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[Freelancer]

I found this on another Forum
ENjoy the read of a fella that found it on Wiki methinks

Third wave (2000-present)

At the end of the 1990s, the underground emo scene had almost entirely disappeared. However, the term emo was still being bandied about in mainstream media, almost always attached to the few remaining 90s emo acts, including Jimmy Eat World.

However, towards the end of the 1990s, Jimmy Eat World had begun to shift in a more mainstream direction. Where Jimmy Eat World had played emocore-style music early in their career, by the time of the release of their 2001 album Bleed American, the band had downplayed its emo influences, releasing more pop-oriented singles such as "The Middle" and "Sweetness". As the public had become aware of the word emo and knew that Jimmy Eat World was associated with it, the band continued to be referred to as an "emo" band, despite their objections. Newer bands that sounded like Jimmy Eat World (and, in some cases, like the more melodic emo bands of the late 90s) were soon included in the genre.[8]

2003 saw the success of Chris Carrabba, the former singer of emo band Further Seems Forever, and his project Dashboard Confessional. Despite musically being more aligned to the singer songwriter school, Carraba found himself part of the emerging "popular" emo scene. Carrabba's music featured lyrics founded in deep diary-like outpourings of emotion. While certainly emotional, the new "emo" had a far greater appeal amongst adolescents than its earlier incarnations. [9]

With Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World's success, major labels began seeking out similar sounding bands. Just as many bands of the early-to-mid 1990s were unwillingly lumped under the umbrella of "grunge", some record labels wanted to be able to market a new sound under the word emo.

At the same time, use of the term "emo" expanded beyond the musical genre, which added to the confusion surrounding the term. The word "emo" became associated with open displays of strong emotion. Common fashion styles and attitudes that were becoming idiomatic of fans of similar "emo" bands also began to be referred to as "emo". As a result, bands that were loosely associated with "emo" trends or simply demonstrated emotion began to be referred to as emo.[10]

In an even more expanded way than in the 90s, emo has come to encompass an extremely wide variety of bands, many of whom have very little in common. The term has become so broad that it has become nearly impossible to describe what exactly qualifies as "emo".

Appropriately or not, emo has been used to describe such bands as AFI, Alexisonfire, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Senses Fail, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story of the Year, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, The Used, and Underoath.[11] The classification of bands as "emo" is often controversial. Fans of several of the listed bands have recoiled at the use of the "emo" tag, and have gone to great lengths to explain why they don't qualify as "emo". In many cases, the term has simply been attached to them because of musical similarities, a common fashion sense, or because of the band's popularity within the "emo" scene, not because the band adheres to emo as a music genre.

As a result of the continuing shift of "emo" over the years, a serious schism has emerged between those who relate to particular eras of "emo". Those who were closely attached to the hardcore origins recoil when another type of music is called "emo". Many involved in the independent nature of both 80s and 90s emo are upset at the perceived hijacking of the word emo to sell a new generation of major label music. Regardless, popular culture appears to have embraced the terms of "emo" far beyond its original intentions.

In a strange twist, screamo, a sub-genre of the new emo, has found greater popularity in recent years through bands such as Thrice and Glassjaw.[12] The term screamo, however, was used to describe an entirely different genre in the early 1990s, and the new screamo bands more resemble the emo of the early 1990s. Complicating matters further is that several small scenes devoted to original screamo still exist in the underground. However, the new use of "screamo" demonstrates how the shift in terms connected to "emo" has made the varying genres difficult to categorize.

The difficulty in defining "emo" as a genre may have started at the very beginning. In a 2003 interview by Mark Prindle,[13] Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and Rites of Spring was asked how he felt about "being the creator of the emo genre". He responded: "I don't recognize that attribution. I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me."

I just wanted so ppl will Have a look see

[Xmeagol]

yeap, Roots:

Punk >
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Goth >
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> Emo


EDIT: Just read carefuly the Third Wave thing, confirms my post

[Freelancer]

YOu are such an annoyance really >_>

And Beny Clamed that Grunge are DIFFERENT from emo >_> heh,Its just a label for dumb people to make some Fieling FOr themselves,to make thayr life easyer

[Killa/PPV]

The text is too long.I dont read it.

[Xmeagol]

why? what did i say? its true :p

[Freelancer]

[65 Impala SS]

ActuallY

PUNK - HARDCORE - ORANGE COUNTY - Brittany Spears - EMO.

[Osiris_TSGK]

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

What? You guys talking about ELO?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTjy_LW8DGM

[Osiris_TSGK]

[65 Impala SS]

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

Ahhhhhhh Goth. It once meant this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ZX4ShdfHc

[Xmeagol]

yeah, Emo came from goth

[Controllerboy_TSGK]

[Xmeagol]

[Freelancer]

*transilvanian Accent* Breen wantes Toh suck-eh...*
*Normal* and he does
Emo came from Between Grunge and Punk wanabies as Cboy says Cuz GOTH is ..WAY different...

[StonedCabbage]

this topic is soooooo emo

[65 Impala SS]

Goth: I think of Christian Death, Bauhaus, Fields of Nephilim, Switchblade Symphony, Blue Tape for a..., Sisters of Mercy...

There are no screechy EMO vocals, no cranked up crappy guitar stabs,
no uptempo bass kicks, no out of control cymbal playing...

The look, that may be a different story, some carrying on the Cure look.

The music, more California than Germany or European like Goth.

Goth also has some good music within the genre, unlike Emo.
Just look at My Chemical Romance--- Horrible!

[PureSlut_TSGK]

Rublis like My Chemical Romance..he told me...when he was crying one day when I whooped his ass in Server I

[Rublis]

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

[65 Impala SS]

Didn't realize that! The Mission?!?! Never heard of them.

Why am i in this thread!?!?
I don't like Goth OR Emo or punk, or hardcore.
And where does Husker Du fit in all this?
And The Pixies?!?

Is The Mars Volta EMO?
I mean, they suck, but are they EMO.
I can't keep up with younglings.

Goth is SO 80s.
Isn't Bela Lugosi dead?

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

Haven't a clue - probably to do with a little info is a dangerous thing. I'd rather watch ponr only the sister in law is staying over and I dont want to be caught.

[65 Impala SS]

Your sister in Law?!?!? Gross!

[Xmeagol]

[Zog Ecosse]

Diet wrote ~

[The Borg_TSGK]

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

5 minutes after posting this I was snoring in bed in a drunken stupor.

[65 Impala SS]

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

By this I meant that.