So rites of spring aren't emo, but any band that contributed to emotional music becoming mainstream is emo? and those bands are only emo because they contributed to emo becoming mainstream....o..k...

tell ya what i ****ing hate emo music anyway, can't stand the stuff, i don't know why im still here, you kids have fun now.

No I never said that.

I`m not argueing what is & what isn`t emo what i`m saying is somewhere along the line emo became mainstream & so far i`ve not seen anybody suggest how that happened.

Emo didn`t become mainstream because all of a sudden thousands of teenagers in the late 90s started buying a 15 year old rites of spring album.

If you read my original post in this thread you`ll see what i`m getting at.

Fall Out Boy Are Emo Right?
They Look G[/i]ay Enough

:D you love them really...

Ha Dude you know me well enough to know
I Really Dont.

Uh so, basically, all these bands bayside, anberlin, alexisonfire, bullet for my valentine, the used, my chemical romance, etc... are all emo bands because some of them contain slight emo influences? I Killed The Prom Queen is also emo because they sing about cutting themselves? Some bands probaly do have emo influences, but that wouldn't make them emo. That'd be like considering every band influenced by the ramones pop-punk and or bubblegum punk.

Yes. Basically.
Now Get Out.:wave:

You seem to have missed my point by a mile.
Like I said i`m not saying what is & isn`t emo , i`m just saying that nobody has so far said anything about what bands contributed into emo becoming mainstream and you are just dodging the issue to pick holes on points i`m not even trying to make.
I`m not argueing with you here i`m asking you because so far i`ve not seen you or anybody else answer the question , if the bands he mentioned had no impact into the mainsteam success of emo then who did?

I really don't see how emo is mainstream.