What is Emo?
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Emo () is a style of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk bands, its sound and meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate. By the mid 1990s numerous emo acts emerged from the Midwestern and Central United States, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the style.
Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional and the emergence of the more aggressive subgenre "screamo". In recent years the term "emo" has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including multiplatinum acts such as Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance and disparate groups such as Coheed and Cambria and Panic at the Disco.
In addition to music, "emo" is often used more generally to signify a particular relationship between fans and artists, and to describe related aspects of fashion, culture, and behavior.
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- NAIZA NAIZA Oct 11, 2009 @ 6:02 am
- Hey, I've always been an emo! Hahaha! What's wrong with that? I enjoyed this lens.. I also had those questions too about being an emo at times. :)
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- KiminPeru KiminPeru Jun 11, 2009 @ 10:17 am
- Nice lens, good information, I love how you have put together access to so many different things about Emo.
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- dhanang dhanang Apr 4, 2009 @ 3:08 am
- emo,I think that some idelogy for me.,.,.,
and I love it.,.,.,
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- jonatán jonatán Feb 15, 2009 @ 10:26 am
- I am ageninan,
yo no ablo ingles mais na agentina todos ellos tienes orcullo del se emo
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- rydigga rydigga Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
- I was always wondering what emo was myself. Thanks for filling me in, nice lens.
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- WritingforYourWealth WritingforYourWealth Jan 1, 2009 @ 3:34 am
- Nice lens--I had to look this up a while back too after seeing it all over on the WoW forums (yeah, I'm a geek... but not an emo geek!)
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- Jan Jan Dec 31, 2008 @ 7:51 pm
- Thank you this is really useful sence my granddaughters are really into this kind of stuff.
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- Recession-Proof Recession-Proof Oct 19, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
- Emo I've also heard it used as a verb and wondered WTF? I just wonder what's the difference between the Emo kids these days and the Grunge fad 15 years ago - the hair? Seems like a combination between the black hair and nail-polish of the grungers 80's skinny jeans "Flock Of Seagulls" Haircut Nihilism = Emo
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- richgerman richgerman Jul 28, 2008 @ 4:34 am
- very informative lens... Emo? its really a question for me... for a while i thought Emo stands for emotion... but i guess i was wrong... thanks so much for sharing... now i will have the right to use this word more often for i know What it really is... 5 Stars and my favorite... love it...:)
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- Ileneonhealth Ileneonhealth Jul 10, 2008 @ 6:27 am
- Great lens. Keep up the good work!
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