heres what i think:
These days Emo is a term that is now used more to describe a person (how they act,speak,think) and to describe a fashion (skin tight jeans, skate shoes, shirts that are either to tight for them or say some slogan on them and long black greasy hairstyle with most noticibly "the fringe")
Since most bands dress/act in the same manor and sing in a noticibly nasal tone, they are being labelled as Emo, which is now used as marketing tools too attract the majority of mainstreem youths into buying their albums, because they think they have their own type of music to asociate themselves with.
Unfortunatly their are really depressed people who also dress this way but are just teased for being Emo because of how they act and how there are so many other people dressing/acting the same way who arnt depressed, so if one depressed person decides to take their life, everybody else who dresses/acts the same way has to "suffer" the consequences because of it.
MCR are slowly moving from the "post-hardcore"/emo fase into the mainstreem pop-ish/"punk" fase, IMO, and they are more frequently being heard on the radio, played on the TV etc etc and just because the band has influences, does not mean it is going to sound like them
for example
the members of Metallica say their influences are Hendrix, Rush etc and they sound next to nothing like them
to me MCR sound nothing like Queen, but thats just my personal opinion
greenday used to be outright punk (Dookie etc), until they decided they needed cash and went off and made a mainstream record (american idiot)
Slipknot are/were Nu Metal(lack of solos,"rap" style of singing), but they are slowly becoming more of a heavy metal influenced band
but thats just what i think
These days Emo is a term that is now used more to describe a person (how they act,speak,think) and to describe a fashion (skin tight jeans, skate shoes, shirts that are either to tight for them or say some slogan on them and long black greasy hairstyle with most noticibly "the fringe")
Since most bands dress/act in the same manor and sing in a noticibly nasal tone, they are being labelled as Emo, which is now used as marketing tools too attract the majority of mainstreem youths into buying their albums, because they think they have their own type of music to asociate themselves with.
Unfortunatly their are really depressed people who also dress this way but are just teased for being Emo because of how they act and how there are so many other people dressing/acting the same way who arnt depressed, so if one depressed person decides to take their life, everybody else who dresses/acts the same way has to "suffer" the consequences because of it.
MCR are slowly moving from the "post-hardcore"/emo fase into the mainstreem pop-ish/"punk" fase, IMO, and they are more frequently being heard on the radio, played on the TV etc etc and just because the band has influences, does not mean it is going to sound like them
for example
the members of Metallica say their influences are Hendrix, Rush etc and they sound next to nothing like them
to me MCR sound nothing like Queen, but thats just my personal opinion
greenday used to be outright punk (Dookie etc), until they decided they needed cash and went off and made a mainstream record (american idiot)
Slipknot are/were Nu Metal(lack of solos,"rap" style of singing), but they are slowly becoming more of a heavy metal influenced band
but thats just what i think