What bands would y'all consider to be emo?
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Tom Scola - Apr 18, 2008 8:59:36 am PDT #7795 of 10003
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tommyrot - Apr 18, 2008 9:04:24 am PDT #7796 of 10003
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Also, are there any bands that consider themselves to be emo?
Atropa - Apr 18, 2008 9:05:01 am PDT #7797 of 10003
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What bands would y'all consider to be emo?
Emo in the actual way that subculture defines it, or emo in the way that popular news media defines it? Two verrrry different things.
I would not consider MCR emo (and they don't consider themselves emo), and I can't really think of any of the FBR bands that fall under that label, either.
Amy - Apr 18, 2008 9:06:57 am PDT #7798 of 10003
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I always thought emo, the way media described it years ago, was bands like Dashboard Confessional. But I could be way wrong.
Ailleann - Apr 18, 2008 9:07:25 am PDT #7799 of 10003
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Popular news media seems to slap the term "emo" on a lot of bands that are listened to by high school students, regardless of their actual musical content. Panic's first album was called "emo," though it was much more techno-inspired, and Fall Out Boy is far closer to punk than "emo."
Atropa - Apr 18, 2008 9:10:26 am PDT #7800 of 10003
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Popular news media seems to slap the term "emo" on a lot of bands that are listened to by high school students, regardless of their actual musical content.
Yes, this. "emo" has apparently become shorthand for "Those kids today, with their funny hair and their loud music!"
Ailleann - Apr 18, 2008 9:15:14 am PDT #7801 of 10003
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And the media's already started to use terms like "post-emo," which when you can't even clearly list the bands that are in a genre, I don't know how you can say that that genre is now over.
Trudy Booth - Apr 18, 2008 9:38:34 am PDT #7802 of 10003
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My understanding is that -- call it "genuine emo" or "original emo"? -- was a subdivision of punk. The main reason they were an offshoot was that their lyrical content more than musical style.
What's now called emo is probably more indie pop, with an emphasis on love songs and possibly being more suitable for slow dancing than most of what's out there these days.
smonster - Apr 18, 2008 9:49:03 am PDT #7804 of 10003
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Death Cab for Cutie was frequently labeled emo, although I would sooner label them lyrically-intelligent indie pop.
Generally, when people say emo, what they mean is "whiny music that sucks." I tend to associate that term, outside of media labeling, with young men (primarily) who want to disparage others' choices in music and emotional sensitivity in general. Hence the fact that it is applied to bands as divergent as MCR and DCFC.
I also associate it with homophobia and misogyny, due to the fact that, by aforementioned macho youth, the word "emo" is frequently coupled with "pussy" or "fag."
See Projekt Revolution and that whole mess.