This website (like Clarissa) explains it all:
emo - short for "emotional." Emo is a broad title that covers a lot of different styles of emotionally-charged punk rock. This site is intended to introduce the reader to all the common styles, describe them musically, and give ideas about the essential records of all those styles. You will be an expert in emo, in the broad sense, after reading this website.
Posted by david on January 22, 2003Emo is poetry transformed into a chord of music that tends to provoke tears from the eyes. Originating from hard-core rock, it created a new form of music that speaks truly from the heart of the singer.
Posted by: Sam on December 27, 2003 04:44 PMEMO IS THE ONLY MUSIC WORTH LISTENING TO
fuck emo
Posted by: on June 16, 2004 06:08 AMWoah Emo rules!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Woah on July 12, 2004 02:30 PMI got a ?, I know ur suppose to be sXe to be emo. But can u still smoke cigs. and be emo?
Posted by: leahXc0re on July 13, 2004 10:06 AMsome examples of great emo music, and I am 39!
lol helps keep me young i guess..
My favorites
1. Finch
2. Yellowcard
3. unwritten law
4. Sugarcult
5. simple plan
6. AFI
7. Sum 41
and a few others.
Posted by: MIKE AINSWORTH on August 13, 2004 04:08 AMsum 41 is so not emo....yellowcard is not emo either i think
coheed and cambria rocks
Posted by: on August 22, 2004 09:04 AM...... Emo..... hahahahahahaha, where's my razorblade?
Posted by: Abo on October 24, 2004 09:34 AMwho the fuck decided to class "emitonal" music as "emo"? the beatles were writing emotional songs, are they emo? jesus
Posted by: on October 26, 2004 08:53 PMdespite popular opinion, emo started in the late 70's in the midwest. it came from punk and then was later dubbed hardcore because of the fact that it was screaming... genuine emo hasn't changed, it's just been renamed
Posted by: zero puslse on December 7, 2004 02:34 PM