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Unread 29 Mar 2006, 05:24   #139
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Re: Greatest ever 'Emo' song

http://www.fourfa.com/ provides a decent rundown of the history of Emo.

Recently the meaning of the word has been diluted somewhat from a small, obscure genre of music started in the 80's as an offspring of hardcore, to pretty much whatever you want it to mean.

My theory is that some independant American rock bands that made it big in the late 90's identified themselves as emo (*cough* Jimmy Eat World *cough*). Then a sleuth of other, similar bands started identifying as such, thus the term came into more common use. Then, through a misunderstanding of the history of the genre, internet memes, and the rise of Myspace and generally of girly men, pretty much made the word what it is today.
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