What's EMO? Just a new word for same old thing?

Nice try everyone.

emo - emotive hardcore.

A sub genre of hardcore punk formed in Washington D.C in the mid 80's (1985). In 1985 a band called Minor Threat had a an idea, a little side project which a Minor Threat fan heard about and carried it out with his band Rites of Spring. His name was Guy Picciotto. A member from Minor Threat called Ian Makaye became inspired by this sound, became a huge Rites of Spring fan and later formed his own band Embace who became the second emo band after Rites of Spring. They had a similar style (but in my opinion made it better because Embrace are better than Rites of Spring). Fans of the band Rites of Spring use to describe their music as emocore which then became emotive hardcore. The audeince was became an emotional purge in which case they use to weep.

The RoS members, rather mockingly mentioned this in a 1985 issue of Flipsize Magazine. The "emocore" label quickly spread around the Washington, D.C. punk scene and became attached to many of the bands associated with MacKaye's Dischord Records label. Emo bands use to be very short lived and the emo genre only lasted a few years since most of the important emo bands had broken up.

MacKaye and Piccioto, along with Rites of Spring drummer Brendan Canty, went on to form the highly influential Fugazi who, despite sometimes being connected with the term "emo", are not commonly recognized as an emo band.

In the 90's, the emo label had spread across Washingon that other bands became involved in the scene. Instead of passing on the hardcore punk sound these bands mixed indie rock and pop punk together to create a softer, more melodic sound.

Bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is The Reason were involved.

Rites of Spring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge8ucvLYLRc

Embrace:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfQnNphjcWs

Sunny Day Real Estate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41YqzHoCgk4

Some other real emo bands are:

Moss Icon, Gray Matter, Indian Summer Twelve Hour Turn, Amanda Woodward, Jawbreaker, Dag Nasty and Hot Cross.

Emo style is said to be flat shoes (usually vans or converse), a messenger bag which carries a diary and pencils, sweaters which with real emo bands shirts underneath and thick rimmed glasses.

There are basically no real followers today, just a lot of 12 / 13 year olds who think they're emo because they wear converse, skinny jeans and listen to BVB (when all the only song they know is Perfect Weapon and love Andy Biersack who is the lead singer).

Emo is somewhat like a form of goth, except it has more color. There is emo music and the word emo does come from emotional. Emo music tends to be metal or even a genre they call "Emo Pop" which is like pop but it has a different spin on it.

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Hmm, Im not that young, but, yeah emo means emotional. Usually, the ones being called emo are kids who are dark, or negative thinker. young people nowadays call others emo just for dressing like that marilyn manson guy.