Emotive Hardcore
This is to let people know of the original meaning of emo. There are so many people on here and on other websites as well as in real person who think they're either emo, or think they know what it means because they've heard it through the mainstream or from their friends.
So originally, emo stood for "emotive hardcore punk" (in full). It was a genre of music born out of hardcore punk in the mid 80s in Washington D.C from with bands like Rites of Spring, Embrace and One Last Wish.
Emotive hardcore, in short, is punk with emotional lyrics (instead of rebellion). The characteristics of emo were fast guitar riffs, like hardcore punk has and shouting vocals but with emotional lyrics.
It all started with a Minor Threat fan named Guy Picciotto who had an idea, for which he then formed a band called Rites of Spring. A fan of the band called Ian Mackaye, who recorded their first album and was a roadie for them, became inspired by this and formed Embrace, who are said to be the second emo band.
The two later went on to form Fugazi who are not firstly recongnised as an emo band, but a post-hardcore band instead.
In the 90s, a second wave of emo hit Washington D.C but this time it was more melodic and softer. More "Emo" if that makes sense. Bands in this wave included Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason and many more.
Eventually, in 2001, emo broke the mainstream with Jimmy Eat World's song called "The Middle". From then, emo was played on the radio/TV with bands like Dashboard Confessional and Hawthorne Heights.
From then on, bands like My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco have all been named emo and put in to that category. Emo has generally turned in to a teenage phase where it means "emotional" and where it uses darkness to emphasise the wearers emotional state. Many of them are/have self harmed in the past meaning negative stereotypes are created and passed around.
Emotive hardcore, in short, is punk with emotional lyrics (instead of rebellion). The characteristics of emo were fast guitar riffs, like hardcore punk has and shouting vocals but with emotional lyrics.
It all started with a Minor Threat fan named Guy Picciotto who had an idea, for which he then formed a band called Rites of Spring. A fan of the band called Ian Mackaye, who recorded their first album and was a roadie for them, became inspired by this and formed Embrace, who are said to be the second emo band.
The two later went on to form Fugazi who are not firstly recongnised as an emo band, but a post-hardcore band instead.
In the 90s, a second wave of emo hit Washington D.C but this time it was more melodic and softer. More "Emo" if that makes sense. Bands in this wave included Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason and many more.
Eventually, in 2001, emo broke the mainstream with Jimmy Eat World's song called "The Middle". From then, emo was played on the radio/TV with bands like Dashboard Confessional and Hawthorne Heights.
From then on, bands like My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco have all been named emo and put in to that category. Emo has generally turned in to a teenage phase where it means "emotional" and where it uses darkness to emphasise the wearers emotional state. Many of them are/have self harmed in the past meaning negative stereotypes are created and passed around.
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Thinking about sharing this on my Facebook band page.. :3
Oh,yeah,SORRY,sometimes I get mixed up!!! But,you know what I meant,right?
Oh my god sorry about that my laptop stuffed up but i was wondering what genre of music do you think My Chemical Romance and Paramore, Fall Out Boy and Panic! At The Disco are?
Alternative rock, but in some cases they're considered "emo-pop" (which is mainstream emo and not real at all) so I just say alternative as they've covered different genres of rock in their music.
True, true. :3
In my school, if we have a lesson in gym we go to the multi-purpose room and sit in the floor and watch a video then have a review.
She was all like: "I'm not going to argue about this."
It actually made me feel pretty smart. Thank you Shannon. :)
Well that's because you've proved her wrong and she has nothing else to say. Might knock some sense to her. :')
Yes, in fact I did. I said that everyone has emotions and can get emotional at times and if you're a cutter, always sad, and extremely anti-social..... You aren't emo. You need help. As for the hormone thing we don't learn about that stuff in science class. We learn it in gym.
Ah well, in gym (or physical education, as well call it) we don't do writing or sit down and learn things. It's all just exercise.
What did they say to that?
Thank you so much for writing this :)
In art the other day I got into a pretty loud argument with this kid about what emo meant. He was like 'You're emo. You like rock bands.' and I was like 'excuse me do I look like a music genre?' and he was like 'it's not a music genre, it's a type of person' we got into this whole stupid argument.
SOME PEOPLE ARE SO FRICKIN STUPID.
Even if it wasn't a music genre, I don't think I would be able to write this all from the top of my head especially when there's so many more sources that have better information than what I've created here. Even Wikipedia, which is mostly unreliable has better sources than most XD
At my school today, I got into this mini argument about what emo actually is. The girl who I was talking to said it stood for 'emotional' and made up crap like it had two meanings. --
People these days. --
Did you mention how it meaning emotional is completely illogical from the fact that everything/person is emotional (even if they have a disorder; they still express it in different way)? And the fact that teenagers are naturally overally emotional because of hormones? (still, maybe they haven't got that far in Science yet).
They are some good points to make if you're arguing against it meaning "emotional".
I spend my fukcing day explaining to my ENTIRE class what the word 'emo' means, that goths do NOT worship the devil (on a whole, as a stereotype), that My Chemical Romance are NOT gay and that not all emos self harm.