Emo culture part 2
OK, with my first article about emos (Emo culture), I made a lot of traffic to my blog and a lot of incomprehensions from one of my friend who even say that I’m stupid, because I don’t know what emo is all about. She got my article wrong, I was writing about people who is pretending to be too emotional. Well never mind that, I stated to research what means to be true ‘Emo’ and I found very interesting stuff.
That “friend” say that she’s emo and well, after reading and researching all this, I don’t know what to mean about that “friend”… See for yourself…
I knew what are emos before, but with some basic knowledge, and now, I know everything. I’m so shocked and horrified. I’ll quote myself from the last post about emos
First to say that I hate word ‘emo’. Don’t have some special reason, because I can say for myself that I’m emotional person
Now I have GOOD reasons to hate this word 
I am emotional, emotions make us humans, but I’M NOT EMO, this is so sick…
Why? Well, read these below.
Primary identification of emos are:
1. They cut themselves.
2. Boys wear girl’s trousers.
3. They are all depressed, everything is sad for them.
4. They overreact about everything.
5. Boys wear make-up.
From these above, I concluded that emo culutre is sick, so mad and MORBID. I can’t believe that there’re people like that. With who I share oxygen :-S , oh my God!
Then, I concluded that these “boys” are more like girls and 70% of them are gay… :-S
This so called culture is so sick and I don’t want to be in any contact with this kind of persons…
Watch few YouTube videos… Some of them are jokes, but that doesn’t mean that they are lying, just watch.
1) This is some joke about how to be an emo, a lot of staff is true, bit hyperbolized, but still true.
2) Second video explains what is true emo. Some inquiry with everyday people.
3) And now SERIOUS video, this is real news report about emos. ABC 4 News in Salt Lake City, Utah warns parents and reports on the Emo subculture seriously in their report.
Thanks for reading, please leave comments, I want to hear your opinion about this.
Vladimir
Great job! I’m a school nurse & you wouldn’t believe how many of the “emo” kids cut. They call themselves “emo,” by the way. We’ve sent at least a dozen kids to the local psychiatric hospital for self-injury and suicidal ideation just during this school year. About 90% of those kids were self identified “emo” kids. I was pretty confused about the whole “emo” thing until one of the kids showed me the website http://whatisemo.bravehost.com/. Once I saw that site, I understand the issue much better; please take the time to view this and protect yourself and your loved ones.
Thank you for so nice comment. I saw website and it’s great way to inform people about emo danger. I’ll try to contact author and to make site even more better (first because of that free hosting bravehost
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Vladimir, thanks for your comments! I am interested in knowing about other hosting possibilities. This was the first site that I ever made, so I knew little of hosting. Please understand though that I have little knowledge or capabilities with coding.
This is for you my friend,
I found this articles on different sites!
There are different meanings of word Emo, so now you can learn more about this culture!!
And remember one thing, you cant judge or hate people only becouse you dislike their style, or music they are listening to!
Just pretend that, for example, someone will hate you only becous of your style!It is so unfair, isn’t it?!
So good luck, and remember you aren’t a God to judge people!
I don’t think you are stupid!! I just think you are unfair!!
With love your friend Jane!!
-There are two types of emo’s.
1. You have the fake, trendy, bullshit emo. These are the people that force themselves to be emo, try to dramatize their life, and think wearing black and cutting your wrists is emo.
2. The true emo, some who is overly emotional. Thats right, emo’s can smile and be happy! Many people suffering from manic depression are labelled emo, because they can’t help feeling like life fucking sucks. Alot of them also cut, hence people labelling other people who cut ‘emo’
((Also, to all the people who say emo is shit, and say ‘dont become emo’ then label people emo when you decide they are, you are a bunch of tosspots who can go shoot yourself in the face.))
-I looked at the other definitions, and there seems to few people on here that actually know what they’re talking about. So I thought I’d add mine, with a bit of history and background information…
1976 saw the birth of punk, bringing with it many sub-genres, sub-sub-genres, and sub-sub-sub-sub-genres. In the early 80s, punk had branched off into several different styles, and ways of taking the genre. In 1981 there was a large amount of “hardcore” bands emerging from the D.C. scene. One of these bands were called “Minor Threat”, who had a very vibrant, and melodic sound.
Nearing the end of 1983, the band “Minor Threat” broke up, after the band seemed to “run out of steam”, and their last 7″ single “Salad Days” in 1984 finally killed the band, and the DC hardcore scene.
After that new bands emerged, taking the genre their own way. 1984 showed the release of “Zen Arcade”, an album by minneapolis band “Husker Du”. This interpretation showed much more powerful, intense vocals with slow, melancholy and more melodic song writing.
In Spring 1984, D.C. Hardcore band “Rites of Spring” emerged, taking inspiration from the earlier hardcore scene. The band brought a totally new vocal approach to Husker Du’s original style.
Summer 1985 became known as the “revolution summer” when a whole wave of hardcore bands emerged from the D.C. scene such as Gray Matter, Soulside, Ignition and Dag Nasty. Few bands retained the original fast paced, hardcore style proposed by “Rites of Spring” and “Husker Du” but took a much more droney, melodic approach to the genre.
These bands were then labelled the “D.C. Sound” or “D.C. Hardcore”, and some of them were labelled “emo”.
It was never suggested by Rites Of Spring that the term “emo” was short for anything. Although it has been proposed that emo was short for “emotive hardcore” or “emotionally charged hardcore punk” in a 1985 flipside interview with the band they claimed they were “not a punk rock band” and it was never mentioned in the text that they were “emotional” or “emotive” although the term “emo” was used several times.
Again, people took the genre several ways. Some people took an “Indie-rock” approach to the genre, while others retained a “post hardcore” style.
Many emo bands were poorly paid, underground, and rarely heard of, and few records were ever released around the genre. Which is probably why today it is so easily mistaken and misunderstood.
The “D.C. hardcore scene” grew, and with it, a stereotype fashion. People with a “Mop-top” haircut, skinny t-shirts and old trainers became a classic “D.C. hardcore scene” cliche. However, not all of these were “emo fans” nor were they in any way “emo’s”. It is suggested that this idea was taken, and progressed through the nineties to a much more “geeky” look nowadays.
However, emo is a genre of music, argue all you like, your still wrong. Saying “I am an emo” is like saying “I am a jazz”, which is not possible. Emo has been heavily marketed by magazines (Kerrang etc.) and a totally wrong idea of the genre is now being spread across youths.
The early 90s saw a last breath for emo, with a much more softer, “Indie-rock” take on the genre. After that, the rest is history. It’s a shame the genre was dragged through the gutter like that.
-”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.
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.
-A group of kids who happen to like the same type of music as is ‘in’ at the moment. It is possible that they liked these bands before many others heard of them, and will continue to like them after the phase has passed. Ditto clothes. They have only been labelled ‘emo’ since the word came into popular culture, and is not one they would give themselves. They do not all self- harm (there is a difference between ‘emo’ and ‘manic depressive’) and do not all wear thick- rimmed glasses or wear all black.
1) An emotional person. They are not depressed all the time and some are acually very happy at times. They do smile, they don’t sit in a corner crying all day. Some are actually quite popular and laugh and joke around lots.
NB: Emo does not mean the person cuts themselves, they might but that is not why they’re emo.
2) A style. Quite similar from emo to emo but they try to make it quite unique. Some common features of emo’s are:
-wristbands/bracelets
-long hair that covers their eyes
-jackets/hoodies
-skate shoes
-skinny fit jeans
-dyed hair
NB: Not all emo’s wear this style and just because you see someone who has one or more of the above features doesn’t mean they’re emo.
3) A genre of music. Some people find it depressing, but generally emo’s listen to it because it describes something that has happened/happening to them perfectly. It’s like the band has taken their memories and found the perfect way to describe it.
NB: Just because a band isn’t very popular doesn’t mean it is emo and some emo music is very cheery and consoling.
Jevgenija, I already told you by text message but I’ll repeat here for people to see.
I didn’t mention MUSIC in these articles (well, I did in first one, and just tell that Tokio Hotel reminds me on emo, I didn’t even say that Tokio Hotel music is emo). You’re right, I can’t judge music because I didn’t heard it, and I won’t. That history of music is nice, but totally needless for this article.
But I can judge when I see people cutting themselves, want to kill himself, they are too pathetic over everything and you need to admit that that isn’t normal. If you like that culture, I respect that, but I know that it’s not normal, well at least for me and a lot of other people. I don’t have anything about they style. You can wear what you want, I just mentioned that boys wear girls pants. If they want to be girls, then change gender or dunno what, but it isn’t normal for boys to wear GIRL cloths.
You also told me in text message that I watch my own business. Well, I’m watching, but this is liberty of speak and I can say this on my own way and that’s the point of this and every blog. This is my opinion, I respect yours and I ask you to respect mine. Thanks for comment. See you in school.
omg this is gay yoy do not no the mening of emo emo is ea shorter wword for emotianil