This letter made my effing day. <3

[Floppeh]

"Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."
I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."
Emo really is..
In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.
Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well s**t, at least it's close.
Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, ********, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."
Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.

Hope that helps.Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the "horrible pop rock" genre, not the emo genre.
Rites of Spring is emo.  

[SARSSS]

Oh, it has made my day as well. : 333.

 

[finding emotive]

Why would this make peoples day anyway? You should already know this.  

[`Bebe`]

Im thinking your right to say that it made your day. It Made mine too. heart  

[phish cakes = luff]

but i like taking back sunday, i already knew all this stuff, it doesnt make me happy to hear someone annotate it to me. but i also like the song, "rites of spring" i think its brutal and evil, and beautiful all at the same time. cant the two things just live together in peace?  

[finding emotive]

evil.purple.broccoli

but i like taking back sunday, i already knew all this stuff, it doesnt make me happy to hear someone annotate it to me. but i also like the song, "rites of spring" i think its brutal and evil, and beautiful all at the same time. cant the two things just live together in peace?

The song Rites of Spring, do you mean band or the song by The Bravery?  

[.Second Best.]

yes this is true but...the people that say this don't understand that emo is going into a new generation, just like other music and fashions for exampl look at run dmc they are hip-hop/rap now look at 50cent he is completely differnt i feel werid for using rapper to say that but thats a good example.  

[im-a-scientist!!!]

i don't think you understand that music is EVOLVING. if music stayed the same, we'd still be listening to people who made music like beethoven. and in a few years, it's probably gonna evolve into a new kind of music, and there's gonna be new people on here whining about it.  

[Ciarda Fay]

Yeah.. that whole thing just confused the crap out of me... Why are you ranting on about this s**t when everyone knows Emo didn't come form "emotional" and as much as I like music, I could careless about artist who are all probably dead, unless of coursee there music is good heart But other then that this post of yours was bogus. No offence of course 4laugh  

[finding emotive]

Miss. Sex kitten

Yeah.. that whole thing just confused the crap out of me... Why are you ranting on about this s**t when everyone knows Emo didn't come form "emotional" and as much as I like music, I could careless about artist who are all probably dead, unless of coursee there music is good heart But other then that this post of yours was bogus. No offence of course 4laugh

So many people don't know that, and what you said is a terrible lack of appreciation for music artists.  

[Ciarda Fay]

finding emotive

Miss. Sex kitten

Yeah.. that whole thing just confused the crap out of me... Why are you ranting on about this s**t when everyone knows Emo didn't come form "emotional" and as much as I like music, I could careless about artist who are all probably dead, unless of coursee there music is good heart But other then that this post of yours was bogus. No offence of course 4laugh

So many people don't know that, and what you said is a terrible lack of appreciation for music artists.

Oh. Well.  

[finding emotive]

Miss. Sex kitten

finding emotive

Miss. Sex kitten

Yeah.. that whole thing just confused the crap out of me... Why are you ranting on about this s**t when everyone knows Emo didn't come form "emotional" and as much as I like music, I could careless about artist who are all probably dead, unless of coursee there music is good heart But other then that this post of yours was bogus. No offence of course 4laugh

So many people don't know that, and what you said is a terrible lack of appreciation for music artists.

Oh. Well.

Please, at least try to avoid such ignorance.  

[Gir_is_the_Master]

You got that off of urban dictionary.  

[knife_blood_romance]

Music does evolve you know stare  

[knife_blood_romance]

but, i do agree with what you first said. smile