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Old 09-29-2012, 01:25 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Ok, but excactly WHEN did it change, and why? I wanna know the reason My Chemical Romance is an "emo band" when they're not part of the emo genre.
It seemed like it changed in the mid 00s, when the bands you mentioned got got popular. As to why it happened, I'm not sure. But it seems like just part of the larger pattern of pop music co-opting non-mainstream genre tags.
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