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what is the difference between goth's and emo's?

well one things for sure... music taste is different... and the style ish a lil different.... hmmm ninja idk but some goths hate emos idk why

A goth is a fan of Goth Rock, as in bands like Bauhuas, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Christian Death, ex.

Emo is more about well first wave more like Rites of Spring, Gray Matter and so on. Then the 90's wave came in with stuff like Benton Falls, American Football and Cross my Heart.

some people catagorize emo as a form of goth, but the main diffrence is emo focuses more on showing dark and sad emotions, and goth is mainly a style.

hm. people say the style is different, but some emos wear goth and vice versa. many of the stereotypes for both can be interchangeable, so, who actually knows? it's all stereotypes.

Yeah totally, totally.
Cool; cool story brah.
Totally.

To be fair Moonlight Agony did his usual well informed explanation.

The music:
It's basically punk rock, except the lyrics are about emotional things rather than being a rebel. Emo is a kind of rock music which describes several independent types of music with common similar roots. Mid-tempo hardcore punk, pioneered around roughly '85 by the D.C. band Rites of Spring. It's in no relation to the pseudo-emocore/mall punk of today. Google REVOLUTION SUMMER/MID-WEST EMO for more information on the legitimate genre.

The People:
It is a label people give themselves for being apathetic and emotional to an extreme (usually miserable), but wallowing in it and not wanting it to change. They tend to feel they are misunderstood and that life is not fair to them in specific. It is in fashion with some of the group to cut themselves and wear heavy eye make-up. The hair cuts tend to have awkward sharp angles and are often glossed. Many of the guys wear very tight jeans, often women's. The girls tend to lean more towards late 70's to early 80's fashion.

Goth means that you feel inferior and not understood they hear a
lot of hard eged music and wear black some times with peircings


Goth is short for gothic, the gothic culture forms around gothic rock and people just tend to dress dark as what the music is intended to be.

Emo is short for Emo-tional
people who would rather read a book and are more creative rather than to go out partying and socializing

though there are stereotypes saying that they cut i do have several "goth and Emo" friends and they are friendly fun and never a dull moment and and they despise the thought of self harm.

though there are several idiots who are actually sad enough to follow the stereotype because they think its "cool"

personally i cant stand these fangled stereo types, you are who you are you cant catagorize yourself because were all unique not one person is the same.