Weezer – Not strictly emo, Weezer still play an important role in the modern development of the genre. In 1996 they abandoned the poppier direction of 'Buddy Holly' etc. with the release of the seminal 'Pinkerton.' The concept album was much heavier and darker in both its themes and sounds, characteristics many believe emo bands in the 2000's jumped upon. In a 2001 Blender interview, Rivers Cuomo said: "I don’t really know what emo means. But apparently I had something to do with it."
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- mcr is not emo!!
- always the same shit -.- mcr is NOT emo.
- if people are going to call my chemical romance emo then i suppose abba was "emo" as well.
just because music might sound and look one way, it does not mean thats what it is on the inside. if the person who wrote this knew the boys from MCR then they would see that they are not emo at all.
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- my chemcial romance isn\'t emo, and they hate being called emo espeshally Gerard Way
- emo is not like music of mcr there songs and lyrics like"black parade",,,its such a devil.....
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