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I am copying wikipeadia's blurb here but you know I want this to be a fun train not a genre shaming train so if you want to say play the right kind of The Cure song then I am not not going to worry - if it fits it sits
Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional
lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known
as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. As
the style was echoed by contemporary American punk rock bands, its sound and meaning shifted and
changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such as
Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate. By the mid-1990s numerous emo acts had emerged from the
Midwestern and Central United States, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the
style.
Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the sales success of Jimmy Eat World and
Dashboard Confessional, with the genre's popularity continuing in the mid-to-late 2000s with bands such
as My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.