emotional.

sad, depressed, lost, and all the like.

no, you are not.

you are not emo

I don’t know.

You are definitely not Emo.

For the best definitons, try http://www.urbandictionary.com and search for ‘emo’. Defintions 3, 6, and 7 seem the most accurate.

Melissa

Ah hahahahahahah!  Sorry, it’s just a very funny question to ask.  Heh.

emo is a short term for emotion

you are not emo sir

*alex*

No, you’re not emo

They slit their wrists, write about killing themselves, slit their wrists again, and then get high, have sex with whatever comes close, and then they die. 

and no, Dan you are most definitely not emo

oh yes and um…apparently emo guys like to wear girl jeans.

if you’re gonna be a transvestite just be a transvestite and not make a big cliquey (word?) deal about it.

emo is short for emotional and is a state of mind, as well as a trend in clothing.. much like goth, only not quite so gothic, the music is very whiney and sad… they think that their lives are a bunch of crap.. i don’t really think your emo.. lol

“Emo” is the slang term for those who listen to overly emotional music, which often concentrates solely on loss, sadness, dispair, yearning, and other greiving emotions. It’s also referred to as “emo music”.

They are characterized by black-dyed hair, tight jeans, tight shirts, long bangs, and constant focus on sadness and regret “oh man my girlfriend dumped me. I’m really really hurt. I feel like the black sadness of dispair.”

No, you’re not.

an emo is very similar to a retarded person.

“Emotional” is where it came from originally…assosiated with music, now has become a whole world, a whole style of clothing and actions and music.

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just a guess.

have a great day

You don’t fit the category, nor do you want to. Trust me, I know these things. ;o)

here is an example of emo music

No- you are no emo!

(((((( GRANDMA HUGS ))))))

Lori

emo is emotional…my life sux, i wanna die…etc
you are not emo
who said u are?

I don;t believe that you are emo. Emo stands for emotional. It began as a form of music and grew into pop culture. They are not dark enough to be goth and too soft to be punk. (So what I have heard)

PUNK ROCK WITH A CURFEW THAT WON’T UPSET YOUR PARENTS….

Emo is a type of music and people who listen to this music are classified as emo. Steriotypically an emo kid would be depressed all the time, if he’s a guy he wears tight and/or girls jeans, an emo kid would be really sensitive, write in a diary, and more than likely cut themselves, but I reapeat this is a steiotype. Emo music is really loud, lots of screaming, and its usually about the following: Love, death, being depressed,etc. The most popular emo band right now would probobly be Hawthorn Heights and dude you are so not emo. Hope I helped.

Marisa

Thanks for asking this question. For a minute I thought I wasn’t hip because I didn’t know either, but emo turns out to mean what I already assumed.

Dan. You are the exact opposite of Emo. LOL!

GEESH!! NONE of u ppl ACTUALLY KNO wat EmO IS!! If ur NOt EmO than dont comment!!! serioiusly!! emo=ing emotional dose NOT give you the deffinition of Emo…gosh…..and sumone said that emo encludes hip-hop…ya rite….but watever….

Yes! when you move into a new culture, learn the language. It’s the smart thing to do. It’ll make a person happier in the long run, human beings have always had the need to “fit in”. Adopting the accent of a place is also the way to go.

lol, emo. It’s an epidemic here in Aus! It’s the new Goth, really. But apparently (I quote) “Not as dark”
Characteristics: Tight black or dark pants, hair cut into short spikes at the back and long in front, usually dyed black or black with bright blond streaks… eyeliner… Teenage thing. It’s the new trend and kids EVERYWHERE in Bris have that damned haircut. And it just so happens I had this haircut FIRST about 2 years ago and now I look like a poser… Gah.

Anyway – you’re not emo. I’m sure you’ve figured that out. Ha.

EMO IS SIMPLE.  THE NORMAL SETBACKS IN LIFE THAT WE ALL GO THROUGH, THE ORDINARY BUMPS AND MINOR PROBLEMS, THESE PEOPLE OBSESS AND DWELL OVER UNTIL THEY CREATE SOME SORT OF ARTIFISCAL DEPRESSION FOR THEMSELVES.  THEN THERE ARE THEIR TRADEMARK ATIRE.  THINK GOTHIC PEOPLE IN GIRL’S PANTS AND LONG SCARVES

black hair parted to the side, tight fitting jeans, and some of them cut them selves. no, you’re not emo.

Listen to Fall Out Boy or look at pictures of them. They are emo, and from what I know of you, you are definetly not emo.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as “Emotive Hardcore,” spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term “Emo” as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of “Emotive” Hardcore bands. That’s right, “Emo” was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there – Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there’s still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records’ roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don’t quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so – that’s nothing to make an issue of, since well shit, at least it’s close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided “Well, crap, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I’ll call these bands “emo” – sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock…” and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is “emo.”

Somehow, people decided that “emo” meant “emotional,” which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make “emotional” a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.

Hope that helps.

Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the “horrible pop rock” genre, not the emo genre.

Rites of Spring is emo.

Emo = Bullshit

It’s a simple as that.

dan…hey this is my first comment. i have a question to ask you and a comment to a few of your past posts (i just found your page). can you email me at jcully5 at yahoo dot com?

I haven’t figured out what emo is.  I’ve heard of it but don’t know what it is.

lol emo has lost its meaning by far..emo used to be the kids who didnt fit in,…the girls and guys with black hair and black glasses….white shirts with ties and band pins all over them…messenger bags and the like…that was before it was “cool” to be different…now if you listen to crappy bands like from first to last,your automatically considered emo…i think some unknown person said it best when they said “wheres waldo” was the original emo….its the damn truth….

I have no idea what or who Emo is?

Nice…thanks to the person who listed urban dictionary…Thanks was very funny and also got me to learn how to add links into my posts. So Emo is the new goth? Or the new gay goth? Or the old gay goth that’s new in a “gay goth is so five minutes ago” type of way? I’ve learned something new. I guess this means that goth has become a large enough group to split off…

I think this is why fads are so cyclical. I always had this theory that I called “smallest possible group” theory. I always figured that people had two competing drives: one to be accepted as part of the group, and another to be known as an individual. Where these two drives meet is your “smallest possible group”, that fulfills both your needs. When this group becomes too big, some members have to move on, either by picking new names, new interests, whatever.

A buddy of mine and I came up with this while shooting the breeze around the indoor running track in college. We wondered why all the really good runners were wearing whatever, and all the bad runners were wearing all the coolest gear. Well, it might be that for the good runners, they didn’t need all that crap to put them in a small group…they were already smoking everyone’s butt on the track.

Anyway, maybe that’s what’s going on…Goth is old, gay is too mainstream, so now gay goths just aren’t getting what they need from that so they need a new identity.

Of course, that’s just my two cents…I could be completely wrong

Kosovodad

don’t really know … i just know you are not.

I am also clueless what “emo” is.  Please let us know when you find out.  WOW I noticed a few people provided a dictionary link…how thoughtful

too much emo not good for anybody. for emo music, look no further than death cab for cutie.

You are not even close to emo. Stereotypically, the emo guys like to wear tight women’s jeans. Lots of angled hair cuts that are overly dyed. Tight shirts are often worn as well. A lot of the time they write poetry, most of which is bad.

Wait. So know one can be “emotional” without being considered “emo?”

haha. good lord. what would our ancestors think about us.

this is stupid.

Emo in my opinion is a mindset, a type of music, and a style of dress. The three usually go together. The emo mindset is “my life sucks, everyone hates me because i’m an individual” and etc. The music is many not-well-known bands that have whole CDs about breakups and heartbreak and etc. The lyrics are very deep. There are some mainstream emo bands but the underground scene is huge. The emo style of dress is, for guys, converse low-tops, girl pants, small t-shirts, and thick-rim glasses. But of course there are varying styles “emo” people. It also varies depending on where you live. But that’s just my opinion.

No, Dan, you’re definitely not emo.

Haha!  Emo is a yet another genre in today’s youth, to categorize people who are more “emotional” than their peers.

And no.  You would not be classified as ‘emo.’ 

“Emo” is not short for “Emotional.” “Emo” does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. “Emo” is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. “Emo” is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as “My arms are like pinecones,” and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as “autumn,” “heart,” “knife,” “bleeding,” “leaves,” and “razorblade.”

I just thought I’d clear that up after all of these “definitions” in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was “emo bands.”

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as “Emotive Hardcore,” spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term “Emo” as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of “Emotive” Hardcore bands. That’s right, “Emo” was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there – Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there’s still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records’ roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don’t quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so – that’s nothing to make an issue of, since well shit, at least it’s close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided “Well, fuck, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I’ll call these bands “emo” – sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock…” and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is “emo.”

Somehow, people decided that “emo” meant “emotional,” which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make “emotional” a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.

And you can be emo if you want to be. And stop the emo bashing. Let people be people.
Hope that helps.

My friends and I have just come to associate the word emo with anyone self pitying. In fact, its been so overused, its more of a joke than anything else between us.

Woah woaah what’s this bashing for? Some emo kids are cool. I mean, if you want to wear tight pants, that’s cool with me, do your thing, but not circulation-cut-off pants. That’s weird…

Very emotional.