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So, they're saying it's the new grunge???I guess I could see that...Just instead of the flannel you wear your sister's pants and sag.??LoL

Emo is a style of punk originally called "Emotional Hardcore" or "Emocore".??You can see where the simplified "Emo" comes from.??Emo started getting famous with the advent of "Screamo" in which, well, the singers screamed - in my guess - to attempt to sound more metal, or hardcore.??Mixing their styles with a bit of some pop influence also brought emo punk to the limelight (in case you were wondering why punk is big now when it's been around for 30 years).

Emo got big with Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, and Blink-182 which is odd because I am the polar opposite of Emo but I love Dashboard Confessional.??LoL

The popular stereotype for emo is tight clothing, studded belts, skater shoes, and long bangs brushed to one side, possibly covering one (or, for some reason, both) eye(s).??Hair is usually dyed black but may also have another color in there, like pink, blue, or red.

In the beginning Emo was actually characterized by a rather clean-cut look and sweater vests.??As the genre grew on younger, "gothier" teens, however, it went rather dark.??Nowadays Emo is associated with Goth in that it is dark, but differs greatly from Goth, imo (I love Goth, hate emo.??>_> ).??Emo also vicariously supports self-abuse such as cutting and even suicide.??Though most bands don't say cutting and/or suicide are okay, they do promote the benefits of cutting as being better than suicide or living a life void of feeling (i.e.- Papa Roach's "Last Resort" - "Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort.??Suffocation, no breathing.??Don't give a f*ck if I cut my arm, bleeding.").??It is believed by some that cutting is the only way one can truly feel (I have friends covered in scars... Their explanation is always the same.??-_- ).??The advocacy of suicide is also misdirected in that lyrics don't tell listeners to kill themselves should something/everything go awry, they do express it's ease and hardly argue the negative side of the act.

Emo is also known as the "Suicide Cult" due to it's depressing lyrics and lifestyle.??Due to all of the suicide and self-harm propaganda and imagery some people lose sight of what is right and true and kill themselves in a belief that it is somehow glamorous or perhaps even cool.??One such story to reach great fame was of 13-year old Hannah Bond who hung herself shortly after revealing to her father that she slashed her wrists as some sort of "Emo Initiation Ritual".??She was known as a great pupil and a happy kid.??She told her parents the Emo thing was just a fad (and it is) and they believed her.??She had a Bebo account where her avatar was a girl's freshly gashed wrists, she had an image of a diary entry reading, "Dear Diary, Today I give up..." and wrote of the "glamours" of suicide; specifically hanging.??She hung herself from her bunk bed with a neck tie.??-_-


I'm not one to speak out against what people do in general, but people who take a fad too seriously need to be talked to.??I'll think you're silly for wearing your pants too tight and covering half your face with your bangs, but you are free to do it.??If you start to cut yourself or think about suicide, though, I'll be the first to tell you that Emo is bullsh*t and you shouldn't lose yourself in what others think is cool or because what someone famous said makes sense to you.??You need to face the world subjectively so you can become your own person, strong and sensible.??If you look at the world objectively, taking what others say as fact, then you're just a face with someone else's voice.??=/


So, there's Emo in a nutshell.