Emo music, who likes it?

dressing emo is wearing kinda tight pants, but not really tight. some wear girls pants. tight sweaters are standard issue, scarves, messenger bags(with or with out pins on it), black shirts, black hair that's neatly combed, and eyes full of tears.

 

I think the people who have already responded have described emo perfectly: WHINY.


Dashboard Confessional is the worst because not only are the lyrics whiny, the singer's voice SOUNDS whiny. At least bands like Simple Plan and Good Charlotte have good singers. Dashboard and Brighteyes are horrible.

And all the songs are so predictable. They're all about the same thing: the guy's girl dumped him and he wants her back but knows he can't have her. While the occasional song like that isn't necessarily a bad thing, every single song on your CD being about that subject is just a little over the top.

More people need to do what Godsmack did: Beat the shit out of annoying emo kids so that they have something new to whine about.

 

I dont really get the emo trend. To me its just giving a more
'sophisticated' name to what is essentially pop punk but with more depressing lyrics. The whiny, and frannkly disturbing, teenage voices are still there and the musical roots are the same too! Its simply pop punk dressed up in a more adult sounding name.

peace and love
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Gah, emo makes me sick. All the punk hangouts and undergrounds around here that I used to love have all turned emo, and all I see around school is depressed wrist cutters whining about how they hate their dads and how unfair life is. They share extremely crappy poems with each other and then cry and tell the others how "deep" it is. Gah, if you want "deep" pick up a doors CD, dont sit around whining about lost girlfriends and tight pants. I cant go anywhere without seeing a group of these emo kids moping about and listening to some shitty band, then whining about how misunderstood they are.


Suck it up and join the army.

 

dressing emo: girlpants, and died black or red (real red, not orange) always in ONE of your eyes... tight shirts.. black "i <3 NY" hoodies... chains... fetish pants... GIRL FETISH PANTS... etc.

 

Emo whiny? The lyrics maybe, but the music is actually quite happy.

Well, maybe I have different standards.

Try Shape of Despair for depressing music.

 

Same here.

I can imagine that life would suck and be depressing if all you sang and thought about was how depressing life "was".

Still better than just about all punk-rock tho.

 

the thing i don't like is when people confuse all indie rock for emo music... i hate the emo thing, and how every kid that goes to my college wants to be emo now... i don't even know what that really means... but people, for future reference (not saying any of you guys did at all), don't mix up the two... although some indie bands may be emo, not all emo bands are indie, and vice versa...

 

Some emo music I like.... like only Death Cab for Cutie.

 

indie > emo. if anyone messed that up, i'd bitch them out like a pissed off grandmother.

 

Is EMO an acronym? If so, what does it mean?

 

It's the stereotypical name for kids who cry about life being sucky and unfair to them all the time... like punk rock, just not as hyper.

 

Out of those four seems the first three can simply be chalked up to commercial fodder for the masses. Buy them now, they are cool. Brighteyes though? I only heard one album and to me it was kind of frantic and a bit psychotic. To each their own I guess though.

So if I go get some tight pants, a messenger bag, a girls sweater, and start writing forlorn poetry, I can be emo too?

 

isnt it an abreviation for emotional? or is that me imagining it

 

emo = emotional

 

i was right! nothing to be proud of...

 

There must be a new emo thread every month.
Way to not even know what emo is. Go listen to some Rites of Spring.

 

cant get into that kind of music. its pretty much a mix between hardcore and pop-punk and dont like either of those types of music. what happened to good old fashion punk rock........................ohhh ya........ it died.

 

I am a big fan of Sensefield and The Promise Ring.... that is about all the "emo" i ever listen to. Not a big fan of the genre, though.

 

some of the alien ant farm is kinda emoh-y... kinda... they're okay..