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Emo (pronounced /ˈiːmoʊ/) is a somewhat ambiguous slang[1] term most frequently used to describe or refer to a fashion, style[2], or attitude linked to post-hardcore. Emo may also describe emo music or a general emotional state (as in to "feel emo"). It is also (sometimes pejoratively) used to identify someone who fits a particular emo stereotype or category or someone who is overly-emotional.[3][4][5] The term's definition is the subject of debate.
Origin in music
Since its inception, emo has come to describe several independent variations of music, linked loosely but with common stylistic roots. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate.
In its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated in the Washington, DC music scene of the mid-1980s. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and, slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.[4][5][6]
Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason put forth a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic in nature than its predecessor. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles.[6]
As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture. Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music.
Personality
When referring to a person's personality and attitude, most definitions of emo hold that an emo person is emotionally candid, sensitive, shy, introverted, glum, and quiet.[7] Depressed and broken-hearted are sometimes used to describe the emo personality. Emo music and poetry contain multiple references to unrequited love, emotional and relationship problems. Being melodramatic or overly emotional is also often associated with being emo.[7]
FashionBy almost all current definitions, Emo clothing is characterized by tight jeans on males and females alike, long fringe (bangs) brushed to one side of the face or over one or both eyes, dyed black, straightened hair, tight t-shirts which often bear the names of rock bands (or other designed shirts), studded belts, belt buckles, canvas sneakers or skate shoes or other black shoes (often old and beaten up) and, if they wear glasses, they will often be thick, black horn-rimmed glasses.[2][3][4][8][7] Emo fashion has changed with time; early trends included haircuts similar to those worn by the Romulans and Vulcans in Star Trek, tightly fitting sweaters, button-down shirts, and work jackets (often called gas station jackets).[8]
Criticism
In the years since emo music's rise in popularity, it has attracted severe criticism.[9] Emo has been characterized as a fad that will be discarded and forgotten in the near future.[10] Critics cast the fashion as "embarrassing," and the people as imagining or pretending that they lead harsh, painful lives when they actually live in comfortable homes.
Emo people are portrayed as melodramatic, self-pitying teenagers who pour their efforts into writing depressing poetry. Contemporary emo has been called a "sad caricature" of what it once was.[9] Some have accused emo of celebrating self-injury or suicide, which those who do usually refer to "helping ease the pain"[11]. However, physical trauma triggers the release of beta-endorphins, which enhances relaxation and reduces physical pain. Some assert that within some emo circles, many pretend to be suicidal and self-harming as a way to gain acceptance, regardless of whether it is true or not.[10]

In the years since emo music's rise in popularity, it has attracted severe criticism.[9] Emo has been characterized as a fad that will be discarded and forgotten in the near future.[10] Critics cast the fashion as "embarrassing," and the people as imagining or pretending that they lead harsh, painful lives when they actually live in comfortable homes.
Emo people are portrayed as melodramatic, self-pitying teenagers who pour their efforts into writing depressing poetry. Contemporary emo has been called a "sad caricature" of what it once was.[9] Some have accused emo of celebrating self-injury or suicide, which those who do usually refer to "helping ease the pain"[11]. However, physical trauma triggers the release of beta-endorphins, which enhances relaxation and reduces physical pain. Some assert that within some emo circles, many pretend to be suicidal and self-harming as a way to gain acceptance, regardless of whether it is true or not.[10]
Emo (music
History
The first wave (1985-1994)
In 1985 in Washington, D.C., Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, veterans of the DC hardcore music scene, decided to shift away from what they saw as the constraints of the basic style of hardcore and the escalating violence within the scene. They took their music in a more personal direction with a far greater sense of experimentation, bringing forth MacKaye's Embrace and Picciotto's Rites of Spring. The style of music developed by Embrace and Rites of Spring soon became its own sound. (Hüsker Dü's 1984 album Zen Arcade is often cited as a major influence for the new sound.) As a result of the renewed spirit of experimentation and musical innovation that developed the new scene, the summer of 1985 soon came to be known in the scene as "Revolution Summer".[1][2]
Where the term emo actually originated is uncertain, but members of Rites of Spring mentioned in a 1985 interview in Flipside Magazine that some of their fans had started using the term to describe their music. By the early 90s, it was not uncommon for the early DC scene to be referred to as emo-core, though it's unclear when the term shifted.
Within a short time, the D.C. emo sound began to influence other bands such as Moss Icon, Nation of Ulysses,[3] Dag Nasty, Soulside, Shudder To Think, Fire Party, Marginal Man, and Gray Matter, many of which were released on MacKaye's Dischord Records. The original wave of DC emo finally ended in late 1994 with the collapse of Hoover.
As the D.C. scene expanded, other scenes began to develop with a similar sound and DIY ethic. In San Diego in the early 1990s, Gravity Records released a number of records in the hardcore emo style. Bands of the period included Heroin, Indian Summer, Drive Like Jehu, Angel Hair, Antioch Arrow, Universal Order of Armageddon, Swing Kids, and Mohinder. Also in California, Ebullition Records released records by bands of the same vein, such as Still Life and Portraits of Past, as well as more traditional hardcore punk bands, all having various social and political themes in common.
At the same time, in the New York/New Jersey area, bands such as Native Nod, Merel, 1.6 Band, Policy of 3, Rye Coalition, Iconoclast,[4] and Quicksand[5] were feeling the same impulse. Many of these bands were involved with the ABC No Rio club scene in New York, itself a response to the violence and stagnation in the scene and with the bands that played at CBGBs, the only other small venue for hardcore in New York at the time. Much of this wave of emo, particularly the San Diego scene, began to shift towards a more chaotic and aggressive form of emo, nicknamed screamo.
By and large, the more hardcore style of emo began to fade as many of the early era groups disbanded. However, aspects of the sound remained in bands such as Four Hundred Years and Yaphet Kotto. Also, a handful of modern bands continue to reflect emo's hardcore origins, including Circle Takes the Square, Hot Cross, City of Caterpillar, Funeral Diner, and A Day in Black and White.
Following the disbanding of Embrace in 1986, MacKaye established the influential group Fugazi, and was soon joined by Picciotto. While Fugazi itself is not typically categorized as emo, the band's music is cited as an influence by popular second-wave bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate,[6] Braid,[7] and Jimmy Eat World.[8]
Early emo's influence
In California - particularly in the Bay Area - bands such as Jawbreaker and Samiam began to incorporate influences from the "D.C. sound" into a poppier framework; The former's music was described by Andy Greenwald as "a sonic shot-gun marriage between the bristly heft of hardcore, the song-writing sensibility of Cali pop-punk, and the tortured artistry of D.C. emo".[9] Other bands soon reflected the same sense of rough melody, including Still Life and Long Island's Garden Variety.
Also in the early 90s, bands like Lifetime reacted in their own way to the demise of youth crew styled straight-edge hardcore and desired to seek out a new direction. While their music was often classified as emo, it was also considered to be melodic hardcore. In response to the more metal direction their hardcore peers were taking, Lifetime initially decided to slow down and soften their music, adding more personal lyrics. The band later added a blend of speed, aggression, and melody that defined their sound. Lifetime's sound, lyrics, and style were a virtual blueprint for later bands, including Saves the Day, Taking Back Sunday, and The Movielife.
Similarly, bands such as Converge, heavily influential on modern metalcore, drew inspiration from East Coast emo bands and added a sense of catharsis and atypically introspective lyrics.
The third wave (2000-present)
At the end of the 1990s, the underground emo scene had almost entirely disappeared. However, the term emo was still being bandied about in mainstream media, almost always attached to the few remaining 90s emo acts, including Jimmy Eat World.
However, towards the end of the 1990s, Jimmy Eat World had begun to shift in a more mainstream direction. Where Jimmy Eat World had played emocore-style music early in their career, by the time of the release of their 2001 album Bleed American, the band had downplayed its emo influences, releasing more pop-oriented singles such as "The Middle" and "Sweetness". As the public had become aware of the word emo and knew that Jimmy Eat World was associated with it, the band continued to be referred to as an "emo" band, despite their objections. Newer bands that sounded like Jimmy Eat World (and, in some cases, like the more melodic emo bands of the late 90s) were soon included in the genre.[11]
2003 saw the success of Chris Carrabba, the former singer of emo band Further Seems Forever, and his project Dashboard Confessional. Despite musically being more aligned to the singer songwriter school, Carraba found himself part of the emerging "popular" emo scene. Carrabba's music featured lyrics founded in deep diary-like outpourings of emotion. While certainly emotional, the new "emo" had a far greater appeal amongst adolescents than its earlier incarnations. [12]
With Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World's success, major labels began seeking out similar sounding bands. Just as many bands of the early-to-mid 1990s were unwillingly lumped under the umbrella of "grunge", some record labels wanted to be able to market a new sound under the word emo.
At the same time, use of the term "emo" expanded beyond the musical genre, which added to the confusion surrounding the term. The word "emo" became associated with open displays of strong emotion. Common fashion styles and attitudes that were becoming idiomatic of fans of similar "emo" bands also began to be referred to as "emo". (For further discussion, see Emo (slang).) As a result, bands that were loosely associated with "emo" trends or simply demonstrated emotion began to be referred to as emo.[13]
In an even more expanded way than in the 90s, emo has come to encompass an extremely wide variety of bands, many of whom have very little in common. The term has become so broad that it has become nearly impossible to describe what exactly qualifies as "emo".
Appropriately or not, emo has been used to describe such bands as AFI, Alexisonfire, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Coheed and Cambria, Death Cab for Cutie, Fall Out Boy, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco, Senses Fail, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story of the Year, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, The Used, and Underoath.[14] The classification of bands as "emo" is often controversial. Fans of several of the listed bands have recoiled at the use of the "emo" tag, and have gone to great lengths to explain why they don't qualify as "emo". In many cases, the term has simply been attached to them because of musical similarities, a common fashion sense, or because of the band's popularity within the "emo" scene, not because the band adheres to emo as a music genre.
As a result of the continuing shift of "emo" over the years, a serious schism has emerged between those who relate to particular eras of "emo". Those who were closely attached to the hardcore origins recoil when another type of music is called "emo". Many involved in the independent nature of both 80s and 90s emo are upset at the perceived hijacking of the word emo to sell a new generation of major label music. Regardless, popular culture appears to have embraced the terms of "emo" far beyond its original intentions.
In a strange twist, screamo, a sub-genre of the new emo, has found greater popularity in recent years through bands such as Thrice and Glassjaw.[15] The term screamo, however, was used to describe an entirely different genre in the early 1990s, and the new screamo bands more resemble the emo of the early 1990s. Complicating matters further is that several small scenes devoted to original screamo still exist in the underground. However, the new use of "screamo" demonstrates how the shift in terms connected to "emo" has made the varying genres difficult to categorize.
The difficulty in defining "emo" as a genre may have started at the very beginning. In a 2003 interview by Mark Prindle,[16] Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and Rites of Spring was asked how he felt about "being the creator of the emo genre". He responded: "I don't recognize that attribution. I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me."
Backlash
As the music increased in popularity, emo became more and more a target of derision. As certain fashion trends and attitudes began to be associated with "emo", stereotypes emerged that created a specific target for criticism.
In the early years of the "third wave", the criticism was relatively light-hearted and self-effacing. In September of 2002, web developer Jason Oda put forth Emogame. The game poked fun at numerous emo stereotypes and musicians, but in a manner that could be appreciated by fans and detractors alike.
In ensuing years, the derision increased dramatically. Male fans of emo found themselves hit with homosexual slurs, largely a reflection of the style of dress popular within the "emo scene" and the displays of emotion common in the scene. Complaints pointed to the histrionic manner in which the emotions were often expressed, not necessarily to the emotions themselves.
In October of 2003, Punk Planet contributor Jessica Hopper leveled the charge that the "third wave" era of emo was sexist. Hopper argued that where bands such as Jawbox, Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate had characterized women in such a way that they were not "exclusively defined by their absence or lensed through romantic-specter",[17] contemporary bands approached relationship issues by "damning the girl on the other side ... its woman-induced misery has gone from being descriptive to being prescriptive". Regarding the position of women listening to emo, Hopper went on to note that the music had become "just another forum where women were locked in a stasis of outside observation, observing ourselves through the eyes of others".
Collective reaction to Hopper's article was mixed, and many dismissed the charge outright, noting that rock music as a genre had a long history of issues with sexism; the problem wasn't unique to emo music or directly related. By comparison to a genre like 1980s glam metal, in which popular songs (such as Warrant's "Cherry Pie") often objectified women, the perceived sexism in emo was more of an intellectual argument than something that could be specifically cited in the music.
Critics of modern emo have argued that there is a tendency toward increasingly generic and homogenized style.[18] Many popular bands have attempted to disassociate themselves with the "emo" tag; some have adopted the genre designation post-hardcore. Despite the criticism, the modern version of emo has maintained mainstream popularity. However, given the disfavor of the term "emo", the question of whether new bands will openly associate with "emo" leaves the future unclear.
HOW EMO SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD:
• haha, wow
if this guy is talking the truth, than everyone's got emo wrong. but doesn't the public decide what the genre is? if enough people call it something, it becomes it becomes that genre, thats what happend with pop which started out as just popular music and now its n'sync and spears. so if enough people call dashboard and my chem emo, than u can't argue. all u can say is that bands such as saetia were
I second that EMO-tion;
a new genre of music emerges
It was the winter of 2001, and I was cruising towards Pierre down Highway 14. It was a rare occasion, but I was actually listening to the radio instead of my usual mix of tapes. As I feared, it was one pop hit after another and I found it hard to distinguish a difference between one song and the next, often thinking to myself, "didn't the DJ just play this group?"
I was losing all interest and hope in radio, and was about to pop in a trusty tape when, to my surprise, I heard a familiar voice belting out a catchy little hook. Shock must have set in, because I suddenly pulled over to the side of the highway to sit and listen. "It just takes some time. Little girl you're in the middle." The voice belonged to Jim Adkins, founder and front man of one of my favorite bands, Jimmy Eat World. A smile spread across my face as I pulled my car back onto the highway. They had done it. It had happened. People didn't know it, but they had just been exposed to a new genre of music that has been long overdue. Emo had finally knocked on the door loud enough so that the hinges broke and the door was wide open.
Yes, radio stations and the mainstream audience have embraced emo. Soon after the exposure of Jimmy Eat World, other bands such as Saves The Day, The Get Up Kids, Dashboard Confessional, and The Promise Ring began to pierce the radio waves and television screens. It is about time that this great style of music has reached the masses. Rock needed a kick in the butt, and it definitely got one. Now, I know some people may argue and say bands like Jimmy Eat World and Saves The Day have sold out and gone pop. Some people are really closed-minded. Yes, these bands do have more of a pop sound than what they first sounded like, but it is still emo, and it is still good. These bands have NOT sold out. They have paid their dues and worked and toured their butts off.
For example, Jimmy Eat World's self-titled album is their fourth studio album, and their third album to be released on a major label. They first recorded and released an independent record in 1994 and were signed to Capitol Records in 1996. They put out two great records on Capitol, but the executives didn't promote either album very well. It was only a matter of time until the hard work paid off as it did with their self-titled release on Dreamworks Records in the summer of 2001.
Jimmy Eat World has paved the way for other emo bands, but there is still a whole melting pot of talent that has yet to be discovered by the masses.
I know there is a question burning inside you, "What is emo?" That is a good question. I don't think there is a "real" definition for it out there. I do know that emo is short for "emotional," and that there is a large emphasis on the lyrical content. But, there is also a definite sound style. Lyrically, emo is centered on the topics of love and love lost, and most often, the emotions of band members are worn on their sleeves. Musically, emo is characterized by bursts of sound alternating between quiet and serene, to loud, distorted, and aggressive. Put these musical qualities together with the lyrical qualities, and you have a sound and style that is mellow, aggressive, and whiney, all at the same time. That's emo.
Emo often receives a bad rap because, along with the music, there is a certain outward appearance that is emo; or rather, people think there is a certain outward appearance. Apparently, people who listen to emo have short, black, dyed hair, thick, black horn-rimmed glasses, skinny, frail, body types, smoke a lot of cigarettes, and cry a lot. This is an extreme generalization. There are people who fit this description, but emo is not about what you wear, whom you hang out with, what you do, or even what bands you listen to. Rather, emo is a state of mind. If a person gets in touch with his/her feelings through music that is played by people in touch with their feelings, I think that is the state of mind of emo. If a person can put aside all of the arguments surrounding what emo is, then he/she knows what emo is. Deep Elm Records owner, John Suchz, said it best, "People should just listen to the music and stop worrying about what to call it." Amen brother!
How and when did emo begin? The emo movement began in 1984 on the east coast. At that time, the differences between emo and harcore music were miniscule. The guitars were very hard and the vocals were much like screaming, but melody began to creep in, and screaming became signing. For the rest of the 80's and into the early 90's, this sound gradually lost some of the hardness and continued to expand melodically. By the mid nineties ,emo took on the sound that it is associated with today.
Today there are twinkling, arpeggiated, guitar parts mixed in with distorted, aggressive guitar parts, and there is the play between soft and loud dynamics. Melodic vocals mix with well-placed, pain-filled screams, and soar above an ocean of sound. Just as rap and pop have progressed from generation to generation, emo has also progressed from generation to generation. What is emo today may not have been considered emo back in 1984, but this is fourth generation emo. Every musical genre evolves.
Today, emo is widely spreading across the U.S. and the world. Leading the charge is a small, independent label based in Charlotte, N.C., called Deep Elm Records. Deep Elm began in 1996, at the start of the fourth generation of emo, in New York, N.Y. In 1997, Deep Elm began a compilation series called "The Emo Diaries," that was designed to help unsigned bands get their music put out in the scene. The first band chosen for the first chapter of this series happened to be Jimmy Eat World.
In 1999, Deep Elm decided to relocate to Charlotte, N.C. To date, they have released 63 CD's including eight chapters of "The Emo Diaries." Their roster is always full, always changing and becoming bigger. The list includes bands from countries around the world including Holland, Sweden, and Italy. There will be more to come on Deep Elm Records in the future.
I think I have said all I can about emo. All I can do now is urge you check out what is available in this style. You don't know where to get it? Go to CD Exchange on 6th Ave. You don't know what to get? That is where I come in! Try anything released on Deep Elm records, but there is also many an emo album out there that is just as amazing and released by a different label. The following is a list of some of my recommendations:
Mineral - "The Power of Failing," and "End Serenading" Crank! Records
Pop Unknown - "The August Division" Sessions Records
The Appleseed Cast - "Low Level Owl 1 and 2" Deep Elm Records
The Get Up Kids - "Something to Write Home About" Vagrant Records
Benton Falls - "Fighting Starlight" Deep Elm Records
Sunny Day Real Estate - "Diary" Sub Pop Records
This Beautiful Mess - "Falling on Deaf Ears" Deep Elm Records
The Promise Ring - "30 Degrees Everywhere" and "Very Emergency" Jade Tree
Brandtson - "Fallen Star Collection" Deep Elm Records
Cursive - "Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes" Crank! Records
Red Aniaml War - "Black Phantom Crusades" Deep Elm Records
Hum - "You'd Prefer An Astronaut" RCA Records
Cross My Heart - "Temporary Contemporary" Deep Elm Records Jimmy Eat World - "Clarity" Capitol Records
Last Days of April - "Angel Youth" Deep Elm Records
The Gloria Record - "Start Here" Arena Rock Recordings
Billy Music - "Midwest Index" Law of Inertia Records
Claire De Lune - "Self Titled" Blue Worm Records
The Emo Diaries - "Chapters 1-8" Deep Elm Records
Coheed and Cambria - "The Second Stage Turbine Blade" Equal Vision
I have a few reminders. Half of what I have written is what I have found out from record companies, the Internet, magazines and friends. The other half of what I have written is my personal opinions and views. I have an undying love for this genre of music, and I simply want to share that love with others. Feel free to talk to me anytime. I will try and answer any questions you may have. If you want to listen to any of the afore mentioned albums, let me know and I will let you borrow them. Lastly, please correct me if any of what I have written is wrong historically.
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Finding emo: Angst spreading from older teens to middle-schoolers
(Chicago Tribune (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) They're 13, maybe 12, maybe even younger, and this is what they're finding on the Internet:
A girl from Roselle, whose screen name is As the Blood Runs Down, writes that she'll commit suicide by slashing her throat, she'll try 80 times, and she'll leave this as her suicide note: "Now there's simply one less heart to break."
All this on her blog on MySpace, a virtual meeting place for any kid with access to the Internet and the unofficial base for all kids who call themselves "emo," short for hard-core emotive.
It started with a form of indie music _ noted for its whininess and its lead singers who would sob on stage _ back in the 1980s and caught on a couple of years ago with high schoolers drawn to its melodrama and misanthropy.
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Now emo is a subculture with a dress and drama all its own. According to kids, teachers, and therapists, it has become the latest cool thing in junior highs, where cool is everything.
Only some grown-ups and even older emo kids themselves worry that young teens and preteens might be in over their heads in a scene that's wrought with self-injury, prescription swapping and long hours venting their dark side on blogs that they forget can be read by anyone.
Someone who calls herself I Am the Happy Emo Girl Named Amaya!, whose bedtime is 9 p.m., by the way, writes in her blog, "i don't know who i am ... why don't you just end it, shoot me with ur gun or some (expletive). Bang. Bang. Im dead."
And then there's Emo Tim, whose blog shows video of his forearm, a lattice of red cuts. These words crawl beneath the blood-blotched arm: "I got a Boo-Boo!"
Ouch.
"I think now we have more kids who are messed up, broken," said Steve Pearce, principal of Margaret Mead Junior High in Elk Grove Village, Ill. "Their heroes are these drug-addicted, strung-out musicians. Emotionally speaking, our kids today, they've seen more, they probably hurt more because of broken homes. They're more needy. More kids today see therapists, they're on medications. This emo (phenomenon) plays along with that."
You can find the ever-more-youthful emo trend in cities and suburbs. And it has spread, thanks to the Internet, faster than you can type, "Seeking desolate landscape populated by preteens."
Check out MySpace _ a virtual hangout where teens glue themselves to the computer and hook up with kids far and wide _ and you'll find some 17,331 groups that identify themselves as "emo."
You can Google "emo" and find step-by-step pictorial guides for "emo makeovers." That is, how to transform a geeky guy with a pencil tucked behind his ear, working at a copy store, to a "bona fide emo boy," who is shown dying his hair black, ditching the smile, slipping on a black T-shirt and scarf and, in the final photo, putting razor blade to wrist, from which something red is spilling.
Psychologists and mental health experts say that in the last few years, especially among teens and preteens, there has been a huge attitudinal swing about mental health issues; whereas 10 years ago a kid might be ashamed to admit even seeing a therapist, now it is ultra-cool to have such mood swings that you are on prescription meds and diagnosed with childhood or adolescent bipolar disorder.
"Now it's almost a rite of passage. `Wow, I'm so messed up, I'm seeing a therapist and this is the drug they put me on,'" said Lisa Schubring, a marriage and family therapist in Green Bay, Wis., whose practice is devoted primarily to teens and preteens with issues related to the computer. "A huge surge of kids are taking anti-psychotic drugs. There's some sort of coolness in, `My moods are so wild, I have to take this.'"
What's most worrisome, she and others report, is that kids are swapping psychiatric prescriptions the way they used to swap Twinkies for chips at the lunch table. If Ritalin works for you, maybe it'll be good for me, the thinking goes.
"When I was in high school, kids crushed up Ritalin, Adderall, you name it. The emo kids were poppin' pills, doin' it all," said an 18-year-old from Hoffman Estates, Ill., who kept a keen eye on the scene and worries that what is now almost a joke among college kids has snared serious attention from 7th graders.
"It's a generation marked by promiscuity and disobedience under wraps," he said of his peers. "It's like the hair in front of their eyes shields the world from seeing the moral breakdown. Under the gentle swoop of the bangs lies a world of debauchery. Each kid tries to outdo each other, in a big game of `who can be the most emo.' It's one of those trying-so-hard-not-to-conform-that-they-all-end-up-looking-the-same situations.
"Apathy is an epidemic. These kids don't have anything to believe in anymore, so they turn to whatever's there. It seems like in these cases, appearance is religion."
So now, at the high altar of cool in junior high, emo is to be worshiped.
Michel Lacocque, a school counselor at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, has been working with 7th graders for much of his professional life. He has a deep and poetic understanding of their whims and their worries.
"This age group _ 12 _ is a time when kids haven't settled on who they are," Lacocque said. "They are trying on personalities like they try on clothes. Things come through their ranks like contagions. They are very permeable. As adults, we know how to hold on to who we are. You feel it, you feel it in your belly.
"They are so in the process of forming themselves still. You're not a defined person when you are 12. It's a trial-and-error, intensely feeling time. Schools need to be clear about their structure, and so do parents. It's reminders that it's 8 o'clock and it's time to go to class. If there's something on your mind, there are counselors and there's a school nurse and you can go to see them.
"We have a group of students who are defining themselves in a certain way, and it won't last. It will pass. I'm not terribly concerned."
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As the young adolescents thrash around the matter of who they are and who they are in the world, Lacocque advises that the adults around them stay steady and stay the course.
"When the child was 3 and awoke from a nightmare and said there was a monster, if you got scared, there would be terror," he said. "It's contagious. With our children here in school, they say this world is crap, and if we're alarmed, they'd be terrified. We have to remain benign, organized, structured and remind them what's next. Class starts in two minutes."
As for the cutting, or self-injuring, that is one of the most worrisome parts of being emo, according to Lacocque, who has seen the behavior in both middle school and high school students. "There is something sexily eerie about cutting for people who don't feel their reality," he explained. For the most part, he said, some kids might be curious enough to try it once but then quickly decide it's not something they're interested in doing.
The danger, say child psychologists, is the child who decides to dabble once and makes a serious mistake.
"Typically, the intention is not to die," said Schubring. "The risk is always there."
One Schaumburg, Ill., mother of four, a woman who spends plenty of time listening in on preteen and teen conversations, chauffeuring her brood from here to there, is alarmed by how swiftly she has seen the lyrics of emo songs _ like the one from the band Hawthorne Heights with the refrain, "so cut my wrist and black my eyes, so I can fall asleep tonight or die" _ devolve from what she calls "bubblegummy" just a couple years ago to what she now sees as "seriously intense."
"It gets really scary when it's really cool to get yourself hospitalized," said the woman, who asked not to be named.
"And the real concern," she said, "is that you'd hate to see a kid who is depressed, who you blew off as, `Oh that.' And then something really bad happens."
www.wikihow.com/Be-Emo
The emo subculture is associated with emo music but also extends into appearance, behavior, and perspectives on life. If you want to get in touch with your inner emo, here's how.
1. Steps: Understand what emo is. Like any style, fashion or culture, the exact definition is up for debate and often varies according to personal expression. The term emo is loosely associated with emotionally charged punk rock, however it originally meant emotional hardcore - modern 'emo' music is more of a branch off from what it started out as. Most emos like underground or indie music. Emo has branched out from punk/indie.
2. Support the music. Emo is a rock music genre, usually consisting of emotional lyrics and (optional) "screamo." Over the years, this music genre was usually seen as underground until recent times, making emo music more popular than ever. This music sometimes consists of lyrics seen by many as "whiny," and "sensitive", which is not true in all instances. Remember that MTV does not portray the "correct" or "true" emo.
o Consider taking up an instrument such as the bass, guitar, drums or even the violin. If you invest enough time into it, the violin can sound incredibly emo.
o Try writing poetry and turning it into songs.
3. Test yourself. Try listening to emo music. If you end up liking this type of music, you're probably a "true" emo. Getting inner emo is all a matter of finding out if you have it or not.
4.

Dress the part. After you have discovered your inner emo, try shopping for a new wardrobe. Emo fashion has roots in punk, goth, and scene. Wear pencil tight jeans, tight shirts with emo band logos on them, studded belts, and an old, black and worn down pair of chuck taylor converse or vans. Thick, black-rimmed glasses are not uncommon for emo guys. Also, stripes and checkers are big in the emo culture. It is emo to wear dark colors with a bit of neon mixed in, but no emos will tease you for wearing colors.
5.

Change your hair. Dye it black with perhaps some blond or unnatural colored streaks, especially in the bangs. If you are a girl, you may possibly want to cut your hair to a very short bob-like hairstyle but keep your bangs long, swept drastically to one side and covering your eye. Or, for those who like Long hair, get many choppy layers and highlights. For a guy, you may want to spike up the back side, and pat down on the front side. You could also get your bangs/fringe dyed a lighter color than the rest of your hair.
6. Get the attitude. A lot of times, emo is associated with being bitter, depressed, insecure and resentful. But at its core, you can be emo because you're sensitive, introspective, thoughtful, and quiet.
7. Learn to love yourself and others. The truth is, you and everyone else are all people deep down, and even though we all want to be noticed for our individualities, It's essential not to segregrate yourself. Even though you may look different, treat everyone else as your equal, and don't stick to only having emo friends if you don't want to. Just do what makes you happy socially. #*Kindness is a basic expectation for social skills, and even if you decide to go along with this guide on the way to being emo, don't ever think that people outside of this culture don't understand you. Without the look, you may very well be the same as them. The popular cheerleader and/or jock at your school may have similar everyday problems as you. Loving yourself is also very important.
8. Being emo is a choice, so you might want to expect prejudice, but don't accept what that person says as truth. If you trust in yourself that you are truly being yourself, then there is no need to be offended by their misunderstanding. A majority of the time, if the complaints are coming from friends or family, they are just worried about you. It's okay to express yourself, but giving off too much negative thinking will just irritate yourself and the people around you.
9. Warnings: You may be subjected to negative criticisms by your non-emo friends and possibly the majority of society. Just ignore them or, try to explain to them that just because you dress differently doesn't make you any different from them, infact emo people are really cool and nice(but you can't say that about every single person).
10. Don't slit your wrists. People who do do this are most likely suffering from depression, and the habit should not be taken lightly. Whoever came up with the idea that all emo people slit their wrists is a very closed-minded person. Emo people are emotional and are not afraid to share their pain and experiences. A lot of emo people also may be uncomfortable with talking and thus resort to cutting to show their pain - this is not a trend, and depression is not an accessory.
11. Avoid scenes that promote pain or self-injury in general.
12. Just be yourself. Nothing is worse then an emo poser.
13. Don't act like you are trying to be emo, otherwise you're just a wannabe.
14. Things You'll Need: EyeShadow
15. More Piercings The Better
16. Eyeliner
17. Converse shoes, Globes, DCs or Vans
18. Band or retro t-shirts
19. A liking for emo bands
20. Thick black rimmed glasses
21. Wrist bands
22. Black nail polish
23. Black Gloves with the finger tips cut off or arm warmers
24. Skinny pencil black or dark wash jeans
25. Ripped jeans
26. An emo fringe, a fringe that covers most or the entirety of one eye.
27. Random Bracelets (Mostly Bright colours Or Destinctive Design)
28. Original Personality
29. Random colored hightlights
EMO SUCKS AND SO DO YOU
If you are "emo" there are a few things you should know...
First off Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto are cool and yes,... you indeed suck.
Emo is not hardcore, nor is it metal.
Emo does to metal what rap did to heavy metal, infects it with ignorance and "anti-conformist conformism" like nu metal Korn crap - it's a fad and a bandwagon that appeals to 13 year old girls and 14 year old boys who care more about their hair and what others think about them to ever grasp what follows on this anti-emo page.
Here are just a few reasons why emo sucks and so do you:
1. Your emo ass would get handed to you at a real hardcore show back in the 80's.
2. Even Ian MacKaye thinks you're lame.
3. If you even call or consider yourself "emo" you suck.
www.anti-emo.com/emo-sucks/
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What do you hate about emos?
• Yeah, we all hate emos, but what's the one thing in particular you truly despise about them?

For me, it's gotta be their attention-seeking, crybaby ways. "Please, look at me. LOOK AT MEEE! I'm slitting my wrists, will you look at me now!?"

FFS! It makes me sick...---blackproject
• i hate that too.. and how they go on and on about how much eveyone hates them and they dont say anything nice about them.. NO FUCKING WONDER! YOURE A GOD DAMN EMO! NO-ONE LIKES THEM!

and how they mope around like everythings comming to an end... if the world were really ending then i would be out there getting wasted and doing as much fun things as i could!

i found it neat how bad one person got insulted from getting called an emo at a bus stop about twenty minutes drive away from where i live.. the guy that got called emo stabbed and killed the person that called him emo XP

serves him right i think.. its almost one of the worst insults here at the moment.

if you are emo and you dont admit it, everyone knows youre lying, but if you do admit it, everyone hates you just that one little bit more.

• I hate the hair style, and the clothing style, since when is it cool to wear tighter jeans than girls? Power metal guys do it, but at least its not actual girly jeans. I also hate their attention seeking ways.

• Yeah man, it's awful. More and more bands are turning emo...atm, metalcore seems to be the genre being eaten away by the emo plague...terrible... >_<

• Okay, well, I realized all you people are all metal heads, and I'm just a little girl who listens to Alternitive, 90's rock, SOME metal, J-rock and j-pop. >.>

Anyway, I just hate how they took every kind of clothing that is unique (and sometimes just nawful) and wear it. I mean, I like some of the cute skirts and I try it on, and my friend looks at me and is like "That's so emo!". And you know, on impulse I hang it back up. It's like someone sprayed urine on some really cute things with the word emo.


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This is from a wapanese girl's opinion...

But on a different note, I hate how the emo boys and girls think that they're self destruction makes them cool. It's getting to the point where it's not funny anymore it's just retarded. Like this girl I had to sit next to on the bus to school....
She cuts and cuts and cuts. Then got all upset when her step mother told her she should be a butcher.

She told me about it while she cried and cried. I don't get it, they have horrible logic.

Maybe that's another thing I hate about them.

And then, the boys.... don't get me started--lillyphilia
DISCRIMINATION: Do Americans really have discrimination to emos and stuff?
is it true that most american still love RAP,HIP HOP and GANGSTA song, and they would call emo is just crap??? i dont know i think even punk, but emo came from punk, so whats the point hating what came from you???
It is the image of emos that people hate. I have a lot of emos in my school and they all cut their wrists and act like the whole world is ending because their gf/bf broke up with them. Personally I hate emos, but it is becasue of the ones that I have had the experience of getting to know. I think they are stupid sissy posers, who want attention, and they say " no, trust me we don't want attention" but if that is actually true then they would wear black and be all wierd I thnk they are just CRAVING attention --pcracegrl

WHAT EMOS SAY ABOUT THIS:
stop discrimination against emos <3-emo-there-people->
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Isnt it funny that when you go to the shops with your friends you look down at the girl with black jeans and studs but smile at the girl wearing a a mini with a tshirt that barely cover anything?

Isnt it funny you can change your music taste to impress a guy but when it comes to a girl who likes her own music and her own style, you give her a mouthful?

Isnt it funny that a guy can get away with being a gangsta but the emo gets a mouthful from everyone

are you laughing?

Isnt it funny an emo can be quiet all through the week but gets more shit from everyone than the girl who sleeps around and sells her virginity?

Isnt it funny that you dont mind your friends drinking, smoking but the minute someone mentions emo music you can give them a lecture on melodramatic teenage outcasts?

im not laughing

Its so funny that you and your friends can make a girls life hell and not know anything about the silent battle she might be fighting.

Isnt it funny that you can call emos, punks, goths the retards but still manage to get through your day without an inch of guilt in your heart.

HOW YOU CAN CALL A GIRL A POSER, HOW CAN YOU SAY "YOUR NOT EMO" OR "ATTENTION SEEKER" WITHOUT SPENDING A SECOND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THERE ARE CUTS ON HER WRISTS AND WHY SHE SPENDS HER LUNCHTIMES CRYING INSTEAD OR LAUGHING WITH HER FRIENDS

keep on laughing

Isnt it funny you can say and do all this without any idea of what is going on in this persons life

without knowing her situation with her friends

or her family

or her LIFE

BRAVE ISNT GOING UP ON STAGE AND STRIPPING

BRAVE IS NOT SAYING A SPEECH

OR DUMPING YOUR BOYFRIEND

BRAVE IS

GOING TO SCHOOL ON MUFTI DAY AND NOT FOR A SECOND CARE WHAT THE WHORES AROUND YOU ARE SAYING ABOUT YOUR CLOTHES

ITS LISTENING TO YOUR OWN MUSIC AND BEING PROUD OF IT

ITS GOING THROUGH EVERY DAY WITH THE THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO YOUR FACE AND BEHIND YOUR BACK AND YOU STILL KEEP QUIET

ITS KNOWING WHAT YOUR "FRIENDS" ARE SAYING ABOUT YOU AND STILL CALLING THEM YOUR FRIENDS

BRAVE IS KNOWING THAT TOMORROW ISNT A BRIGHT AND HAPPY FUTURE

ITS ANOTHER DAY OF BITCHING AND DODGING RUMORS----AN EMO
There is a HUGE discrimination against Emos in my school! If you don't know, Emo is short for emotionals, and the kids listen to "hard core punk music," wear a lot of black eyeliner, orange eyeshadow--even the boys, and are commonly confused with Goths, which they are NOT. Anyway, its this huge saga, where the police were brought into our school because of a "war" for the jock hallway between obviously--the jocks and the Emos. Then, boys in my 3A class were making fun of an Emo girl in my class, and she made the counselor call all the boys in the class into his office one-by-one to talk to them about the discrimination that is making my female student feel unsafe in our classroom. They honestly, are just boys, they think the are funny and even flirting? and she sadly, feels like it is an unsafe learning environment. Then, my journalism students want to publish an "opinion" peice in our paper about how Emos, "need to get lives," I don't let them print it of course, and then a few girls print some off and slip them in the paper as "flyers." I got most of them out, but of course, administration finds out about it when some Emo parents call into the school upset. I tell on the girl in my class, but I feel awful! I feel more awful about my journalism student who is going to hate me, than I do about the few students who saw the flyer, but I am also livid about the student! Anway, Emo kids are NOT Gothic, do not worship the devil, just listen to punk music and dress hard-core 80's, i.e. good kids for the most part with identity crises like the rest of the bunch, but they choose to show it in their style. Anway, I asked my students why there was so much prejudice about it and they said, I don't know, they are just "new" and "different" I guess. WOW. Difference? There have been major battles in our country over the difference and our right to be different. What is it about difference that inherently causes discrimination?---NON-EMO
Emo hairstyle: For one, because the emo scene is very DIY-oriented, hair that is not professionally cut is considered to be more scene than hair that is. Emo kids have their friends cut their hair, or they cut it themselves. Jet black, bleached blonde, or dark hair with a reddish or purplish tinge are all very emo, as is hair with distinct sections of contrasting colors (all-over black hair with a section of bleached blonde in the undermost layer of the back is quite common).

Emo hair is short-ish, and does not differ much from gender to gender. It is common for boys and girls to have oily and/or shaggy hair that covers the eye and reaches the shirt-collar. Boys usually wear theirs unkempt and girls may wear clips on the front. It is common for both to have bangs cut straight across their browridges, and swept to one side.

The most common emo hair

What is most commonly implied by the term "emo" in reference to hair is dyed jet-black hair that is sloped to cover, or partially cover, one of the eyes (usually the right eye). Sometimes this is known as the "emo comb-over", because the way the emo hair sweeps from the back of the head looks like the way an old man would grow a patch of comb-over hair to hide a bald spot. The popularisation of this hairstyle is often attributed to the band Refused, whose members had uniform jet black hair sloped to partially obscure the right eye. The uniform dress code of the band has also been an influence of emo fashion — especially the fashioncore strand — in general.

As the term "emo" has become more and more ingrained in the popular conscience, "emo hairs" have come to include a much wider array of styles. These more complex styles are largely associated with the fashioncore style of emo fashion and are most commonly sported by scene kids.
Why do some emos still continue being an emo?
Emo accessories:
• Accessories
o Like emo guys, emo girls should also wear wristbands, especially if they're colored all sorts of happy colors. While it might confuse people as to whether you're a raver, piercing your ears like 2983492 times and wearing babydoll shirts with "Unhappy Chick" written on them will eliminate confusion.
o If you're an emo girl and you look good, then you're doing something wrong! Gaining a boatload of weight, or slimming down to the width of a pencil will help you look like you're just not good enough to be happy with a significant other.
o You must own 3128912 guitars to give off that "I'm in a band" look. So what if you can't play, you LOOK like you can.
o Carry around a poetry book and whenever you see your emo soulmate, read them the poem that you wrote for them.
Is Emily strange an emo?---
emily the strange
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Cool character found on a whole ton of merchandise. Some posers think that wearing Emily the Strange and Ruby Gloom stuff makes them emo or whatever but it doesn't. ITs just a cool character. Get over it posers, you're ruining it for the rest of us.
Emos say:(friendster groups forum)
1.) Emo DOES NOT stand for emotional. 2.) A person can not be emo, as its physically impossible for one to be Emotive Hardcore. 3.) EMO IS NOT A FASHION. 4.) Emo did not evolve to what it is confused with today, but rather the term [emo] was completely bastardized and raped of its original and true meaning by the mainstream music industry. 5.) Emo IS NOT DEAD... Emo still lives on today in the form of Emotive Hardcore and todays current Screamo bands.

whew!!

*__no epals allowed!__*---gem
2.) sum pow pro di namn lhat...emo kc,ung mga heart broken...pro d lahat adik...nasa tao na poun^^  ---patz
3.) !-tama po si kuya oh.. EMO is a sub-genre of punk.. hindi ito basta emotional lang, pro emotional hardcore.. inde po au pede maging EMO kci we cant be a walking genre.. ^^---lheira
4.) Pag kalbo pwede bam aging emo?
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