Emo
type: MusicGenre
type: Q188451
type: Concept
type: Thing
type: MusicalComposition
type: Genre
type: TopicalConcept
label: Emocore @nl
label: Емо @uk
label: Эмо (музыкальный стиль) @ru
label: Emo (hudba) @cs
label: エモ @ja
label: Emoo (muziko) @eo
label: إيمو (نوع موسيقي) @ar
label: 이모 (음악) @ko
label: Emo (muzyka) @pl
subject: Category:American styles of music
subject: Category:Indie rock
subject: Category:Hardcore punk genres
subject: Category:Canadian styles of music
subject: Category:Music of New Jersey
subject: Category:Music of New York (state)
subject: Category:Music of Washington, D.C.
subject: Category:Controversies in Iraq
subject: Category:Stereotypes
subject: Category:Controversies in Mexico
subject: Category:Emo
subject: Category:Music controversies
subject: Category:Alternative rock genres
subject: Category:1990s in music
subject: Category:1980s in music
subject: Category:Post-hardcore
subject: Category:Pop punk
subject: Category:Controversies in Russia
subject: Category:Culture-related controversies
subject: Category:2010s in music
subject: Category:2000s in music
subject: Category:2000s controversies in the United States
subject: Category:2010s controversies in the United States
subject: Category:Music and fashion
subject: Category:20th-century music genres
subject: Category:21st-century music genres
subject: Category:Rock music genres
subject: Category:2000s fads and trends
subject: Category:1980s neologisms
align: left
hypernym: Style
sound recording: Emo Sound 1
sound recording: Emo Sound 2
description: The melodic guitars, varied rhythms and personal lyrics of Rites of Spring changed the hardcore punk scene and helped launch the "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" style in the 1980s.
description: most-appreciated
description: "The Middle" topped Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and helped Bleed American to go platinum.
description: 1990.0
description: "Kiss the Bottle" is considered one of Jawbreaker's definitive and
description: "21 Guns" was released to commercial and critical acclaim in May 2009. The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Song in 2010. The makeup of "21 Guns" represents an emotional rock ballad, as opposed to Green Day's usual pop-punk sound.
description: The Promise Ring's Nothing Feels Good achieved wide success with an effective blend of pop and punk.
description: songs.
filename: The Promise Ring - Why Did We Ever Meet.ogg
filename: Rites of Spring - Remainder.ogg
filename: Jimmy Eat World - The Middle.ogg
filename: Mineral - If I Could.ogg
filename: Jawbreaker - Kiss the Bottle.ogg
quote: 2000.0
quote: Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems to solely mean different things to different people − like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits. [...] The word has survived and flourished in three decades, two milleniums, and two Bush administrations. [...] It's older than most of its fans. It's been a source of pride, a target of derision, a mark of confusion, and a sign of the times. It's been the next big thing twice, [and] the current big thing once. And yet, not only can no one agree on what it means, [but] there is not now, nor has there ever been, a single major band that admits to being emo. Not one.
quote: This is such a funny time... I think just because so much of this language, it's like a youth code where heavy topics like suicide, depression, self-harm, things like that were like being grappled with in the music, but very rarely in a way that glorified it... Their music was a way out of it, or offering hope — a way that people could process these things and deal with it.
quote: The one fact that no one seems to debate − or at least debate that loudly − is that emo emerged from hardcore.
quote: In the early [2000s], bands from cultural hinterlands—Boca Raton, Las Vegas, the suburbs of New Jersey and Illinois, Long Island—took their predecessors’ interest in private emotion and the legacy of punk and added a new ingredient: pop ambition. There was fast, percussive guitar strumming; earworm riffs; frenetic drumming; and melodies full of stadium-ready sing-along moments, delivered in a nasal style that flirted with whining and sometimes crossed over into yelling.
other names: emocore
other names: Emotional hardcore
width: 32.0
width: 17.0
width: 25.0
other topics: Scene (subculture)
bgcolor: #edfaf8
regional scenes: * Washington, D.C. * Midwestern U.S. * New Jersey
music fusion genre: Emo rap
music fusion genre: Emo pop
music subgenre: Screamo
region: United States