How do you tell if a band is emo?

Hopefully the guy who keeps posting whether band X is emo is reading this..

If they suck, they emo.

if it was made between 2002 and now its emo.

there hasn't been any emo bands since the 90's

My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and any of those bands are not emo.

Emo is as dead as Electroclash.

true

Emo is teh suck

>>5
WTF is electroclash? lol

>>3

second

Emo isn't even a real genre of music anymore. Nowadays "emo" is just a nametag with a uniform that sexually confused boys and insecure girls follow in order to mask their imperfections and at the same time wallow in self pity, whilst looking artsy and angsty. On top of that, they can feel less pathetic if they're part of something that is a cultural fad in our country.

Let me tell you something that is not only completely badass, but also uncommon in American teenage culture: Pirates. No, fuck ninjas. Don't say ninja's. They blow. Fuck them and their stupid little metal stars and their sneaky little ways. My pirate grandfather will stomp their tiny little ninja skulls back to the Shaolin Temple. Fuck you if you want to be a ninja. Ninja's suck dick.

"Emo isn't even a real genre of music anymore. Nowadays "emo" is just a nametag with a uniform that sexually confused boys and insecure girls follow in order to mask their imperfections and at the same time wallow in self pity, whilst looking artsy and angsty. On top of that, they can feel less pathetic if they're part of something that is a cultural fad in our country."

Exactly. And the bands they listen to are "emo" by default. Too bad for Joy Division, who become gayer by the hour.

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>>11
Agreed.

That goes for Indie music, too. Seriously, Indie USED to bean independent... but now they're pretty much all the same. Weird for the sake of weird?

>>10
Tell you what, I'll meet you halfway-

Samurai.

>>10

As a proud pirate, I must give you kudos. *kudos give*

if it was made between 1980 and now its emo.

If it isn't metal, its emo.

>>1

You can go die in a car fire.

if they bitch about life and have shitty music they are emo. sheesh.

I'm feeling really keen, for some of that good ol' green

Marijuana MUST be legalized.