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Emo, whose participants are called emo kids or emos, is a subculture which began in the United States in the 1990s. Based around emo music, the subculture formed in the genre's mid-1990s San Diego sce
A boy and girl in 2007, displaying hair, fashion and snakebite piercings characteristic of the emo subculture
In the 1990s, emo fashion tended towards geek chic.
Eighteen Visions' "fashioncore" look was a prototype for 2000s emo fashion.
Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy displaying features of emo fashion: skinny jeans, eye liner, and flat, straight, jet-black hair with long bangs covering the face
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Emo is a genre of rock music that combines musical characteristics of hardcore punk with emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and post-hardcore from the mid-198
Emo subculture
…Emo, whose participants are called emo kids or emos, is a subculture which began in the United States in the 1990s. Based around emo music, the subculture formed in the genre's mid-1990s San Diego scene, where participants were derisively called Spock rock due to their distinctive…
Hardcore punk band Minor Threat in 1981
Sunny Day Real Estate performing in 2010
Cap'n Jazz live in 2010
The band Weezer (pictured) released the album Pinkerton, an album that was originally a critical and commercial failure. Nonetheless, Pinkerton is considered one of the most important 1990s emo albums.