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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nFEATURED MUSIC:\n\nREC \u2013 \u201cBreak You\u201d (from Parts and Labour)\n\nREC \u2013 \u201cSuddenly\u201d (from Synergy for the Weird)\n\nNICK \u2013 \u201cYour Sweetness\u201d (from Your EP)\n\nSee that link right above this line? It makes me feel \u2026 whatever. Basically, I get all \u201cemo\u201d whenever someone tries to define what \u201cemo\u201d is and which bands do or don\u2019t qualify. Not unexpected, I\u2019m sure, since you know well I\u2019ve got issues with \u201cgenres\u201d.\n\nAs with any genre, one band you\u2019re sure belongs is associated with another band that\u2019s a little different. That band is close to another band etc. etc. until five bands down the line you\u2019ve made it from emo to pop punk to Olivia Rodrigo, or emo to goth punk to The Cure. That said, I\u2019m going to dive headfirst into this swirl of emo shite & hopefully resurface with some actual conclusions.\n\nSo what\u2019s up with all the labels in this week\u2019s title? First, it\u2019s a perfect illustration of the mess we get in with this subject. It\u2019s also an abridged history of where emo came from, when it popped (pun intended), and where it\u2019s going.\n\nAs to that first thing, your definition of emo depends largely on when you discovered it, possibly more than almost any other type of music. If, like me, you learned about emo in the 1990s, you think of anything before Sunny Day Real Estate as proto-emo, and anything after, say, Jimmy Eat World as NOT emo. If you came to emo in the early 2000s, you\u2019re more likely to call Fall Out Boy & Blink-182 emo acts. Here\u2019s a quick breakdown of what I see as the main emo divisions:\n\nFor the FULL BREAKDOWN, including PRE-MO, DREAMO, EMO, SCREAMO, GLEAMO, FE-MO, and EMO RAP, go to: https://www.nickdematteo.com/podcast\n\nSo what is \u201creal emo\u201d? If you know MUSIC is not a GENRE, you already know the answer: There IS NO ANSWER. Qualities of emo can be found quite prominently in some 1980s bands, some grunge bands, and quite a bit of pop music. Some pop punk has emo leanings & some doesn\u2019t. Some metal & prog bands are emo-adjacent. Others aren\u2019t. What makes all this fun is finding the threads & following them until you hit on the \u201cemo\u201d that fits you.\n\nYou can argue that I was doing emo as early as Sunny Day, such as the song \u201cYour Sweetness\u201d (several years before Jimmy Eat World\u2019s \u201cSweetness\u201d, btw), but really the influence doesn\u2019t pop up prominently until REC\u2019s Parts and Labour, with the first song being the hands down best example of how emo REC can be. The second song is more in the line of \u201cGLEAMO\u201d than \u201cEMO\u201d. And the third one is the aforementioned \u201cYour Sweetness\u201d, from all the way back in 1996.\n\nDo you know any of the music of the bands I profiled? What do you consider \u201creal emo\u201d? Do you think emo can be clearly defined, and if so which bands would qualify? Discuss dammit!\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices