I'm not really sure what it is. I had just assumed it was a kind of taboo fashion that followed bands such as MCR, but a couple of days ago I was chatting up some bird and somehow Nirvana came into the conversation, she laughed and off-handedly said something about it being emo, I asked her why and she said that Kurt Cobain killed himself and their music was sad, but didn't really elaborate because frankly I think she wanted a shag more than a debate. Anywho, does this mean that any music containing emotional content of any kind can be classed as emo? Is guitar a suicidal instrument? Does long hair make you more or less like to cut your wrists? This is a thread dedicated to answering those questions, and posing other possibly more ridiculous ones.