emo comes from the term emotional hardcore, a style of music from the 80s belonging to punk rock characterized by melodic musicality. It originates from the English word emotion or emotional(emotion or emotional).
emo it's also like a alternative culture, a lifestyle, which spread throughout Brazil and the world. Many young people identify with the emo ideology, but what calls the most attention is the way that followers of this lifestyle dress.
The clothes of the emos are usually black, and they can even use one piece or another of light color, black boots to the knees, black eyeliner, black lipstick, hair well-dyed black and long bangs falling on the face, and all kinds of tattoos and piercings for the eyes, mouth, tongue, often black nail polish, including for the boys. Another distinguishing feature of the emos is the hair, which you can often see different cuts and colors from most.
Emos, like other alternative groups, are also targets of prejudice from older people. and conservative, because society imposes parameters to be followed, and when someone breaks this rule, it is not considered normal.
Usually emos have a musical preference for the pop punk genre, and they tend to listen to songs that sound slower and more melodic or with a heavier sound. Some examples of favorite bands are: Simple Plan, NXZero, Good Charlotte, etc. The songs enjoyed by emos usually have expressive and confessional lyrics.