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Emo vs Screamo - What's the difference?

emo | screamo |

As nouns the difference between emo and screamo

is that emo is a particular style of hardcore punk rock while screamo is a genre of aggressive lo-fi guitar driven music with predominantly screaming vocals, while preserving structural aspects of the emocore/hardcore emo genres of the early 1990's.

As an adjective emo

is emotional; sensitive.

As a proper noun Emo

is a village in Ireland.

emo

English

(wikipedia emo)

Noun

  • A particular style of hardcore punk rock
  • An individual or group of people associated with that subculture and musical style.
  • Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional
  • An individual or group of people associated with a fashion or stereotype of that style of rock.
  • A young person who is considered to be over-emotional or stereotypically emo.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (often, pejorative) Emotional; sensitive.
  • (informal, often, pejorative) Depressed.
  • * 2008 , Vanity Fair (issue 578)
    • Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.
  • Associated with youth subcultures embodying emotional sensitivity.
  • * 2007 , James A. Reinking, Robert Von Der Osten, Strategies for successful writing
    • The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo .
  • * 2012 , Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
    • Trevor looks kind of emo , rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

    Derived terms

    * emotard

    Anagrams

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    screamo

    English

    (wikipedia screamo)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (music) A genre of aggressive lo-fi guitar driven music with predominantly screaming vocals, while preserving structural aspects of the emocore/hardcore emo genres of the early 1990's.
  • (music) A genre of guitar driven music sometimes referred to as posthardcore, combining late 1990's emo indie rock with interludes of screaming vocals, often accompanied by hardcore or metalcore guitar riffs.
  • (music) Any punk rock inspired music that involves screaming vocals, typically referring to the genres described above as well as certain subgenres of hardcore punk.

    • Usage notes

    Due to the similarities of the different usages of the word screamo , the term is the cause of much confusion and controversy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Screamo].