For people 18 or older: How is it they call Fall Out Boy emo now?

You know what I mean. How has the meaning of emo changed completely into a mainstream stereotype with chart topping success? Bands like Fall Out Boy, Hawthrone Heights, and My Chemical Romance sound nothing like actual emo. What brings about phenomon like these? The real question there is, why do labels create these bands? Do the major record labels just pluck things out of the underground at random and make them the "next big thing" with there millions of dollars? What was biggest moment where emo transformed? Was it when Jimmy Eat World was really big? When Weezer started sucking? Why did Weezer start sucking in the first place (other than line up changes)? How has myspace contributed to these awful changes? Has it encouraged the conformity we see today or just reflected it? Be specific. And don't bother to answer this question if you don't know what you're talking about/too young to remember. I could really ask this question about hardcore too but it's been asked many times before.

For people 18 or older: How is it they call Fall Out Boy emo now?

i would like to put in my 2 cents about this whole thing, im 25 by the way.

there is no phenomenon with this "emo" scene. this is something that large music corporations do all the time. look at what happened with rap in the early 80's, it went from underground to an almost overnight sensation. look at grunge, this genre came out of the post punk scene in the eighties also, but got more mainstream in the 90's. why you ask? because there is money to be made.

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For people 18 or older: How is it they call Fall Out Boy emo now?

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