I think this is something that people have been saying since the genre started, or at least after the 90s "boom". I don't know if it's true or not, i just know that after a while it started to seem like a lot of the new emo bands weren't all that different from mainstream ones, or at least what they were singing about stopped being interesting to me. Really, though, you should check out a lot of stuff for example from South America and Mexico. There seems to be a really active scene there (lots of , and supposedly Subir en busca del aire got back together, at least that's what i read online. Check out "Después de todo" (Acaso yo no lucho por algo? Do you really think there's nothing i fight for?). Really good lyrics and really moving music.
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Really, people who have something to say will find a way to say it, maybe through an emo band, maybe through some other type of music, maybe through some other medium, "
sometimes a blank page says a lot"
