okay. i’ve noticed a lot of people claim they’re emo. im sorry…but NO!
let’s define emo, shall we?
EMO- emo’s short for “emotive hardcore” and its NOTHING BUT a sub genre (this is a very tight and specific word. there’s nothing more to it!).
SCENESTERS:
someone asked me: “well for hip hop: there are hip hoppers; for rock: there are rockers; for punk: there are punks. why can’t we have emo people w/o being called poseurs if there’s an emo genre?”
-simple:
1.)because people nowadays interpret “emo” as a fashion statement, a way of life, and other general crap (that holds infinite sub topics under them which then resulted to giving “emo” numerous possible false and vague principles) without even knowing the true meaning of “emo”. having a hairstyle that covers a portion of your face, wearing make-up and skinny jeans, cutting yourself, and babbling about your miserable life DOES NOT MAKE YOU AN EMO KID! and this is the time when the so-called “scenesters (kids/people)” or “scene” (for short) joins the different categories of the clique. and
2.)because REAL emo music has been DEAD for like a decade or even more`what you guys categorize as emo nowadays are really pop punk/pop rock (thanks to mainstream shit) and not emo! HUUUGE DIFFERENCE!!! dude, i would absolutely bet ONE GRAND if you ask someone who claims he/ she’s emo, they WON’T be able to name a REAL EMO band (or post emo for that matter) correctly without digging up some serious and reliable info on the internet. heck i highly even doubt they’ll come up with a REAL SCREAMO band-which is veeery different compared to emo, by the way. oh and guess what…i dont have $1,000 on me! but that’s how confident i am regarding this “fact” (quote for emphasis-yeah that’s right i did consider it as a ”FACT”!)
WHY “EMO” CANNOT STAND FOR “EMOTIONAL”:
-forthrightly speaking, that question’s just pure bullcrap. did it ever enter your mind that if emo had the meaning of “emotional”, hell it would’ve been the LARGEST genre coz music’s all about emotions! then, emo would’ve been uber popular, hence, people wouldn’t have come up with such imbecile questions wondering why a person can’t be called “emo”.
i hope this explanation helped you understand why emo can’t mean emotional, why people cannot be categorized as such, and somehow clean the reputation of the bastardized word we call “EMO”.

Credit: My friend: AamhiiE@Multiply

It's all true. Just wearing color black, you can call yourself "EMO"?! Yeah, RIGHT!
I wish my friends can read it. T__T

Labels: emo, meaning