Mainstremo 

A current scene in rock music that contains numerous bands who identify themselves or are labelled as emo, but share none of the stylistic traits of foundational emo bands such as Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Sunny Day Real Estate, or Texas is the Reason. This style began in the D.C. Hardcore scene during the Revolution Summer of 1985. Earlier bands often sounded akin to hardcore punk, but utilizing more dissonance and more varied time signatures. Nineties bands were often softer and focused on intricate guitar work and melodies.

Such bands may include Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights, Fall Out Boy, Something Corporate, As I Lay Dying, and Panic! At the Disco, among others. Most of these bands fit more comfortably into the post-hardcore, alternative rock, or modern rock categories. These bands are known for a generic sound, whiny and/or nasally vocals, and for overtly depressing and sad lyrics. Most of the bands adhere to the stereotypes of the emo fashion, but some, like My Chemical Romance, have adopted their own identifiable look. Their guitar work usually consists of power chords, tuned to Drop-D with heavy distortion, not unlike nu-metal. Some of the more musically technical bands likely fit better into the fashioncore, metalcore, or post-hardcore scenes.

Taking Back Sunday is Mainstremo. Fugazi is emotional/emotive hardcore, the true meaning of emo.

Mainstremo by Wreck the Check August 1, 2006

mainstream meme 

When a meme has become so popular that it appears on the news, TV, or anything else outside of message boards. When this happens, it is deemed too popular and forever called "OLD".

Rick Rolling has been a mainstream meme for a very long time. Cut it out.

mainstream meme by deathwish124 May 24, 2009

Mainstream music 

Music that always plays on the radio and the TV, and is on the top 40 list on every music software like iTunes and Spotify. It is quick-made on a computer, usually featuring not very good but good looking musicians (if they can be called that) and it is un-original and boring. People without any taste in music listen to it because it's easy to find and everyone else listen to it, so then they don't need to worry about being considered "different". Mainstream music songs usually stay on the top-lists for a couple of months or maybe a year, and then they're gone. Also, people who listen to it usually would call a 2 year old song "very old", though bands like Led Zeppelin still rock anyone's brains out with their songs from the seventees.

Annoying teen girl: "Oh my god, have you heard that new Rihanna song? I love it!"

A month later, someone puts on the same mainstream music song

Same annoying chick: "Eww that song is old and outdated, turn it off"

Mainstream music by rocknroller2012 December 17, 2012

Mainstream crap 

Music that focuses on getting stuck in your head and becoming so ubiquitus that you are forced to like it or else you will have clinical depression from hearing it so much. This music is almost always made by humans who are often called musicians (but in all truth, are not musicians) who manipulate their image for monotary reasons. This music often focuses on sounding much more technological than musical. Much pop and hip-hop to enter the top 40 has been mainstream crap since the '00's.

person 1: Man, Lady Gaga, The BEP, and other mainstream crap has been all over the place, it makes me want to commit suicide

person 2: I use to think the same thing, but now the music has grown on me

person 1: Nooooooooo! You failed in the battle to not get that music stuck in your head to the point where you have to like it! What has become of this world

Mainstream crap by Suteer Yarchaz January 18, 2010

Mainstream rap 

Bullshit ass ripoff of the true art form of Hip Hop

Retard: OMG, I Love MTV and Mainstream Rap
Me: Go Die

Mainstream rap by A-Z September 3, 2006

Mainstream Junkie 

Someone that is on top of everything that's mainstream. This person knows about everything that is new and is quick to jump to anything that is new. A mainstream junkie can be good or bad.

The fake ones are the followers only doing it because the real ones (leaders) are doing it.

Wow, last year he liked Pop music, now he's on 50 cent's groan. What a Mainstream Junkie.

Did you hear that new Travis Porter. That shit is so dope and new. It's changing the way I think about certain things. Those guys are some Mainstream Junkies

Mainstream Junkie by They Lazy Genius November 4, 2009

mainstream sellout 

The sixth official studio album by machine gun Kelly

Mainstream sellout fuckin rocks

mainstream sellout by Jaydubhs March 7, 2022