people in this question has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. I'm not going to go into too much more detail, but emo does not mean emotional. Emo is not Fall Out Boy, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Hawthorne Heights, Dashboard Confessional, etc. They are pop bands nothing more. You don't listen to emo, and I'm willing to bet that you never have. Emo is style of hardcore music that is short for emotive hardcore. It originated in Washington D.C. It is widely regarded that the bands Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, and few others started it in the mid 80's. Rites of Spring being one of the best and most well known. They took their music in a more personal direction with a far greater sense of experimentation. Emo bands aren't on major record labels either. Emo is anti-corporate. It's what defined the bands, and it's what still defines those bands today. You will never find an emo band on Vagrant, Geffen, Drive-Thru, etc. Those bands aren't emo, and never will be.\n\nIf you want real emo check out:\n\nYaphet Kotto\nPolicy Of Three\nPortraits Of Past\nHeroin\nAntioch Arrow\nGlass And Ashes\nPlanes Mistaken For Stars\nOrdination Of Aaron\nCurrent\nSaetia\nHot Cross\nCircle Takes The Square\nA Day In Black And White\nFour Hundred Years\nSinaloa\nThey And The Children\nHow To Beat A Dead Horse\nAmpere\nAppleseed Cast\nRites of Spring\netc.\n\nIf you actually take the time to listen to these bands, you will see that it is the vocals and music that makes a band emo, not lyrics. And band such as Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, and Hawthorne Heights, do not have those musical and vocal characteristics.\n\nSo, no Green Day is not emo, they are extremely far from it. They are pop-punk.\n\nP.S. Emo has nothing to do with hairstyle or dress.
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Emo (an abbreviation of "emotionally-driven Hardcore punk") is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punk's limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. It is also used to describe fans of this genre, most commonly teenagers. (e.g., emo kid). The actual term "emo" originated in the mid-1980s D.C. scene, with the band Rites of Spring, as well as bands such as Fugazi, Moss Icon, and Antioch Arrow. ...
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Emo is a really broad term and means different things to different people.  Weezer's new songs sound really cheezy and have that theme of longing and teen angst (like EMO), but there's not that deep self-hatred that Emo bands love putting in their songs.  Plus, as high as Rivers Cuomo's voice is, it's not nearly Emo-whiny enough.  I definitely miss the early 90's Weezer.
666519
Hey everybody....what's up with EMO?
764479
Well, the line between "emo" and "goth" can be very slim.  That's one of the things that is so awful about labels - they can have different meanings for different people.\n\nWhy would you use either label?  Why not talk with your Mom about the things you worry or care about, and leave the labels behind?\n\nGood luck!
622600
emo used to be just a type of music. and emo beliefs aren't different. emo kids are said to be more emotional but emo isn't even short for emotional if you actually know what it means. and emo isn't necessarily dashboard confessional or hawthorne heights. it wasn't when the term first originated.\n\ncharacteristics: side bangs, band shirts, guys in girl pants, often associated with being bi or gay or being a cutter\n\nemo teens just are another stereotype\nyes, maybe they are in touch with their emotions but it's not exactly what it was supposed to be.\nemo kids are generally more understanding of different things... such as homosexuality, different races, etc.\nit's just another way of expression