Originally posted by: ggnl
Originally posted by: NutBucket
Originally posted by: rdubbz420
Growing up emo bands (Gorilla Biscuits, Minor Threat) where just hardcore kids who cared more about social issues. Now they seem to just be just a bunch of pusified brats that wear makeup. Kids today.:thumbsdown:
Huh? Minor Threat is emo?
lol, no
I guess you guys didn?t read the part of my post that said emo is different now than what it used to be.:roll:
from wiki
"Origins-
Main article: Emo (music)
For more than a decade, the term emo was used almost exclusively to describe the genre of music that spawned from the 1980s DC scene and all of the bands inspired by it. However, during the late 1990s, as emo music began to emerge from the underground into popular consciousness, the term began to be used as a reference for more than just the music.
The origin of the word emo itself is unclear. In a 1985 interview by Rites of Spring in Flipside Magazine, members of the band noted that some of their fans in DC were starting to call them "emo", arguably because of the state of emotion that the band displayed during their shows. In later years, the word emo was viewed as a contraction of "emotional hardcore" or "emocore", which was the popular designation of the music genre. (One contingent of the scene insists that emo is a contraction for "emotive hardcore". However, no primary source has been found to confirm use of that term prior to the mid-1990s.)
In recent years, as its use has come to define more than just the music, the word emo has more often been viewed as simply being short for "emotional".
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