EMO, Why?

However, you are actually ignoring that the fact that you are conforming to the status of "emo" that is anything but unique, it is a trend that is followed by sheep who attempt to gain attention from their peers.

In order to be unique you cannot conform to a trend, if you really want to be unique be a trend setter, but then you will just be recognized as another sheep in the flock.

The only status i can agree is unique in some way or form is punk, because each punk is different and the styles are always changing. Emo is just tight black pants, mascara, emo fringe and a dull, non responsive, non intelligent, lack of personality.

 

Emos are "emotionally-driven Hardcore punk"-ers
There is no reason to change what people want to be. are they affecting your life? I doubt it.

 

agreed=)

 

I don't know about the rest of emo's (or if I am even considered emo myself) but I try less to stand out, and more to not be like the rest of the, as someone else put it, "Fagercrombie and Bitch" boys, and dumbass jocks, etc, etc. I could care less if I conform to the emo status (although that status, as well, has its cons, I like it better than the aforementioned Fagercrombies). I just be myself, and happen to fall into the group I hate the least.

 

I have two thoughts on emos:

Real emos: You need professional help, fast.
Wannabe emos: You're not being special or unique by following a trend, drop it.

 

I have NOTHING agaisnt emos that aren't idiots (if you cut yourself and whine about your life all day, gtfo)...but how can you be unique if most of the United States has caught on to the emo trend? You aren't really unique anymore.

 

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Smr

 

e·mo·tion·al /ɪˈmoʊʃənl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-moh-shuh-nl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
2. subject to or easily affected by emotion: We are an emotional family, given to demonstrations of affection.
3. appealing to the emotions: an emotional request for contributions.
4. showing or revealing very strong emotions: an emotional scene in a play.
5. actuated, effected, or determined by emotion rather than reason: An emotional decision is often a wrong decision.
6. governed by emotion: He is in a highly emotional state of mind.


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[Origin: 1840–50; emotion + -al1]

—Related forms
e·mo·tion·al·ly, adverb


—Synonyms 2. temperamental, effusive, demonstrative, sentimental.
—Antonyms 2. undemonstrative, unsentimental, inexpressive.
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I don't see


"Wear's strange fashion", or "Act's different than everyone else" on there.


FAIL.. courtesy of Webster.

 

Webster FTW.
But Deacon, did you see my thread that got closed?
Or any of you?

 

yeah i saw <.<... oh well

 

Not to mention the whole world, we have been enslaved by the wretched fringe! Save us!

 

I think Emo kids are really dumb.
I'm 15, and i know some Emo/goth kids.
When I compare my life with theres, I actually thinks "Wow, Hes so lucky. I wish i can escape my life and live on his." the fact is. GROW UP.
If you think you're suffering pain, Come live in my life for a day or two. If you think my life isnt anything, Go live in a fucking thirdworld country where you dont know you would get a meal.

 

I second that. Emo is a term originally used for more emotional sounding hardcore and started as a put down for embrace listeners. Deacon Frost what you are talking about is just fuckin retarded, claiming it like an achievement is even worse.

EDIT: Just read this

Thats the definition of "emotional" not "emo".

"Emo" is emotionally charged hardcore and now a trend in which boys can try and hide their ugly face with a fringe and take stupid posing pictures for their myspace while putting captions like "cut my throat" and "you dont care". The kids you see in malls and at school all dressed up with makeup and straightened fringes over their eyes are "attention seekers" and probably wouldnt know the first thing about emo or hardcore.

"emotional" is not being in control of your emotions or having strong emotions.

Cutting yourself or causing yourself pain is being a "self-mutilator" or in better terms courtesy by clashfan a "dumb fuck". Or just plain mentally disturbed.

 

Removed for flaming.

 

Badger, I wasn't BRAGGING about it, I wasn't even implying that I was happy with how I was..

If I WAS happy about it I would still be like that.


EMO dividend of EMOTIONAL .. That's why I gave you that definition.

You people are talking about a trend.. not an EMO. You are talking about posers...yes.. DUMB FUCKS.. not the REAL "EMO"s.

^Again, just the trend. Not a real emo >.>

Exactly..and since EMO comes from EMOTIONAL...uh.. yeah.. EMO's don't have control of their emotions, and or they have strong emotions.

It is bad, but often times emotional people are self-mutilator's. That is one of the signs of depression, which is caused by having strong emotions. Thus proving my point that not many of these stupid little girly-boys are emos. They are in sense of the word "Posers". They are not real. They are pretend.

I told you what I used to do because I was classified with depression. I was highly emotional, and I could not control them. Thus I hurt myself. I was a REAL "EMO".


Uh, not much more to say till someone tries to rebuttal <.<...

 

This whole "emo" thing is out of control. It's become a universal rank, there is no definition for being "emo," nearly everyone has a different opinion on what an "emo" is defined as.

Just take a look at this thread, we have many people claiming to be an emo, but they all define emo as a different thing. One user says emos are people who stand out, they are non-conformists and do things their own way, another user claims being emo isn't about standing out (which I assume is extremely fashion related, per say the black clothes, tight jeans and long fringe) but about going through a very hard life and inflicting pain upon oneself to release emotional stress, another user says it's also not about standing out, but not standing out.

The term emo is just thrown around these days, certain people are "real" emos and others are "scene kids" who pretty much pretend to be emos. There's people who believe that there was a way people acted which was defined as emo before everyone started dismissing anything actually emotional (usually in a music sense) to be emo.

What is Emo?

What ever the hell you want it to be.

If you say to yourself, I am an emo, due to whatever you have experienced in your life or any reasons that you'd want to do this, then hey, you're an emo. To define emo comes down to a personal opinion of whoever choses to define it. Sure, some people might agree with a particular opinion more than another, I mean, if I went out and said that 50 Cent was an emo then that'd be how I chose to define emo, sure many, many people would disagree, but it'd be my personal opinion that'd matter to me. If you want to be emo, then have your own personal opinion on what an "emo" is and comply to it, therefore, in your eyes at least, you are an emo.

If you want my personal opinion on the subject (and hey it has to be slotted in somewhere) then I really believe that the term "emo" derived from the instant fame and success of bands which, they claimed, try to show the problems, hatred and general hard issues of life that every teenager (or person for that matter) faces in one way or another, the first of these, if I recall correctly and many of you will agree, would be the band Simple Plan. At the time this sort of music was something relatively new and pretty cool, sure having every song on your album be about how hard life is (and lets face it, that's how it was) was not seen before, even if this kind of music was really a variant of probably nearly all punk, grunge and anti-establishment music, the difference being that music prior to this new "Emo" genre was usually directed at something or someone in anger, like punk, which was very often really angered music directed at the government.

Now as this band, Simple Plan, achieved great success with their "hate-everything-but-in-a-sad-way-not-an-angry-way" music and their albums sold like wildfire, this emo music was liked by so many people who thought this band had got it so right, that life was so hard and they could express themselves in the ways the music defined, that the trend (and that's what it essentially was, a trend) of being emo grew and grew, that it became that these people who claimed they lived such hard lives (and maybe many of them did) grew so much in numbers that the irony of the matter was that so many people were doing their best trying to be "individual" they soon became the conformists due to the fact so many people dressed as they did.

The hatred (or at least dislike) of those who were "emo" came about, in my opinion, for a few reasons. The first being that there had always been general dislike, or at least apprehension for people like Goths and other sorts of people who were, unlike the newest emo craze, actually the minority at their time and therefore people didn't really pay much attention to them. If you listened to some grunge metal or punk rock, people aren't going to go call you a Goth because they were much more of a minority and people didn't know much about them or how they thought, unlike emos who appeared with the bands like Simple Plan in great numbers. Though these days I've had people call me "emo" because I listen to Nirvana, simply because the whole emo scene and trend has opened a porthole for people to dismiss any kind of music they don't like to be emo.

Over time the term emo was just thrown around, used by people to disregard any band they disliked or didn&#8217;t understand the music of, that these days anyone seemingly sad, unwilling to get involved or just generally unhappy could be called an emo by many people. Like the term &#8220;Gay&#8221; being used as an insult, &#8220;emo&#8221; has become the new word to define music that might have a hint of angriness, sadness or just general emotion. Punk rock is emo, metal is emo, grunge is emo, rock itself, which these are pretty much all just forms of, is bloody emo.

What is emo?

These days, I have no bloody idea.

 

Add one word to that and you've got your stereotypical "emo"

"Not try hard posers posers"

They are posers posing to be not posers.

 

Theres a broad line between what most people consider EMO, and what they make fun of people for.

EMO, based on the steryotypical view is a kid who is an attention whore, whines about his problems, wears tight clothes, long bangs, etc.

Some people are called EMO for either having black hair with longer bangs, being antisocial, etc.

The first group are a bunch of posers seeking attention by saying.. "Oh, no one likes me." out loud where everyone can hear. The second group, are either just kids dressing how they want to, or people that genuinely have problems.

I agree that the steriotypical definition of EMO says that they do NOT stand out. Most people are conformists, and it's slightly depressing.

 

Summed up, in a nutshell.

 

Emo was the first shift from standard hardcore, bands like fugazi, embrace and rites of spring.

Now it is used to describe anything that may have a hit of emotion to it.