describe a subculture which has evolved dramatically over time.
Emo has deep and spreading roots and few who are close to it regard it with much
fear. It began as a musical genre more than two decades but it has turned into an
attitude, a lifestyle and a fashion statement that has found a spiritual home on the internet.
The movement started from Washington DC’s energetic mid-Eighties punk scene,
picking up its name when the music was described as ‘emotional’ or ‘emotive’. It
went in and out of over the next decade and the followers migrated onto the web,
where lyrical worship of pain, loneliness and depression combined with a large
teenage fan base created one extensive online culture.
According to Andy Greenwald, the author of Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock,
Teenagers and Emo, a “perfect storm of music that is comforting, welcoming and
wants to draw you in and make you feel better, and then the great democratisation
of subculture by the internet”.
As with so many musical movements past and present, from hip hop all the way
back to mods and rockers, the look and the attitudes of the bands evolved into an
identity which many fans, especially those who considered themselves to be part of
the hardcore following, would consciously seek to adopt.
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