Can somebody please explain EMO to Me

[Annie]

People who like Twilight.

So does that make me EMO because I ADORE TWILIGHT!. But I am over 30.

I believe you started this thread because someone you know may have called you emo because you are a big fan of Twilight.

Am I mistaken?

I think you're confused.

I don't think you are emo, but you might fall under some of the sub-categories, what with your love of Hello Kitty and having a dragon on your lawn.

You might be a closeted vamp.

Nobody has called me EMO, but they have called TWILIGHT, EMO, and I just wanted to understand. And I am One of a kind! I get along with everyone, but fit in with no one.

[mrlee]

maybe you are a scene kid.

But you like GNR so there is stsill hope yet.


N on this Twilight thing, go watch an episode of South Park called "The Ungroundable"

[Annie]

I was also curious about EMO because somebody at mygnr said that their friends who were not diehard GNR fans thought THIS I LOVE was EMO. Alot of my conservative friends think I am strange for loving AXL Rose and GNR.

[mrlee]

I was also curious about EMO because somebody at mygnr said that their friends who were not diehard GNR fans thought THIS I LOVE was EMO. Alot of my conservative friends think I am strange for loving AXL Rose and GNR.

I think someone singing about heartbreak is not emo.

Its all about the fashion n music style, the weak ass fag lyrics just add to it.

[ppbebe]

labelling sucks. easy fun tho.

[The Dog]

Dashboard is a really good band, some awesome tunes.  I think they're considered the godfathers of emo, but that term really doesn't do them justice.  As someone else said, emo nowadays is more about the MCR/fall out boy image with the stupid hair cut and make up.

DC is about the music 

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

She's just having a midlife crisis.  I guess it happens to everyone.

I don't think she is a scene kid, but she probably wants to relive her youth.  Nothing wrong with that.

Also, to lend credence to my vampire claims, your avatar has fangs.

Plus, don't listen to anything that comes out of mygnr.  They'll use imaginary friends to put down Axl and Guns.  I hardly think TIL and Estranged are emo.  Just fucking great songs that capture the human spirit.

Do you shop at Hot Topic?


 

 

[AxlsMainMan]

Dashboard is a really good band, some awesome tunes.  I think they're considered the godfathers of emo, but that term really doesn't do them justice.  As someone else said, emo nowadays is more about the MCR/fall out boy image with the stupid hair cut and make up.

DC is about the music 

The Godfathers?

The Cure were around about 25 years before Dashboard Confessional...

[Annie]

She's just having a midlife crisis.  I guess it happens to everyone.

I don't think she is a scene kid, but she probably wants to relive her youth.  Nothing wrong with that.

Also, to lend credence to my vampire claims, your avatar has fangs.

Plus, don't listen to anything that comes out of mygnr.  They'll use imaginary friends to put down Axl and Guns.  I hardly think TIL and Estranged are emo.  Just fucking great songs that capture the human spirit.

Do you shop at Hot Topic?


 

 

I do shop at Hot topic. I don't think I'm having a midlife crisis because I never grew up!

[The Dog]

Dashboard is a really good band, some awesome tunes.  I think they're considered the godfathers of emo, but that term really doesn't do them justice.  As someone else said, emo nowadays is more about the MCR/fall out boy image with the stupid hair cut and make up.

DC is about the music 

The Godfathers?

The Cure were around about 25 years before Dashboard Confessional...

are the Cure considered emo    I don't think so.

do a search for "godfather emo dashboard" and see what you find. 

[mrlee]

i always thought the cure were a 80s goth band. Similar to The Cult, except without the balls.

[AxlsMainMan]

Dashboard is a really good band, some awesome tunes.  I think they're considered the godfathers of emo, but that term really doesn't do them justice.  As someone else said, emo nowadays is more about the MCR/fall out boy image with the stupid hair cut and make up.

DC is about the music 

The Godfathers?

The Cure were around about 25 years before Dashboard Confessional...

are the Cure considered emo    I don't think so.

do a search for "godfather emo dashboard" and see what you find. 

Not all their music, but quite a few of there songs could be classified as "emo."

Not to mention pretty much every modern emo band has hijacked Robert Smith's image.

i always thought the cure were a 80s goth band. Similar to The Cult, except without the balls.

They have a few Goth albums, all light-years ahead of The Cult.

[Henson]

Whenever I hear of emo I always recall and laugh at this joke:

'You should look into buying emo grass, I hear it cuts itself.'


Sorry, I always got a kick out of it.

[Annie]

Thankyou to everyone for their replies. It seems EMO means emotional and that it started in the 80's. I did some research on the internet.  It was described as white boy pain.

[mrlee]

^but that emo in the 80s. is ALOT different from the emo in the 00s.