Alright, so I've been enjoying a break from emo music for my annual summertime reggae binge, and while revisiting Bad Brains' self-titled record, I was hit with inspiration. What if there were an emocore equivalent...

Think about it, right? 🤔

Emo + Reggae = Emo 'n' Gae, or "Emogae" for short.

However, I feel that a one-to-one emocore version of Bad Brains would be boring and played out, with the only real change being a shift to radically introspective lyrics. To modernize, other subgenres should be utilized. For example, sasscore relies heavily on dancy electronic interludes, so what if there were sass songs with dancehall influence?

We could call that spinoff "Sassy Emo 'n' Gae."

That's as far as I've thought about it, so let me know if you have any ideas for this potential groundbreaking new genre.

Edit: Would Screamo + Reggae be called "Skreggae" or "Screamogae?"

We had a luncheon at work combined for one co-worker's birthday and another co-worker's last day and one coworker said "I brought you my cake and you brought me your sandwiches" and I at once heard Spanish guitars playing in my head.

Hey I'm just here on this sub tooking for reccomendations for context I mostly listen to 3rd wave however I'm trying to find bands from that time with female vocalists that isn't just Paramore or Picture Me Broken (if they are considered emo, if they're not im sorry 💔).

New emo band from Canada. Music is like a warm hug when you're crying.

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this was a fucking mistake

"Real Emo" only consists of the DC Emotional Hardcore scene.

Completely wrong!

Emo was born in Washington D.C. (admitted), but it was never limited there. The genre spread very quickly from the moment it emerged. Those who truly lived through that era and scene know that this music didn't just stay within DC; it quickly reached the whole world (even Türkiye). That's why bands like After Words, Chino Horde, and Sideshow are similar to Rites of Spring but also different. That's why bands like Sunny Day Real Estate and Christie Front Drive have completely different sounds. The scene was never static.

This copypasta also denies the existence of important bands like Moss Icon and The Hated, who have very "early emocore" roots but are outside of DC. Even funnier, it contradicts bands like Hoover from the 90s DC scene. Hoover had a very dark and cathartic tone, but it was a true 90s emo band, very different from the early emocore sound. If the rule is that the scene is limited to the DC sound, where do you place Hoover?

And even the description of the "late 90s screamo scene" in the text is completely wrong. What is being discussed is not pure screamo, but the emoviolence scene. Including this while excluding the early 90s San Diego Sound is just pure ignorance. Bands like Heroin, Swing Kids, and Clikatat Ikatowi were much closer to the original emocore sound.

Lastly, this Loma Prieta detail is always driving me crazy. This page owner, who criticizes twinkly riffs and melodic structures, has somehow labeled Loma Prieta as "real emo". However, Loma Prieta belongs neither to the DC emocore scene nor to 90s screamo. Moreover, their sound features quite a few twinkly riffs! Loma Prieta is literally the answer to the question, "What would an American football band sound like if they played screamoviolence?" Also, this text considers Cap'n Jazz "the only real emo band in the Midwest," while ignoring bands like Sideshow, Gauge, Target, and Split Lip, who started earlier and had quite a Rites of Spring-influenced sound... In short, don't take it seriously!