Emo

Emo City is a website dedicated to cool emo kids around the world and to people who just want to understand Emo. Emo City was made to be a the source of information about emo and a way of understanding this modern trend.

Emo City is a place where you can share pictures, thoughts, and songs. Or even if you just want to look at sexy Emo boys and Emo girls, that's cool, too. You can talk about Emo art, share art, read song lyrics, post song lyrics, look at Indie videos, and much more.

So for the curious cats...

Emo - just what does that mean anyway? 

Emo is sometimes associated with a certain fashion. Emo clothing is characterized by tight jeans on males and females alike, long fringe (bangs) brushed to one side of the face or over one or both eyes, dyed black, straight hair, tight t-shirts which often bear the names of rock bands (or other designed shirts), studded belts, belt buckles, canvas sneakers or skate shoes or other black shoes (often old and beaten up) and thick, black horn-rimmed glasses.  The fashion has changed with time. Early trends included straight, unparted hair, tightly fitting sweaters, button-down shirts, and work jackets.

Emo, in the popular media, has been associated with a stereotype that includes being emotional, sensitive, shy, introverted, or angsty. It is also associated with depression, self-injury, and suicide.

Where the term "emo" actually originated is uncertain, but members of the band Rites of Spring mentioned the word in a 1985 interview in Flipside Magazine that some of their fans had started using the term to describe their music.

Emo began to flourish in D.C., and the D.C. the sound began to influence other bands such as Moss Icon, Nation of Ulysses, Dag Nasty, Soulside, Shudder To Think, Fire Party, Marginal Man, and Gray Matter, many of which were released on MacKaye's Dischord Records.

As certain fashion trends and attitudes began to be associated with "emo", stereotypes emerged that created a specific target for criticism. The criticism was at first light-hearted and self-effacing. In ensuing years, the derision increased dramatically. Males found themselves hit with homosexual slurs, largely a reflection of the style of dress popular within the "emo scene" and the purported displays of emotion common in the scene. Complaints pointed to the histrionic manner in which the emotions were expressed.

Critics of emo have argued that there is a tendency toward increasingly generic and homogenized style. Many popular bands have attempted to disassociate themselves with the "emo" tag; some have adopted the genre designation post-hardcore. Despite the criticism, the modern version of emo has maintained mainstream popularity.