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[GooeyToast]

MTV pounded Helena into my brain with a sledgehammer.

MCR is not great, and they are overrated and way overplayed, but i must admit Helena is a decent song. It sucks too because almost every band you dislike seems to have 1 song you cant stop repeating. :P

[Buster Sword Strike]

Easy, listen to older music. I can't stand punk, rap, or any of that nu metal. It's all crap imo. It used to take skill to capture a large audience, but now all you have to do is play a pattern for a short amount of time. No lightning solos there. I'm only 14 by the way so don't asume I'm some geezer who doesn't want to go through the times

[eestlinc]

Interpol is real emo music.

[Not At All Reno]

you can only blame yourself for not turning the dial/changing the channel/doing something with yourself

[I'm my own MILF]

Originally Posted by Lindy

None of the music people claim that is "emo", is anywhere near "emo", and those that are "emo", most people don't listen to, even though it's far too awkward a genre to define or usually even really exist.

People associate emo with whining, and generally angsty stupid teenage rubbish, and a lot of people call themselves "emo" by being angsty stupid (and very much middle-class) teens. In reality, they're just idiots listening to mostly idiotic music like Linkin Park, desperately grasping to their claim it's "emo" and attempting to define their lives by the overtly angst-ridden songs or albums.

MCR are pop alt-rock anyway.

Much as I'd love for Emo to always mean Antioch Arrow and Christie Front Drive, the simple fact of the matter is that definitions change. Just like punk once meant The Clash and The Sex Pistols, but now means NOFX and The Offspring, so Emo now means something other than what it meant back in the mid-80s. Besides which, the lines between Emo, Indie, Punk, and the like can be very easily blurred.

[Lindy]

That would be ok, if the so-called emo music of late actually covered EMOTIONS, but it doesn't, it's just angst and whine and no substance.

I refuse to ever accept that defined as emo.

[Excelsior]

Actually, I used to be a big emo-hater too. But not only did I discover that TRUE emo people are cool (and dont want to cut themselves) but actual TRUE emo music is also good. My Chemical Romance, is NOT EMO music. As Lindy said, it is pop alt. rock or whatever.

[I'm my own MILF]

Originally Posted by Lindy

That would be ok, if the so-called emo music of late actually covered EMOTIONS, but it doesn't, it's just angst and whine and no substance.

I refuse to ever accept that defined as emo.

But all music is emotional.

No, well, in seriousness; mostly I agree with you entirely on this, the vast majority is vapid and jejune. Sometimes though you get good tracks or even good artists (Funeral for a Friend, for example.). At any rate, my point is that a few of us crotcherty old folks who know the truth simply can't override the prevailing ideas of what things are, especially when in something as ambiguous as this, where there really only is popular opinion of how things should be defined.

I'm sure we'd all be a LOT happier about that if it was decided by people who knew something about the genres they're talking about, of course.