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Hmmm... Emo?? Almost everybody esp. teenagers knows this word... But, what's the real meaning of Emo? The first time I've hear the word Emo, I was so curious about it. I then asked one of my classmate about it. She didin't gave me any exact meaning of it but I remember that she had said, "Emo? Tao yun. ."(Emo? That's a person) I then concluded that maybe, "Emo" was a star, maybe he is an artist, a singer or maybe a dancer. Days have passed and I have noticed that Emo was getting more popular and some of my online buddies in friendster have changed their name. There are Broken Emo, Suicide Emo, Emo Lover, Sad Emo and others have tagged their names with the word Emo... And one thing that I've noticed with these peopl;e is their extraordinary look.. Eyes were blackened by the so-called eye-liner, cool haircuts, black outfits and checkered Chuck Taylor stuff.(so cool!!) I then thought that Emo, was not a person but a fashion.. But all of these conclusions of mine are all wrong... Because of being so curious about this so-called EMO.. I've researched what is Emo all about.. Emo is a style of rock music which describes several independent variations of music with common stylistic roots. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate. In the mid-1980s, the term emo described a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated in the Washington, D.C. music scene. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the emotional performances of bands in the Washington, D.C. scene and some of the offshoot regional scenes such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and later, Moss Icon. (In more recent years, the term "emotive hardcore" entered the lexicon to describe the period.) Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to refer to the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason had a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles. As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the mainstream style. As a result, the term "emo" became a vaguely defined identifier rather than a specific genre of music. Oh yeah.. That's it.. Emo is not a person nor a fashion... Emo is MUSIC.. :P
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June 14, 2008 at 8:41 pm