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Chapter One: The History of Emo as a credible music genre

"Is it real or it's a Fugazi?"

The first years of this new century have been distinguished by the lack of a new genre representativeof this generation, it seems like all the new rock music revolves around a few genres and their mixes: Punk pop/Powerpop, Emo and Hardcore, (if you don't believe me, go to the Warped Tour), being Emo the most popular one with the biggest amount of fans, but, for those young teens who are ingenuous don't know about the history of their favorite music, I'm sorry to dissapoint you but emo wasn't invented by My Chemical Romance, this generation is probably guilty responsible of just emocruk and everything that makes real musicians ashamed, but before starting to critizice emo and emocrunk, let me give you a little introduction to the history of this genre:

In 1984, a band called Hüsker Dü released their 3d album called "Zen Arcade", a record that is considered the father of all the Alternative movement in the 90's; one of the genres that was born under the alternative movement was the Hardcore Punk, whose pioneers and maybe creators were the bands Bad Brains, Minor Threat and Black Flag. Some time later, Ian MacKaye from Minor Threat founded a band called Embrace, probably the first emocore band. Some time later, Ian and Guy Picciotto from post-hardcore band Rites of Spring (a band that was formed to protest against hardcore's agresiveness with melodic guitars and deeply, impassioned lyrics), formed the band Fugazi as a reaction against all the violence in the hardcore scene. These two bands (Embrace and Fugazi) are the first bands that belong to the Emotional Core genre.

In the mid-90's bands as Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring and Fugazi itself were in charge of keeping the genre alive, but Weezer and Jimmy Eat World (whose album "Static Prevails" is considered the first emo record released by a big label) were the ones who took it to mainstream and influenced the new generation of emo bands. You should ask William Beckett check them out, you can learn something about music. (but seriously, William Beckett knows a lot about this.)

And no didactic material is complete without audiovisual support, so here's a taste of what you have read, the beggining of the history of Emo in videos: 

Thanks for reading!! I know you wanted to critizice The Millionaires, but don't worry, parts 2 and 3 are coming soon!!