well, I was a kid in the late 80's mid 90's sorta part of the Generation X crowd if you will, and in high school I hung out with the "grunge" crowd. Somewhat of a cross between goth and rock style. We called ourselves "Grungies". People get labeled because they try so hard to identify themselves with something. You see someone doing something, listening to something, dressing a certain way, and if you identify, you copy, or create a spin off. People are "emotional" creatures and need to feel like their identity in the planet means something, and feel the need to cling to things that are like them. It's in our nature to want to be accepted and liked and be part of the "cool" thing. I personally think anything emo sux no matter what the "true" definition is. The original music sucked, the new music sux, the new emo kids suck even more. Emo kids are like worse than the kids who are label watchers. Emo kids say that nobody understands them, but they go out of their way to dress ridiculously and whine about their teen angst, and wonder why ppl want to beat the crap out of them. Most emo kids wear every peace of article of clothing imagineable and put one of each kind in an outfit.... They get up in the morning and decide that their wardrobe is some sort of "whatever goes" extra small, half fruity colored half goth sort of outfit, and yeah people are like wtf we don't understand why your parents didn't teach you how to dress when you were a kid. For crying out loud converse shoes don't go with skinny jeans, purple socks, with zebra stripped shirt, and orange gloves, with a pink tu tu, with a plaid scarf, with a hobo bag with glitter on it.... c'mon ppl... that's not a "style" that's saying I don't care what I'm gonna wear, but then I'm gonna go home and cry when you make fun of me.... Emo kids are a very saturated kind of style, and by that I mean you can definitely point one out because any emo is an emo to the fullest. There's no grey area emos. Kids who aren't emo who wear 98-100% black are goth. Goth people should not be associated with cutting because cutting comes about from emotional unstable feelings. Goth people are just generally dark in nature. cutting is not dark.

Also, as much as people want to think they're unique... they're not. We all have our qualities, but we are not that unique from each other seeing as how many many individuals can fall into catagorys of people, such as zodiac signs, and clothing styles. You can try as hard you want to be an individual, but sooner or later there's another you walking down the street trying just as hard to look "different", and when you got 1,000 whiny kids trying to look "different" they all look the "same".

Hun
Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance are NOT emo music.
Just Clarifying ^.^