What is your definition of emo?

Burnt Joint · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 4:17 am

since there are so many definitions of the word 'emo', i finally decided to 'take to the streets' and find out what your definitions were.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 4:17 am

Shigeto · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 4:37 am

I don't think there are actual "Emo's" - people who actually are the real definition, who are feeling down, don't describe themselves as "Emo", and those who do define themselves as "Emo" (the pathetic p****s) are just 'Scene kids' following the latest trend and looking for attention ("Oh, I cut myself, sure i did it with a pencil sharpener blade, but LOVE ME!") O_o..sorry if noone agrees but thats my view.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 5:20 am

You can always spot an emo by his hair/clothes. Personalitys are always different. The crap about crying and cutting wrists are just jokes like all goths are devil worshippers and stuff.

It's the chav generation, if your not in a baseball cap with sport clothes then you're a freak and bad for being different.

Warren · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 6:43 am

An emotional person...
Someone who actually dresses like one.

Alex · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 9:03 am

Emo-tional. They seem quiet most of the time.

Typical outfit I would say consists of drainpipe jeans, converse shoes, various colour hair with the fringe over one eye.

I've never seen or heard any emo cut their wrists.

Steven · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 11:43 am

Well, I'm a Emo.

I dress, look, and act like one.

thom, we Emos (THE REAL ONES) don't cut ourselves.

Gothics don't worship the Devil, and Emos don't cut themselves.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 11:43 am

Ryan · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 12:18 pm

Emo is a stereotype commonly used by others to discriminate people with longer hair than normal (normally dyed black), that listen to punk rock music and also people who self harm. This was derived from a phase in the 90's where 'emotional pop rock' became popular, and the term emo grew from.
The emo subculture tends to listen to punk rock, wear drainpipe jeans and have hair covering one eye. This is myself.
But some people portray emo's and self harming, wrist slitting, crybabys that do nothing but cut themselves all day. This is untrue, and many people at my school ask to see my wrists (which are perfectly clean) and accuse me of being a self harmer, which I constantly get bullied for at school. This type of emo is a fake one, as Steven said, and self-harming is caused by people who aren't really following life's path. It is very dangerous.

Shigeto · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 2:10 pm

Ohhhhh you didn't say that

Emo music and Punk music is totally different - punk is upbeat, with great lyrics. Emo music is whiney, sung by people who try to go all Hardcore Metal but end up screaming without the proper Hardcore shouting and all that grring cr*p.
Emo; bands like Thursday.
Punk; NoFX, Lagwagon, Streetlight Manifesto. (You can tell which I prefer

)

James · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 2:30 pm

Person who cuts thier wrist.

Steven · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 4:29 pm

thom wrote:

Ohhhhh you didn't say that

Emo music and Punk music is totally different - punk is upbeat, with great lyrics. Emo music is whiney, sung by people who try to go all Hardcore Metal but end up screaming without the proper Hardcore shouting and all that grring cr*p.
Emo; bands like Thursday.
Punk; NoFX, Lagwagon, Streetlight Manifesto. (You can tell which I prefer

)

You're making us Emos look bad...

mainiacks wrote:

Person who cuts their wrist.

We don't cut our wrists, we don't even cut anything on us. People who cut themselves are not Emos, just morons.

Ult_Mac_Dady · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 7:22 pm

Someone who pretends to have major problems.

Anubis · **Posted:** May 21st, 2007, 7:54 pm

thom wrote:

Ohhhhh you didn't say that

Emo music and Punk music is totally different - punk is upbeat, with great lyrics. Emo music is whiney, sung by people who try to go all Hardcore Metal but end up screaming without the proper Hardcore shouting and all that grring cr*p.
Emo; bands like Thursday.
Punk; NoFX, Lagwagon, Streetlight Manifesto. (You can tell which I prefer

)

I don't like Punk to be compared with Emo either, but the thing with definitions is, they're unbiased. Which is the main reason I can't say what Emo is.

Burnt Joint · **Posted:** May 22nd, 2007, 2:56 am

Ult_Mac_Dady wrote:

Someone who pretends to have major problems.

Just wondering...have you ever thought that they might have massive problems (emotional problems, e.g death in family, a family member/ friend in hospital etc.), and presume that no-one can help them, so they become withdrawn, sit on their own at lunch or something, because they dont want other people to know about their problems?

my point is, don't judge a book by it's cover.

Shigeto · **Posted:** May 22nd, 2007, 6:41 am

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You're making us Emos look bad...

Now really Steven, whats this "we" business, surely you don't actually think of yourself as an emo ?

Brad · **Posted:** May 22nd, 2007, 8:28 am

I don't like people who tag themselves, if people act all emotional and clearly are what people define as 'emo' by nature it's fine. But when people go around acting like something they aren't just because they want to give themselves that tag, it gets rather pathetic.