My Chemical Romance - Emo or Not?

[JoeyK.]

I haven't really listened to them enough to make a judgment on what they are, I just really can't stand the band. I don't think I've ever heard a more annoying voice.

[YoManGo!]

By todays standards, yes they are.

The definition of a genre can be changed if used enough.

Now you can be pedantic and pull the 'but what about post-hardcore emo from the 80's/98's' but it's happened and people're gonna have to put up with it.

Every commercial magazine or radio station also uses the term 'emo' to blanket pop-rock bands iconised by todays youth. There's nothing whining about what the past was like can do about it.

that's true, but bands playing the initial emo still exist today. the thing is every genre has a different face in the mainstream - if people believed what bands were classified as everyone would go round calling good charlotte punk and nickelback metal. oh wait, nevermind...

[mangle]

I dont particulay believe they are emo. They have gone mainstream so I
im not their biggest fan anymore.

[Ezzie.]

They're not emo, pop/rock kinda, there new song isn't half bad.. a hell of alot less depressing than their predessors

[hadouken!]

I think theyre a damn insult to music itself, MCR sounds like porrn for blind people for god sake. theres nothing to it, and if you dare say they arent emo, il laugh in your face.

OF course they deny being emo, reveryone does, but they still are.

AND IF ANYONE EVEN BEGINS TO CLASS THEM AS PUNK, YOU CAN SAY THAT TO ME.

[Misawa]

Well "emo" nowadays is a fashion statement, and for people who want attention for their faux emotions.

Emo is actually originally emocore, and it's to do with a movement of punk rock bands from the 1980s, who gave more emotional and dedicated performances due to their open passion for music, breaking the standard form of concert performing.

Anyway, emo is dead. This recent revival is nothing more than teen pop culture and fashion statements, which no one has previously worn. It isn't genuine emo, it's a fraud for attention.