EMO BOYZ & GIRLZ

"Emo" isn't short for "Emotional." "Emo" doesn't mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard booth, despite what MTV has lead you to believe the previous couple of years. "Emo" isn't sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists United Nations agency sing like very little ladies regarding their unsuccessful relationships. "Emo" isn't the employment of diluted, unimportant metaphors and similes like "My arms area unit like pinecones," and most undoubtedly isn't the rampant use of words like "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I simply thought i would clear that up in any case of those "definitions" within which I even have encountered an out of this world quantity of individuals United Nations agency attempt to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as reality, and area unit slowly infecting others with their high-horse, pious bullshit. as a result of honestly, together with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the $64000 definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement within the hardcore genre that came to be referred to as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou youngsters, United Nations agency swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, truly coined the term "Emo" as one thing of a squelcher for the children United Nations agency extremely liked  Rites Of Spring, period and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. that is right, "Emo" was once not one thing youngsters referred to as themselves. the sector exploded outward from there - Level-Plane Records has forever been the foremost celebrated Emo label....