[m3th]

Nuff said.

[cokemongruel]

I actually feel the same way but not entirely, just listen to this. A lot of people who are emo are just people that suffer from depression which is an illness they can't help. But what I don't like is the people who are posers who just dress in black, listen to emo music, and do all this for attention or because they thinks it's cool. A lot of people who are "emo" aren't actually emo. The whole emo thing is just a trend that will pass. Just wait it out if you don't like it, that's what I'm doing.

[Digitalicious]

I think if you cut yourself and then go and tell your friends for the attention, clearly you're not doing it deep enough.

[cokemongruel]

True, true. Thats the emo I don't like.

[Pyro]

Im not Emo. Im HIGHLY Depressed cause you have no Idea what I live through. I could tell you but then you would mostly say im showing off... But anyway.... I cut myself ,TRY to commit suicide but im too scared. I dont act emo or dress like it either. Im funny... So, I guess Im just a wierd guy. I dont discriminate against emos' cause there is no point. Im just like one of them I guess you could say...:eusa_eh:

[nick]

I take anti-depressants but I act normal

[DefectiveProduct]

Taken from a definition I myself submitted to UrbanDictionary, slightly revised.

A band called Rites of Spring formed in 1984. They were the very first emo band.

By this I mean the true and original emo. Not the emo we all know of now days as Hawthorne Heights and Dashboard Confessional, where cutting wrists and wearing eyeliner is the main theme.

When Rites Of Spring banded, the main music at the time was punk rock. But Rites Of Spring took punk music a step further by integrating love into their lyrics. They wrote love songs that still had the punk flare if the '80s in them. Along with highly emotional performances that were more emotional than most bands at the time. And that is what emo really is. A musical genre. Not wearing girl pants and thinking you're life is so miserable.

The word emo supposedly came from the word emocore, which was short for the genre that the Rites Of Spring fit into: Emotional Hardcore. Throughout the '80s and early '90s, that is all the word emo was. But then came the 2000s, and the word emo was slowly becoming a new word with a completely different definition. Modern mainstream bands were inspired by the past emo musical genre. They played it in their own way while changing it. Then came the emo kids. The emo kids usually followed and listened to the newer bands that took after and raped the old emo. A general emo kid consisted of the following things, give or take a few:

- Converse shoes
- (On guys) Girl pants
- Hair covering the eyes
- Band T-Shirts
- Dyed hair, usually black and sometimes mixed with red, brown, blonde, etc
- Often lonely and misunderstood
- Sweaters/hoodys
- Lip, eyebrow, ear, labret and sometimes tongue piercings

For whatever reason, people began using the term emo to describe people who listened to or followed modern emo bands: the emo kids. The original meaning of emo was forgotten and replaced by the definitions you now see on this website. A band being the modern definition of emo is now a bad thing and is often frowned upon or recoiled at. Examples for "emo" bands are as follow:

"Taking Back Sunday? Pfft. They suck. Fucking emo bands."
"hawthorne heightso is so emo, omagahzz cut mai rists n blak me eyes </3"
"Thursday is so emo! I love them!!!"

And examples of negative thoughts towards so called emo kids:

"Cheer up, emo kids."
"Dude, see that kid over there with the Taking Back Sunday shirt, dyed red & black hair, eyeliner, converse and girl pants sitting in the corner alone over there? What a fucking stupid emo dumbass."
"Emo kid: I'm so different. Nobody understands me. Nobody gets me. I HATE MY LIFE. *Slits wrist with a razor blade*"

I gag whenever I hear someone describe a modern band from the 2000s and late '90s as emo. The modern society of teenagers have no idea what the true definition of emo is, where it came from and what it really meant. I just wish the world could know about all of this so that this so called emo plague that has spread over the globe can finally cease.

I just don't understand how the world could turn a musical genre into an insult. What a damn shame.

I'm sure I didn't do a very good job or pay much attention to detail. If you really feel like learning more about the origin of emo, refer to Wikipedia.org and look up the word "emo"

TRUE: Rites Of Spring, Embrace, Dag Nasty.

FALSE: Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Dashboard Confessional, Thrice, Fall Out Boy, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Matchbook Romance, Bright Eyes, Angels & Airwaves, The Get Up Kids, Hawthorne Heights, Coheed And Cambria, Saosin, Saves The Day, Silverstein, The Starting Line, The Used, The Early November, and much much more that I simply cannot think of at this moment.

I don't think I phrased that definition 100% correct though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28music%29

[Kingcoke]

Originally Posted by Digitalicious

I think if you cut yourself and then go and tell your friends for the attention, clearly you're not doing it deep enough.

haha well said

[riggsley]

i just get pretty pissed off at the fake emos. i don't really care what they wear, yes... i can even handle the girl jeans...

i just hate them cause their douches. :violent1:

[Brad]

Emo's suck...I'll kill emos c=||=>