Emo

Emo is the worst genre of music ever, and was never popular until it became a fashion scene in the 2000's and edgy middle schoolers everywhere began cutting themselves. Emo is very popular on /mu/ because of all the beta /mu/tants that don't have gfs can relate to the shitty sounds of other depressed people. The only difference is that most Emo artists actually managed to get a gf, because what's sexier than a man crying about his feelings?

The word "Emo" stems from the word "Emotional" which is fucking stupid considering any song can be emotional if you really want it to. Even that one song about My Girls

Some notable Emo bands include: The Emo bands /mu/ creams itself over include and are limited to:
 * Brand New
 * My Chemical Romance
 * Taking Back Sunday
 * Fall Out Boy
 * Sunny Day Real Estate
 * American Football
 * Cap'n Jazz
 * Snowing
 * Dads
 * Algernon Cadwallader

Emo Origins
Emo originally started in the 80's when Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat decided to make punk music less about fucking shit up in society and more about the feelings of the listener. This was known as "The Great Pussification" and spawned a new era of feeling bad about yourself which created the world of skinny jeans, lethargy, and 4chan that we know today. Emo is the stupidest fucking thing, just ask the guy who started it. While nobody knows exactly who coined the term "Emo" everybody assumes it was probably some fag who said it to be cool and since he was the alpha male of the group of depressed teenagers (meaning he held a girls hand, once) they all just went along with it and thus Emo was born.

Emo+Math=Earrape
For some reason, Emo artists decided to pair emo up with Math Rock, there are a few theories as to why, but nobody knows for sure. Some say that Emo Math Rock came about when some faggy emo kid was bored in math class because he left his razors at home so he decided to combine math and emo together. Because what's more depressing than doing math, right?!? Another theory states that Emo artists wanted to combine the two genres to be more obscure so that when people discover their shitty music, the listeners can slurp up all the hipster cred they deserve for digging to the bottom of the bad music barrel.

Midwestern Emo
A majority of Emo music comes from the midwestern region of murka which makes sense, because what's more depressing than living in the midwest, right?!? Anyway, no good emo has ever come out anywhere else, so it stands that if you want good emo music, stop looking because it doesn't exist.

Screamo
Screamo (sometimes called "screamy emo", "eamy screamo", "earrape", and "turn that shit off") is another sub-genre of Emo that people decided to create for whatever reason. It is characterized by being very fast, loud and angry. Because what do people do when they get sad? Get angry! Making screamo is incredibly easy and pretty much anyone can do it, and pretty much anyone does which is why there are so many shit bands out there.Your lyrics don't even have to be intelligible which is a good thing because nobody wants to hear about how beta you are and how that girl won't like you back.

Mainstream Emo
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, along comes the worst of the worst. Shit like My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, and Dashboard Confessional are terrible Emo bands produced for the masses so 16-year-old girls and other sad retards can latch on to them and "identify" with the "deep" lyrics. In truth, these lyrics are no deeper than a paper plate and made really relatable so idiots can listen to the sad side of entry-level pop garbage "No more Doritos? I'm so depressed!". The only good bands to come out of the mainstream are Brand New and Sunny Day Real Estate, and even they both suck and have really stupid names, so listen at your own risk.

Snowing
A combination of pretty much every genre of Emo. It's got Math, Screaming, from the midwest, plus, nobody's ever heard of them! They should be great, right?? Wrong. Snowing is the worst band on the planet, yet is the forefront of the screamo/math/midwest/bad music movement while still maintaining under 50,000 listeners on last.fm. This is probably because the only people that listen to them are /mu/tants since they can't get any REAL fans. Probably the best/only good thing about Snowing is that they realeased all their music for free, which is good because you'd have to be less than a drooling autist to pay for that shit. Their demo tape "Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit" is only 5 songs, which a fucking gyp even though it's free. The title is also "funny" because it's "ironic" but really, it's "retarded" because it's "retarded". Snowing broke up in 2011 (thank god) and played a final show in a church, but even God couldn't save the world from hearing these shitty songs so Snowing decided to end it all, unfortunately, this did not mean killing themselves. There is a bootleg recording of the show (if you really feel like torturing yourself), which is very sad to listen to. Not because of the lyrics or the breakup, but the fact that so many people showed up, memorized the lyrics, and were able to sing along.