What do you consider "emo"?

[Tiny Dancer]

I would never call bright eyes and death cab for cutie emo! They are indie bands, and their lyrics are not all about "my life sucks i want to die". The perfect example of Emo is silverchair, definitely.

 

[MissAnia]

Emo is not about "my life sucks and I want to die".... Emo means emotional...

 

[Tiny Dancer]

Emo is not about "my life sucks and I want to die".... Emo means emotional...

Haha, please. So it isnt emotional saying that your life suck and you want to die? well, ok. Anyways, you can't take it so seriously that all emotional music is emo. Emo has becomed a category based on teens and their melodramatic lifes. Again, here's an example from Silverchair:

I dream about, how it's going to end,
Approaching me quickly,
Leaving a life of fear,
I only want my mind to be clear,
People, making fun of me,
For no reason but jealousy,
I fantasise about my death,
I'll *********** from holding my breath,

THATS emo. Emotional in the meaning of "whining" to be honest. There are lots of beautiful emotional music out there that would not be in the emo category

 

[AlmostFamous]

Haha, please. So it isnt emotional saying that your life suck and you want to die? well, ok. Anyways, you can't take it so seriously that all emotional music is emo. Emo has becomed a category based on teens and their melodramatic lifes. Again, here's an example from Silverchair:

I dream about, how it's going to end,
Approaching me quickly,
Leaving a life of fear,
I only want my mind to be clear,
People, making fun of me,
For no reason but jealousy,
I fantasise about my death,
I'll *********** from holding my breath,

THATS emo. Emotional in the meaning of "whining" to be honest. There are lots of beautiful emotional music out there that would not be in the emo category

Generalizing is obnoxious. *sigh. Even all the music by any certain emo artist does NOT always say something about wanting to die.

And Conor Obherst has one of the whiniest and emo-ish lyrics of them all!

 

[Tiny Dancer]

"OK". The question was "what do you consider emo" and I answered. I did not say ALL lyrics by emo-bands expressed suicidal feelings. I said whining. But if you don't agree, fine. Nothing to start calling me obnoxious for

 

[SiennaInLondon]

^That's nice