The term emo is a apocope of emotional hardcore or emo-core and refers to the lyrics of groups of the genre, characterized by addressing varied emotions and moods, looking also generate these same emotions in the listener. To achieve greater expressiveness used in his music changes pace and Crescendo, combining in a single song outbursts of fury inherited from hardcore, with more gentle sounds.
Attitude of emo groups
The emo bands are trying not to make music purely commercial, because they try to satisfy an audience with music majority "artificial" or "packaged" would be inconsistent with express genuine emotions. In fact, both the concerts of these groups as his records often have low prices compared with those of other artists. Much of emo groups are contrary to articles merchandising music, such as T-shirts or other products to make money.
Today the term emo is used to identify certain attitudes and certain aesthetic patterns often unrelated to the emo-core music and do not coincide with the original concept of the term.
Screamo
In a strange twist, screamo, a new subgenus of emo much more crude, based more on the hardcore punk pure, reaching confused with this. In the beginning, was defined as "emo violence" or "chaotic emo" until bands like Saetia, they proposed the term screamo. He has found great popularity in recent years through a bands like Thrice and Glassjaw.The term "screamo", however, is used to describe a completely different genre in the early 90, and the same bands were more similar to emocore early this decade..
False emo
Since the mid-nineties, there was a change in the meaning of the term "emo" and "screamo", which are attributed to a new wave of bands that had no relation to what until now was the emo music. Proceeds from this, a new scene of "emo fashion" saw the light: stereotypes of self-mutilation, crying and the words "emo" and "screamo" used regularly turn to gangs pop punk, metalcore, post-hardcore or, simply, the alternative rock in general, between the bands most wrongly named in this genre are bands like Green Day, Panda, My Chemical Romance, Panic! a at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars, From First to Last, Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, Underoath, The Used, Alesana, among others. This is due mainly to the media of farándula rocker, magazines and internet. Sometimes also called "Popcore", "emobop", "mall emo", "mainstream" and "fake emo" (false emo), for those people "in the wave." None of these bands remains under any similarity with what aspect formerly known as screamo or emo: neither in terms of music, ethics, letters, or aesthetics.
A magazine NME, sometimes has been attributed as responsible for proposing the "screamo" sound like the new fashion in 2003 and to identify bands like Finch or The Used, which have nothing in common.
MySpace, which offers free choice of musical profiles, includes the term emo on the list of genres. However, very few of these bands really play this kind of music (in part because some of the traditional emo bands, have opted to use other genres to describe their sound).
The album more representative of emo
At number 179 of the Spanish magazine Rockdelux was published a retrospective on the emo-core where the twelve discs were chosen more representative of the genre. These albums were as follows:
- Jawbreaker - Bivouac (1992) Jawbreaker - Bivouac (1992)
- Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (1994) Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (1994)
- Sunny Day Real Estate - Sunny Day Real Estate (1995) Sunny Day Real Estate - Sunny Day Real Estate (1995)
- Christie Front Drive - Christie Front Drive (1996) Christie Front Drive - Christie Front Drive (1996)
- Sense Field - Building (1996) Sense Field - Building (1996)
- Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? (1996) Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? (1996)
- The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good (1997) The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good (1997)
- Mineral - End Serenading (1997) Mineral - End Serenading (1997)
- The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile (1997) The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile (1997)
- Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now (1998) Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now (1998)
- The Van Pelt - Sultans of Sentiment (1999) The Van Pelt - Sultans of Sentiment (1999)
- Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (1999) Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (1999)
