from: mark4689...not me!!!

EMO

Why is Emo so bastardized now a days... barely anyone who claims to know what it is doesnt really know what it is?

chances are.. that most of the people here dont even know the true meaning.

this is the script i wrote for a video that i recently made on youtube regarding this topic:

First off all you idiots that call yourself or other people emo are complete idiots and know nothing about music. Its a genre of music... not a lifestyle or a stereotype. People cannot be emo just like they can not be hip hop or rap. U dont call a *** a rap or an r&b.

Also Emo doesnt stand for emotional... it stands for emotive hardcore or "emotional hardcore" and its a genre of music that branched off of hardcore punk after minor threat broke up. It began in the late 80s in the dc scene and it started with a band called rites of spring. Other bands such as moss icon and indian summer started catching on to the new sound and it evolved from there. It sorta died out in the 90s and then reappeared in the late 90s. Then the press got a hold of the term emo and started misusing it which is why there are so many of you posers today.

Its characterized by its fast paced drums simmilar to hardcore, its vocals include mostly abrassive screaming, and the guitars are usually playing unharmonized power chords. A lot of current emo bands also have a really distinct bass sound. Basically its just do it your self hardcore. Saetia, Hot Cross, City of Caterpillar, Circle Takes the Square, pg. 99 and Orchid are all examples of modern emo bands not the stupid fake *** that all you posers listen to like taking back sunday, dashboard confessionals, my chemical romance, fallout boy and all that gay ***.

Emo has nothing to do with slitting your wrist or any of that ***. Although a lot of emo songs do have a lot of emotional and personal stuff in their lyrics. 1emo music is not an advocate for slitting your wrist or harming yourself and its not about crying yourself to sleep or writing poems. People who follow that are posers and dont know what hell emo is... and they need some serious mental counceling.

I know a bunch of you posers are going to comment this and call me stupid.. but the fact is you posers are the stupid ones. Maybe you should go learn something about music instead of listening to shitty music and tellin me I dont know what im talkin about. Thats all I got for you.

heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrSk9yK Hrts and heres a site for additional info http://www.freewebs.com/youdontknowemo /index.htm .

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