Originally posted by ourlovewasgonex
emo is just a shortened word for = emotional.
emotionally depressed really explains it.
right now, emo is basically what people try to look like.
but they don't realize that a white studded belt & that crap is just materialistic.
emo is not just the way you act, its also the music this " emo " person listens to.
fall out boy is emo except now its under the mainstream infliction now.
note how fall out boy have been a band for like is it 5 years? well since they made their first album & mtv put them up for a " new artist of the year " award.
they are no longer considered much of an emo band, more of a simple plan type band now..
people tend to think its boys who have long hair, cut, cry, wear tight pants & shirts. have messenger bags with pins & wear dark colors.
but there are also girls who do the same.
there's a difference between the real emo & the poser emo.
real emo is based on their emotions & music.
& poser emo is based on mainstream music & the appearance.
you can dress the " emo " part & act emo & not be an emo poser but it depends if your doing for the attention or not.
well; i hope i somewhat help & its stupid to fight over an asked definition of emo.
it's people like you that give genuine Emotional Hardcore (im going to use the full name, not the short-hand 'emo' from now one because obviously people are too stupid to retain that information for more than a few posts.) a band name, you try defend it when you actually fight yourself into their hands because you don't know what you're talking about
yea sure, Emotional Hardcore happened because bands enfused poetic introspective lyrics and more melodic musicianship into Hardcore... but that doesn't mean they ****ing whinged etc. if any of you actually listened to the bands that are genuinely Emotional Hardcore you'd realise how stupid you all sound.
Fugazi and Jawbreaker are both Punk bands, but theyre also both Emotional Hardcore Bands (shorted to emo-core) - and if any of you actually listened to either of them, i assure you you'll be pleasently surprised.
Also, Hardcore Emo and true Screamo are heavier and louder and more chaotic than anything in the rest of the Punk Genre, listen to Angel Hair, Swing Kids (the Locusts old band) and even stuff like Saetia and Orchid and you'll realise how stupid you sound for calling all 'emo kids' whiney little kids who hate their parents.
"I am the horizon. I have dreamed of tracing rings around this world. My arms are stretched to forever. My fingers shake with the fear of control. The fear I know you all know so well. We all lay claim to our destinies. Yet we all rise and fall with the current." - Saetia - Postlapsaria
note the word parents, cry and any other hugely whinging words are distinctly absent.
learn about music before you slate it, or you just come away looking like a bunch of dumbarses