| The emo style is a combination of punk and hard-core music styles. The term "emocore" comes from emotional hard-core and is thought to have appeared the middle of the 80s.
The first representatives of the subculture added melodic features to their songs. Sadness, love, sense of loneliness are usual topics of their songs. Thus, the emo style could be defined as rock with emotional lyric elements. Still, the definition of the emo style is still under debate.
Though the emo subculture was originally considered a music genre, now it is referred not only to music, but also to behaviour, fashion, style and the way of life.
The emo style is thought to be unfashionable. This way its representatives demonstrate that they are uninterested in social processes. Emos consider themselves outcasts and, hence, show their disregard for existing social rules and regulations through the emo style. Tight jeans and t-shirts, with printed names of popular emo bands, skate sneakers, richly coloured stockings, a wide range of accessories, badges, bangles create the image of an EMOtional youngster.
Hairstyles also contribute to the emo fashion. Popular looks are long side-swept bangs, commonly covering one or both eyes. Straightened and coloured black hair is also a part of the emo fashion. Hair is normally highlighted blue, pink, red, or blond. Short choppy layers of hair are also typical. Occasionally this fashion has been characterised as a fad. At the outset of the 2000s, the emo style was associated with a clean look, but as teens stuck to the style, it became darker, with long bangs and emphasis on the colour black supplanting sweater vests.
Emo adherents are very vulnerable characters. Psychologists regard them as introverts who are reluctant to socialise with the world around. Instead, they express their thoughts by means of poetry. Poems they compose are full of sadness, nostalgia and despair. Ordinarily these emotions are characteristic of teens aged 12 - 18, when they are emotionally and psychologically unstable. For many emo adherents emoism becomes a way of life. |
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