emos how did they start and please post your comments about them

From many of the comments of his i've read, I doubt it

I've chosen to let people know i'm a furry and my avatar is a furry, I accept any replies and the treatment I get, as I am who I am, so I understand what you mean there equity

 

I think Seph was just trying to relay the point that its not acceptable to hate/pick on someone based on their appearance, social label, or anything just as meaningless.


And what Equity said is so true. We try not to judge, but most people make snap judgements based on how people look. I was talking to my wife the other night about not having very many friends in high school since this subject came up in the forums, and she told me that I was intimidating to people who didn't really know me which is a shame because I'm usually a really nice guy =/

 

i wish my grass was emo so it'd cut itself

 

I thought this fad passed by several years ago. I'm a little confused why this is even a discussion right now.

 

Lol, that's quite witty XD

 

Hmm, I'm depressed half the time, but I don't cut myself, I never have... Instead, I slam my head on things at least it gets rid of my headaches for some weird reason xD.
I listen to emo music a lot too, but I listen too almost every other kind there is too lol.
But the only thing about me that looks emo is my hair color (black, usually with streaks) and the color of my clothes lawl.

 

oh god that reminds me of my friend back in high school. "Leon, I'm gonna kill my self" my friend said that every day and yet he's still alive.

 

"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.


Hope that helps.

Also it means "Aunt" in Korean? o.o

 

Jesus man carm down. Everybody is entitled to think what they want. I on the other hand like to think emo's are emotional pussy's, but that's my opinion.

 

We all face stereotypes sadly. In the light of your posting though, I'll generalize my definition to the people that live around here. They act totally stereotypical and (like me) didn't know what Emo really meant.