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brettman98 wrote:

sanddude wrote:

brettman98 wrote:

The All-American Rejects are an emo band and they're my favorite band. Their music is great and I'm not a very negative person anyway. I would delve into your emo-musicology more...

All American Rejects is far from emo. They are a pop-rock band.

As I said, emo stands for "emotive hardcore". AAR is not hardcore (and if you really think that, you need to get your hearing checked), therefore not emo.

Under wikipedia iTunes and everything else, AAR is considered alternative rock, power pop, and emo. Dont ask me, ask them.

Many music journalists lump them in with emo, therefore they include emo in the genres for Wikipedia. Most music journalists abide by the ignorant modern definition of emo, instead of emo by what it actually means. They are emo by the ignorant modern definition, but they are not... I'll say "true emo". They are alternative and power pop. Emo is really hardcore. Therefore if a band is truly emo, Wikipedia will (in most cases, not all) also list "hardcore punk" or "post-hardcore".

soupoftomato wrote:

Dude, society chooses what a word means.

Emo now happens to mean someone that self-maims and is all depressed in most people's opinion. Emo is also a style of music because, there can be different uses for a word.

The a-word, donkey or curse word? I saw some Planet Life thing that used it many times because they were talking about that animal, but it's a taboo when used in a certain way.

Actually, the meaning for the style of music ended up being blurred too.

When it started it was a branch of hardcore punk. Now it's more alternative/pop-punk influenced.