ok ive asked some people if my chem is emo. some say "yea" some say "no"

so are they? or not?

they MAY have been considered emo back in the day, but they sure aren't now. atleast that's what i think...

heh, their older albums ARE better

emoluvachick wrote: heh, their older albums ARE better

agreed! the first two i could listen all the way through w/o skipping anything...their newest i can't do that. actually, i think there are songs i haven't even fully listened to yet. o.O

haha, thats with me except with other bands

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duhh .. is mcr emo ?? i think not .. bcuz they are just posers .. just like what The Used tagged them .. they are posers from N.J. .. hahaha .. they are just the same ..

MCR ARE NOT EMO THEY SAID IT ON LIVE TV THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THEY STARTED THE BAND BUT NOT NO MORE LOOK ON YOUTUBE IF U DONT BELIVE ME

MCR is whiney pop-punk; always has been, and most likely always will be. They are not even close to being emo. MTV has never played punk, emo or skrams music, and never will, purely because it isn't mainstream.

Listen to bands such as Moss Icon, Comadre, La Quiete, Toru Okada and compare them with the bands most of you think are emo; I'm sure you'll notice quite the difference.

MCR IS NOT EMO. it is just sterotyped emo by people who do not know the differnce.

I find it weird how gothic they dress on stage and how their music doesn't match. They're music is more rock then anything. Just plain rock, no emo crap.

Squire wrote: MCR is whiney pop-punk

That "whiney" really wasn't necessary...

I don't get the problem? Do they have to dress in a certain way in correlation to the music they're making? What the fuck does it matter?
Let people call them emo - there will always be ignorants.
It's about the music. Whether you like it or not. That's all that matters. Whether they are played on MTV, whether they dress black and wear eyeliner, whether others also listen to it or not, whether people call them emo - you shouldn't care.

And btw, I think there's already a topic like this.

L wrote:

Squire wrote: MCR is whiney pop-punk

That "whiney" really wasn't necessary...

Yeah, it was.

L wrote: And btw, I think there's already a topic like this.

There's an MCR topic for every page in the bands & music section. People need to use the handy dandy notebook search feature.

I dislike MCR. They're music isn't my style, and I hate how some MCR fans think they're better than others because they like their earlier albums rather than their later ones. They all sound the same to me, so I can't really give my two cents on that.

I don't believe that they're emo, nor do I really care.

Bug wrote: and I hate how some MCR fans think they're better than others because they like their earlier albums rather than their later ones.

I noticed that, too.
I guess it's the "I like them before they became famous - and you people who like the new stuff are only posers" attitude. Happens a lot. With all kinds of things/trends.
And don't blame the band for the fans.

L: Most pop-punk and pop-rock songs consist of 'whiney teenage angst' filled lyrics.

I am not saying nobody can like them, I just wan't people to label them correctly. Emo is a genre that I like, and I think it's a real shame how much it has been bastardised by MTV, thanks to bands like Jimmy Eat World. Today, the majority think bands such as Hawthorne Heights with their sappy 'cut mah wrist whine whine whine baaaw'-lyris are emo, since to them, emo equals emotional.

Emo stands for emotive charged hardcore punk, and it has nothing to do with depression, self-mutilation or any of that. I really dislike the people who push forward the idea of emo being a subculture, because it is clear they know nothing, and most of them are not willing to learn. As you might have noticed, ignorance is a quality I despise.