Difference between Scene and Emo

Scene=a person who is assoiciated with the modern music scene, usually being hardcore/punk rock type music. Pays close attention to the latest fashion trends and usually tries to make their own. Usually has a myspace featuring dinosaurs guns etc. Usually has Long hair on guys and shorter hair on girls which is usually died different colors. Sometimes they are very elitist especially to youths who copy their personal styles. Some fashion trends of scene kids are girl pants, band tee shirts, bandanas, vans, converses, shirts with dinosaurs/guns etc, large sunglasses, polka dots, head bands, large jewelry.

Emo=Person who listens to emotional music, and usually cry and dont mosh at their concerts. Kinda of like goths but less ugly and more emotional. Usually rant about how unfair the world is and how their last boyfriend/girlfriend was the only one they will ever love. Many jokes about them being suicidal but mainly they are doing it for attention.

Many people confuse scene kids and emos b/c they wear similiar clothing and sometimes have similiar styles. Both wear small band tee's they buy at their concerts even though they like different music. Some scence guys wear girl pants as well as some emos making them even more easily confused.

Scence kids and emo kids are very different mainly in the type of music they like and their outlook on life in general. Scence kids are fun and usually are at local concerts/parties. Emo kids are sad and usually stay at home and write poetry and check their myspaces.

Scene kid: "i cant wait to go to my concert and mosh"

Emo kid: "i cant wait to go to my concert and sob at this life's black abyss that is my heart"

Scene kid: "ok...bye"

Emo Definition -Some pointers about emo fashions

So,What is emo? Well most people would consider it punk with emotion is what we would call the classification of a new rising way of feeling your inner self.

Close enough to punk and rock Emo is now know for it's more emotional state of mind. Instead of the anger hard-core way of expressing one-self , Emo (short for emotional) has taken a new tole on the twentieth century of expressing yourself. From the music with strong emotion and feeling, unlike hard rock or this is more of an alternative way to let your feeling be known. Emo is not only a classification or a type of music it's also taken over the way one expresses themselves by dressing. It includes the tighter fitting pants to the dyed-black or dark hair with it covering your face. The longer hair in front with the spikes in the back is also a more Emo- or emotional look to dressing. Emo is also being known as for the hot emo guys and emo girls kissing. From pictures all on the web to the music videos. Hot emo girl to girl and well as hot emo guy to guy is becoming more and more adventurous and more open concluding; Emo meaning being comfortable with oneself. Its a more direct way of altering the feelings one has without words, just emotion.

Some say music is not a type of music. That it is more of a fashion and a way of feeling, hence the emotional. Just recently people have been considering emo to be a genre or music.. Taking back Sunday is one of the many bands people consider to be emo.

Wondering why everyone hates emo? Not all emo people are cry babies or sucidial. Many emo kids come from families which are having serious issues whether it being money issues or what have you

What is emo to mean to you? Send us what it means to you and we will add your description.

Viewers Voice

Emo,yes it is short for emotional. But, there is more to emo then hair and looks. Emo is a state of mind. Most people, made them selves appear emo. While in reality, they have to much hope to be emo. Emo is much like goth. But, Goth is Darker. Emo is more emotional, harder to fake. Yes, some emos cut themselves, but there is more than that. Emo is one of the hardest things, to explain. People hate emos, b/c they view us as suicidal ,cry babies, or just week. That's NOT what emo is. Suicidal yes, at times. But, don't judge me for being emo. It's not what I chose to be. It's just what I am.

Another says....

I think emo is just another label, but my definition of it will be for real. Personally, i used to cut,but I stopped. Take it from me. It's hard to stop! I am bi, but I'm not afraid of it! People shouldn't judge us for what we do and who we are. Emo is a music genre, but also a state of mind.If you're emo, don't be afraid of it.It's just who you are! It's perfectly normal to have a sensitive side, although I'm sassy sometimes. I'm really sensitive when 90% of the time. I love being who I am, though I get bullied alot. I don't care. Well, in my opinion, emo is just how people describe over-sensitive people. I write tons of poetry, and I'm in middle school. I am not ashamed to say I like girls, ever since I was 9,I have liked girls. I can't help how I feel! But over the summer,I've changed a bit. I'm not AS sensitive, but I still am. I don't let people put me down. Emo is just about being sensitive and expressing how you feel about something. If you get suicidal thoughts, talk to someone, trust me! Don't make the mistake I did. I am a lot better off without blades.


Some pointers about emo fashions (above simple, universal hardcore attire)

the Emo Romulan look - short, thick, greasy, dyed-black hair with bangs cut straight across the forehead, and cut high over the ears. Someone from Time In Malta recently described to me the San Diego Crimson Curse scene as "Spock Rock."
actually, any greasy dyed black hair. Bangs in front and spikes in back is very emo too.
horn-rim glasses, or at least thick black frames.
bald head, furry face (boys only). Goes especially well with horn-rims.
heavy slacks, often too tight and short.
thin, too-small polyester button-ups in dark colors, or threadbare children's size t-shirts with random slogans. Button the collar if you got one.
clunky black shoes
scarves
gas station jackets. This has diffused a lot over the years though, it's no longer exclusive to emo kids. Nowadays, you may want to select a nice corduroy denim jacket.
also classic outerwear but quickly diffusing to normality: the famous Blue Peacoat
barrettes on boys
make-up (male or female)
too-small cardigans and v-neck sweaters
argyle
anorexic thinness. Veganism helps here.

Video: What is emo? [humor]

Emo is short for emotive or emotional and describes an emerging social trend. This film explains what Emo is, where Emo comes from and wonders whether Emos' are ruining the country!

Emo Definitions

Emo Definitions
Emo definitions according to Urban Dictionary

Emo:

the type of music you listen to when, try as you might, you cannot get laid..and cry about it..

“Man, I’ve been listening to a lotta emo lately.”

Emo:

people who need a hug. A BIG, WARM hug.

“Cheer up emo kid!”

Emo:

Like a Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter.

“My life sucks, I want to cry.”

Emo:

Something all stereotypes agree on they hate.

Emo:

A strange breed of human that can be identified by stupid haircuts, suicidal tendencies, constant whining, the wearing of tight pants, and usually no mate. Because of this, scientists believe that most males in this species lack reproductive organs.

“Stop whining, you emo.”

Emo:

A bunch of mamby pamby spoon-fed fuckin fruitcakes that most people wanna kick in the back of the neck.

“When shopping at the mall all i saw was a bunch of fuckin’ emasculated suburban emo kids talking on thier cell phones.”

Emo:

Conformists in denial.

“Let’s all be different by dressing, talking, and acting exactly the same.”

Emo:

Emergency Management Office

In times of emergency or disaster, EMO coordinates the response of State agencies ensuring the most appropriate resources are dispatched to the impacted area

What is emo? -Attempting to Define Emo

Emm, it's a little hard to define what is "emo", finding an accurate definition for Emo is not easy you know, when I think one guy is emo, but others not, when I think that girl is really a hot emo girl, but others don't think she is emo. But, I’ll make the attempt to define..
Okay, to start off with you have to understand that what is considered Emo today and what Emo was, in it’s original form, are two completely different things, bearing little-to-no resemblance to one another. These two distinct styles can be categorised as:

Emotional/Emotive hardcore, AKA Emo-core, AKA Emo (early 80’s to early 90’s)
Mainstream Emo (2000 until present day)

Emo-Core the Birth of The Genre

Pay attention to that, the heading says genre, not culture. At this point Emo was simply a musical extension of the Hardcore Punk movement of the 80’s. It didn’t have it’s own distinctive fashion or visual style, it was quite simply a sub-genre. Followed by fans of the parent form, hardcore punk.

Hardcore punk incorporated elements of the 80’s thrash metal, rather ironic considering that thrash metal had, in turn, borrowed heavily from the early 80s punk movement.

Anyway, several of these hardcore punk artists felt that the aggression of the music, not to mention the violence of the scene, was too limiting on their personal expression through music.

It has to be remembered that punk was developed during a period of strife, economic as well as social. The artists spearheading the movement came from a world in which the future was uncertain, the world a dark and dangerous place, where one had to fight just to get through each day. As such, the music, the style, the attitude of punk as a whole was very aggressive. Punk looked out at the world and commented on, as well as attacked, what it saw to be wrong.

The mid-80s were a very different place. Punk had become rather impotent. It’s revolutionary ideals no longer had any place. As a result people began to look inward. The music became far more introspective (it is interesting to note that metal music went through a similar change, albeit about a decade later). Ones personal experiences and the way in which one was affected by the world, became the driving force of musical content.

This introspection was to give birth to the Emo sub-genre. The act of looking at and analyising oneself, ones own feelings, is what gave rise to the “Emo” tag. Though the exact source of this title is still uncertain, it is commonly agreed to stand for “emotional” or “emotive”.

Despite the so-called emotional aspect of early Emo, it’s roots in the Hardcore punk genre were still very much apparent. Emo took a great deal of influence from the melodic rhythms of Heavy metal and thrash metal artists of the time, taking a step away from the more cacophonous sounds of hadcore punk. This helped them to achieve their “emotional” sound.

At this point, Emo had taken aspects from both the Metal and the Punk scenes, it possessed the melody perfected by metal and expressed itself with the same teenage angst as punk, but it lacked the anger of either genre, expressing melancholy and disappointment rather than frustration or rage.

Despite it’s musical distinction from other genres and sub-genres, Emo was still not a culture in it’s own right. It’s fans were simply punks who happened to enjoy a few Emo bands.

Mainstream Emo, Emo as We Know it Today

As punk, through the growing popularity of artists such as Blink 182 and Greenday, became more and more accepted by, and absorbed into, the mainstream pop culture we began seeing the rise of “alternative” fashions amongst the kids that years before would have been considered “preppy” and in no way seen as belonging to any “alternative” group.

Dyed black hair, black clothing, dark make up, fashions that had once belonged to the “unaccepted” sub-cultures, the goths, the metalheads, the punks, began being touted by the mainstream majority of kids.

This, mostly teenaged-and-younger, crowd were labeled “Emo” because of their penchant for over-emotionality. Modern day Emos are the product of a generation, rife with learning disabilities and emotional disorders, struggling to understand themselves, much less the world in which they’re attempting to live. They are the middle- to upper-class, suburban white kids, whose parents were too busy earning money to pass on any sort of coping skills to their children. As a result, we have the Emo, for whom the world is a cruel place, and every inconvenience is a tragedy.

Trying to categorise what constitutes Emo music is almost impossible, as the number of bands adopted by this subculture are legion, and their styles range from melodic metal, through to bubblegum pop-punk. This serves to further prove the distinction between modern Emo and original Emo. Modern Emo is entirely a Subculture based around fashion and attitude, having almost nothing to do with the music to which it’s adherents listen

Emo is also the target of a great deal of derision at the the hands of other “alternative” subcultures, for a variety of reasons unique to each group:

Goth: Goths are technically supposed to be the deep, emotional and philosophical members of the alternative nation. Emos are often considered to be something akin to “baby goths” while goths despise any perceived resemblance between the cultures as they often view emos to be preppy kids playing at being goth without any idea what it means to be goth.
Metalheads: Metalheads see Emos as weak, having everything they could possibly want yet still complaining about how hard life is, when, in actuality, they have no idea how hard life really can be. Also, a lot of emos listen to “fake” metal bands and wear clothes proclaiming their love of this music. This tends to blur the line for outside observers between Metal and Emo, this is insulting to the Metalhead’s pride in his music. In addition, Emo is a culture based entirely around style and fashion, and most Emo males are metro-sexual. Although many Metalheads wear clothing proclaiming them as such, they largely reject the idea of fashion, and the inherent masculinity of the Metal subculture finds the idea of metro-sexuality to be repulsive.
Punks: Since, at its deepest roots, the emo subculture is a derivative of Punk, many Punks see Emos as being poseur punks. Their fashion adopts most heavily from “old-school’ punk styles, really having no identity of it’s own, and this can be considered by Punks to be largely responsible for the slow degradation of their cluture and music.

In conclusion

Once again, I see, I’ve gone way over the length I had originally planned for this piece to be. Hmmm.. Oh well, I, once again, say that I will expand on the subject of Emo in later posts. Exploring different aspects of their culture, fashion, interaction etc .

Emo is much brighter

The new cult of kids

The skull is one of her favorite symbols and the black color of their shirts and paint. But with goth and the Gothic scene these kids do not have much in common. They are EMOS, and their thoughts are not black. The new cult of the kids is much brighter than we think and consists of a lot of sense (Emotions): We belong together is their principal. The new community, it is easier to EMOS, Anmache otherwise minded to endure. The portal of the EMOS in the network is MySpace(may here you can make some friends if you do like this), where they constantly learn new friends. With them they meet in Germany to get out to replace them and to have fun. The photographenbuero will continue them on their paths to follow