I hate that 'Emo' is a dirty word these days

Its so frustrating to love a certain type of music and then have it's title ass-raped by the soddin' media and MTV and fuckin' scenesters who are too fuckin' cool for school! To like Emo (or Emo-core) was a good thing back in the day. It was a little known off-shoot of post-hardcore (titles galore!) and so many awesome bands fit into its silly little label. These days anything thats not Metal or Pop gets labeled Emo, which from here on in shall be known as MTVEMO. I guess its how alot of people felt when bands started coming out saying they were 'Punk' or were labelled as such many years after being Punk was relevant. Whats even sadder is that the few bands still left who were considered Emo back in the day are now stuck with the MTVEMO stigma, which is a shame. I'm mainly on my high horse about this because of the recent news that Texas Is The Reason have reformed for a one off anniversary show for one the greatest albums ever made 'Do You Know Who You Are?'. This band are one of many who re-invigorated my love of music in the mid to late nineties. Without TITR, The Get Up Kids, Far, Christie Front Drive, and many more, i would have thought music was doomed to be all Brit-pop (or Brit-poop) or stadium headliners riding the coattails of 'Grunge'. What annoys me even more though, is that i never got to see half of these bands. One of the many reasons living in the UK sucks. And dont even get me started on the government. Whinge over, nothing to see here folks....please disperse.