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"Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness).
Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music.
Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta.
Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral
EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE
NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE
You guys don't know what real emo is
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Cranky Old Witch
Side note - I'm too old and apathetic to tell anyone what is or is not 'real emo'. But I'll say this ...
Ike Turner disavowed that his 1951 classic "Rocket 88" is a rock and roll song.
Black Sabbath's Bill Ward and Motörhead's Lemmie both deny that their music is "heavy metal".
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson rejected being called 'progressive rock' after his album "Aqualung" and went on to write an entire parody album about it "Thick as a Brick".
And, of course, My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way denies the band's classification as "emo".
This is a copypasta but everything you said is correct regardless
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