How do you guys define emo?
 

I no u'll say it's "emotional punk" but there has to be a lil more to it? Cause Like anger and stuff is enotion so like all punk is emotionful? I Just Wanna Know If There Is Anything Else That Can Define Emo?

not the anger type of emotion. sadness, depression, apathy.

Emo does stand for emotional but i tend to think of it as very introspective rock music that is usually on the softer side of things and has heartfelt lyrics.

tight pants, black hair, band shirt, studded belt, wrist band, pop punk, not very good at guitar bass or drums, loves dashboard, constantly saddened by their girlfriend, livejournal.

No need to post guys, he's got it down perfectly

no he doesnt...deadjournal

hahaha!!


brilliant.

why define anything? defining would only be limiting it, and putting limitations on music ruins it.

except with one amendment, they'd be constantly saddened by the fact that they don't have a girlfriend, cause lets face it, none of us would go out with the guy you just described, well except the "emo girls" but then they'd just get each other depressed and ebd up comiting suicide together, so they dont really count.

hmmm...im sitting here reading my deadjournal from 9th grade, wearing an 'at the drive in shirt' and thinking about the girl i just broke up with after 8 months....im such a f.a.g my hair got so long it was in my face so i started brushing it to the side like an emop kid too...

Um. The music...uhhhhh like why isn't dashboard emo? If there lyrics are emotional etc! Woah...I simply wanted to ask what emo music was and I got some twats commenting as if it's some kind of trend...is this not a music chat room? I just want to know why some of you disagree when other people say other music is emo??? it's stupid to say it's just emotional punk and then say it's gott other aspects...like the beat etc...and where's the point between pop punk and emo then?

agreed.

just stop talking now.

first off emo does not have to be soft if it wasn’t for hardcore music we wouldn’t have “emo” now if you didn’t know that I don’t even know why you bothered posting on this thread
emo it self can be broke down it to several deferent categories emocore hardcore emo post-emo rock ect… for me to explain emo would take me pages so you can research that your self but to better explain emo I wouldn’t use the word emotional I would the word (passion)

oh god...You people don't even bloody know do you? It's all about being right etc...Lol Swing kids...Why don't you tell me how you define emo music?!!!!!!!! Your an idiot...Did I even ask what there hair was supposed to be like? Or the clothes they wear? Hmmmmm!!!!! You're all so pathetic if you're in a music forum talk about music...in an emo forum talk about emo...Talk about Fu*king music...not "hair" Jeez if I wanted to do that I wouldn't have come in here...I just merely thought you guys may have different views on what emo is but no istead I get told to stop talking...If you guys can't recognise that I wasn't asking what an emo should "look like" but what you thought defined "emo MUSIC" , phew...This forum is rubbish I thought I could come on here and talk about music instead I get attacked for asking a SIMPLE question which was on my mind...

just take a breath why would you let what other people say effect you half of the people that posted are butt plugs that dont know what there are talking about i commend you for trying to further your knowledge and not remain ignorant

to me Emo is - whiney pop music with alot of backup vocals (aka whoa ohs).. To much for my taste.

a great exampl of why mtv sux

HA HA HA BYE BITCH....TAKE SARCASM TO HEART....MUST BE THE ANGER OF YOUR EX GF YOUR LETTING OUT...ITS OK DUDE I CUT MYSELF TOO...

emo is...

Saetia
Spirit Of Versailles
The 1985
The Anasazi
JEROMES DREAM
Orchid
Reversal of Man
Antioch Arrow
Usurp Synapse
Rites of Spring
Hoover
Twelve Hour Turn
Indian Summer
City Of Caterpillar
The Blood Brothers
I, Robot

Emo is not a very high scoring word in Scrabble.

heh, ya sarcasm on the internet doesn't translate well, but come on, that stuff was all so over the top it was still obvious.

active, please do not post again, lest you realize that you are, indeed, a moron.

also, please don't ever ask for a definition of emo, especially via the internet. i've seen too many threads degenerate via mindless arguements.

hehe, i've was called an emo kid in the pub theother night, and afterthat discription i dont think i am one. most emo thing about me ist he fact that i listen to it, have short dark dark brown hair, and um wear black? do sex pistols t-shirts count as band t-shirts, or does ithave to be taking back sunday or a bnad like that? man i wish id read this mesage board before id done my presentation on Emo music! ah well whats done is done

did you even bother to look at any other threads before you posted this? There's a load of threads either asking what emo is or describing it...there's no need to make another thread when you can look at old ones to find your answers

your question is dumb
don't ask dumb questions and you
won't get attacked its just that simple.

Haha, well said *applaudes*

Laughing out loud

How true. Emo is not a genre. Emo is... a state of mind perhaps. So many bands have emo songs, emo albums, emo periods. The "emo band" does not exist.

i know...its equal to the number of complete close-minded retards that make useless posts about nothing.

emo is NOT music. it is a philosophy, a lifestyle, a belief system, a religion, a set of thoughts and ideals that are based as the archetype for ones community, a culture...

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emo and punk are the only genres of music where i see people trying to define them. anyone wanna define rap for me ?(please dont)

talentless clicks and whistles

What about girls in videos? Surely that has SOMETHING to do with it?

I'm so confused now.

emo isnt necessarily punk, i know ill be shunned for this. however, emo is a broad range of music, a very broad one actually. it can come from, and is more mainstream in the punk/rock genre. however it can be found in R&B and rap, sad as it is, music from usher, tupac and immortal technique have found a way to incorperate emotion into their music, thus making them emo.

a lot of people will say emo is a genre specific to punk/rock but i dont think it is, i think its a genre specific to artists who show their true emotions.

Its funny that the thread you all decided was dumb went on for 4 pages.

everything is emo.

agreed