Yeah. But some of them then try to claim they're a genre that they're not even close to, like MCR claiming they're horror punk.
i dont know...a lot of stuff on Three cheers for sweet revenge remind me of Horror things i love listening to the ghost of you in the fall time
They didn't say horror punk. They said horror core. But since that apparently is for rap, we're drawing similarities to horror punk.
The fact that if you ask 9/10 people what genre MCR is, they will say emo. Because the modern usage of emo is basically MCR. They are, or were, the definitive band.
So because the majority of people agree on it, that means it's true? I don't see a valid explanation for why MCR was so emo before The Black Parade.
Hence why I said that it's the modern usage of the word, it's just simply what the word is used to desrcribe in this day and age.
Most labels are a load of crap, it's all just music to me. Nowadays, 'emo' is just used either as a purely derogatory term, or by alot of people just to describe any sort of rock music with lyrics dealing with any kind of sadness or anger....or almost any emotion at all. For God's sake, I've heard people call Ascendancy-era Trivium 'emo' .
Gerard Way, in a Blender article that the song was written as their resignation from "the scene". It was their way of saying 'okay we're sick of being associated with emo music, so this is our way of letting you know we are distancing ourselves from that genre.". So even though the album itself had a concept and a plot to it, that song served as a different purpose.
It isn't so much that MCR was emo as emo was MCR. The media and such more or less redefined emo to revolve around MCR, and a couple other bands at the time.
You win for the best argument in this thread. Have a cookie :] A friend of mine had this argument about Thrice being called screamo. Which they're not. They're rock. Or when NIN was called Industrial. Not really. They came out after the industrial wave came and went, and Pretty Hate Machine was really shitty techno pop . No matter what genre a band truly may be, society doesn't care, because they're making money off of it.
I agree, which is why I almost always assume that anyone who is using the word "emo" doesn't know half a shit about what they're talking about.
Oh, okay. I always thought that the song was talking about the main characters funeral. Maybe it has a double meaning?