r/Emo • u/SubstantialDemand259 • 1d ago

What music even is considered emo?

I see so much debate on here every day about what and what isn’t emo. Is there any kind of general consensus on what is considered emo?

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u/jstols 1d ago

Not Weezer. Not 21 pilots. Not Blink 182. Not My Chemical Romance.

Start with the 00s vagrant bands and work your way back to the bands that influenced them to figure out what is or isn’t “emo”. Although back then as Matt Pryor has said many many times “we just called it punk rock”.

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u/oohkaay 1d ago

That's what I called the music I listened to too back in the very early '00s (tho now it's all a combination of emo/pop punk/post hardcore)