Talk:My Chemical Romance/Emo

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Sources

Magazines, Newspapers & Websites

• Rolling Stone Magazine [1] - "In the new millennium My Chemical Romance brought the angsty punk sub-genre known as "emo" to the mainstream masses.", "MCR became the Top Ten's first emo superheroes within three years of forming."
• Village Voice [2] - "Live: Emo Titans My Chemical Romance" , "My Chemical Romance isn't an arena band, at least not yet; they're still an emo band playing at an arena", "My Chemical Romance has become the ultimate circa-2007 suburban high school band by finding an uneasy middle ground between two genres, MySpace emo and arena-glam", "MCR may be the only one of the current generation of MySpace emo bands"
• Daily Mail [3] - "The internet has many sites dedicated to Emo fashion (dyed black hair brushed over your face, layering, black, black, black), Emo bands (Green Day, My Chemical Romance)"
• The Independent [4] - "Emo (which is short for emotional) music, is described as "punk with emotion", and has been made popular by bands like My Chemical Romance"
• The Guardian [5] - "My Chemical Romance, the emo band who reconditioned poppy gothic rock for the 21st century"
• The Observer [6] - "appropriated by US pop-punk emo bands such as My Chemical Romance"
• BBC [7] - "Here is a passage from Dead! by emo superstars My Chemical Romance (MCR)"
• The Times [8]] - "the American emo band My Chemical Romance", "covering stadium emo acts, such as My Chemical Romance"
• All Music [9], AOL Music [10] & VH1 [11] "their emo-punk songcraft"
• MTV [12] - "New Jersey emo-punkers"
• LA Times [13] - "While critics, surprised by the introduction of grandiose Queen dynamics and Beatles flourishes into punkish, post-emo rock,"
• The Evening Herald [14] - "Like when My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy come to the RDS and showcase just how inexplicably popular the genre has become" (N.B. 'genre' very clearly refers to emo within the context of the article)
• Entertainment Weekly [15] - "My Chemical Romance inject some welcome gravitas into the emo scene"
• MOJO HD [16] - "stars of the emo-hardcore- new goth scene, My Chemical Romance"
• Blender [17] - "The Next Best Thing! My Chemical Romance Five emo fast-rockers from New Jersey"
• STV [18] - "The Emo rockers - who released their last LP 'The Black Parade' in 2006"

Books

• Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge By Keith Kahn-Harris, Published by Berg Publishers, 2007, ISBN 1845203992, 9781845203993 [19] - "'emo' bands such as Funeral For A Friend and My Chemical Romance"
• My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion---How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived Into the Mainstream By Matt Diehl Published by Macmillan, 2007 ISBN 0312337817 9780312337810 [20] - "New Jersey emo-rockers, My Chemical Romance" [21] - "The East Coast-based emo scene that produced bands like My Chemical Romance"
• My Chemical Romance: This Band Will Save Your Life By Reinhardt Haydn Published by Plexus Publishing, Limited, 2007 ISBN 0859654168, 9780859654166 - "the standard-bearers for a new fusion of punk, glam, and emo"
• Pocket Karaoke By Sarah Lewitinn Published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008 ISBN 1416950907, 9781416950905

Examples of POV pushing paranoia preserved

“ Excuse my French, but you're forgetting that ALL of this is bull. A} Half those newspapers hold a grudge against MCR for being much more acomplished and generally better people than they ever could be. ” — Akira-otomo

“ All of these sources are magazines that cater toward fans in order to get their money. Do people seriously think these are reliable sources? Why would these sources be put above the band leader as a source? In all of these quotes, emo seems to be some kind of insult rather than describing the type of music they play. I thought it was against wikipedia policy to use insults as sources? ”