Emo MUSIC in it's purest and original form. True
emo. It used to be a musical genre in the '80s until the world killed it in the 2000s by turning it into an insult and a label. Started by what is the first emo
band to produce an album, Rites Of Spring, it was a combination of punk
rock mixed with raw emotion, often related to love. Rites Of Spring was introduced and categorized as the very first band to play the Emotional Hardcore genre. Later, a shorter term was coined in place of Emotional Hardcore. This new word was Emocore. Then, after Emocore got around,
people shortened it even more to
Emo. Modern day people now use this word with completely different meaning. When they think of
emo, they think of a lonely
kid wearing girl pants and eyliner cutting himself. They don't know the true meaning of
emo, and it is indeed a very sad thing. The world would be a completely different place if people knew what
emo really meant, and what a wonder it used to be, and how much they have corrupted it.
Rites of Spring is a truely talented emotional
hardcore band. The real definition of
emo, unlike many mainstream "
emo" bands such as Dashboard Confessional, Get Up kids and Hawthorne Heights.