what exactly is an emo kid?
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EMOtional ... it's where they think it's cool to be depressed.   Over-wrought with emotions.  They are experiencing life and love for the first time and being overly melodramatic about it.  I'll update in a second with some funny links about this for you ... check back in a minute, OK ?\n\n/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92; UPDATED /&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;\n\nCheck the link below ... sorry, more links there, but the videos will do very good to inform you of what EMO culture really is ... a joke.
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Emo=emotinal, cut their wrist every freaking time they feel bad, hear Hawthorne Heights, MCR, ect, anything that is punk, heavy metal ect. wear really tight pants, black eyeliner, bangs are definitely emo, thick rimmed glases, hate their life, are bisexual, wear Vans of the wall, Converse all star, lotta stuff, but if you wanna hear it in a comedy, go see the emo song by andy and andrew :)
820270
looks like a girl. hard to tell nowadays. i went to an underground show and all these emo's were there, i couldnt seperate the guys from the girls. what i would like to know is where you got the picture.
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Basically, emo started as a musical movement around 1985.  It was an offshoot of punk music, but the lyrics were introspective, a first of that genre.  This earned it the nickname "emocore", or "emotional hardcore."  These bands include Embrace and Rites of Spring.  Later, this style progressed into more melodic music, like Sunny Day Real Estate and caP'n jazz.  Today, emo is used to describe an "alternative" trend, involving pop-rock music and a certain style of clothing.  Though emo is considered to have died out in 1995, kids continue to use the label on popular bands like My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday and Hawthorne Heights.
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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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These are stereotypes, so this can only be based on opinion and society... so please nobody say I said something wrong or "hey, I'm goth/emo and I'm not _____".\n\nGoths are usually people who dress in black and hate other people. They only open up to few people. They do not show off their hate or sadness. They wear dark makeup, but they don't necessarialy scribble all over their faces. The girls wear skirts a lot. Fishnets are also "gothy". Boys and girls both wear baggy pants with chains. Real goths would never call themselves goth, and if someone was to call them as such they may get angry. The feeling of goth is more of anger.\n\nEmos are pretty much people trying to be goth. They write dramatic poems and many are "cutters". They basically show off their emotion. They can wear black, but they also wear tight, tight, tight pants a lot. It is usually said that the emo boys "steals their sister's makeup and jeans". They are also usually vegan or vegetarian. They too wear dark makeup, but a lot of times it's eyeliner lines representing crying. Most emos will call themselves emo, but a lot of times people will be like "Giggle!! I'm so emo!!" but they're just posers. The feeling of emo is a lot more sad than goth.
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Err, please don't call that stuff emo.  Emo is a whole other form of music, more closely related to punk, which basically died out in 95.  Think Rites of Spring.\n\nAbout the music you described, I guess everyone has their own tastes.
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Emo(tional).  Get it?
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You can usually tell an 'Emo' from a fashion view by floppy girlish hair (usually in face/over eyes) or big afro-style hairstyles on boys tight-fitting hipster jeans/chords, the colours black, red and purple. Longsleeved shirts where the cuffs come down over the hands. Loving to be miserable attitude. Think most of the poppish rock bands on the music channels. \n\nMany emos look like a cross between a modern goth and part hippy.\n\nSkaters are exactly that- skaters. Or people who want to dress like skaters- Avril Lavigne would love to be called a skater (but she's not... shudder). Below knee length shorts, padded trainers, hooded tops.\n\nChavvies are 'chavs'. You can usually tell a chav (from a fashion perspective) by large baseball cap either placed high on head or very low, hooded top (with hood over baseball cap), no socks, white trainers, tracksuit bottoms (usually white or blue for boys, pink for girls) hitched up about 2 inches above foot to show off ankles, gold chains, skin-tight ponytails for girls, big gold hoop earrings and really bad anti-social attitudes.  Other things to look out for is teenage pregnancy, bad housing estates, mobile phones, theft and burberry. Only available in the UK ;-)
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Emo kids are the kids that cut themselves.
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Because most people feel that Emo kids are acting like it for attention & because it's trendy & that irritates people. Everyone has problems & feels depressed at times, but Emo kids try to shove it down everyone's throats & make a statement by being so meloncholy, and it's irritating.
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Emo is a term for emotion based music.  Lots of angsty hurtness, you know?  I like it.  There's also screamo, which I'm definitely not a fan of.  It's emotion based "you broke my heart, I wish I was dead inside" mixed with metal-ish screaming.  Not my thing.
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Hawthorne Heights is concidered very 'emo' because of that.\nBut I really don't think 'emo' really means anything. Emo stands for emotional. Everybody has emotions. What makes people who like to classify them as having emotions different than everyone else?
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Emo kids are 'emotional' - generally sad or nostalgic. They often dwell on things they can't, or no longer, have. Many lament about lost loves or unrequited loves and they also have a fondness for acoustic music. \n\nGothic kids are 'unique' - sometimes angry and more often just acting out in order to prove that they are different then everyone else and that they don't fit into a generalization or stereotype. \n\nIn all reality both 'groups' are just cliche, stereotypical, gross generalizations and no person can totally be defined by a single, simple label.
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Originally a type of music, "emo" is short for emotive. In popular culture it is used to refer to a sub-culture of the Goths, i.e. those who adopt the Goth look because they are so depressed and emotional rather than angry and rebellious. Emo kids are into self-injury to express their feeling of rejection.\n\nSee also, teenage angst.
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They are a really popular emo band, emo is like a subdivision of indie rock, if you didn't know.\nThey're awesome, btw
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i am an emo girl and i have lots of emo friends...\n\nfind them at libraries, coffee shops, book stores, art museums and music venues like concerts, music stores etc... bookish and artistic people are moody people-- mostly known as emo people... you'll enjoy hanging around them for they can easily relate to you... some people mistaken bookish and artistic people as nerds... but that's wrong.. not all are nerds... most are emo people. :)