Emo_enora❁⚘

🅼🅴!-

𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚒, 𝙸'𝚖 𝙴𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚊. 𝙸'𝚖 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚖𝚘, 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢, 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌, 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝. 𝙸 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚝 𝟸𝟺/𝟽. 𝙸'𝚖 𝟷𝟼 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚗𝚜𝚠 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊, 𝚒𝚝 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚝𝚟 :<

🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅱🅻🅾🅶!

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚎𝚖𝚘! 𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎.

𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜, 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚖𝚢 𝚌𝚍𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜!!

𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚊𝚌𝚌. 𝙿𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚂𝙴 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚎𝚖𝚘, 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢. 𝙼𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗/𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚜𝚘 𝚒𝚏 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚕𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 ^_^

𝙸 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝟷 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚌 𝚊 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔!

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚜!

🅼🆄🆂🅸🅲!-

𝙸 𝚍𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸'𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚎. 𝙸'𝚖 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚖𝚘 ^_^ 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚞𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑

🅱🅰🅽🅳🆂!-

𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸'𝚖 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸'𝚖 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝙰 𝙻𝙾𝚃 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖. 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟶𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶𝚜! 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚜 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚔𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚣 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜! :D

🅰🆂🅺 🅰🆆🅰🆈!-

𝙿𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠! 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜. 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚜 𝚎𝚝𝚌 𝚜𝚘 𝚘𝚏𝚌 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 :> 𝙸𝚏 𝚞 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚙𝚕𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠!!!

🅳🅽🅸!-

𝙸𝚍𝚌 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐, 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝. 𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕. 𝙸 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚞 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐 𝚎𝚝𝚌

🅼🅴🆂🆂🅰🅶🅴🆂!-

𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚌𝚌 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚌𝚌 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚒𝚙𝚊𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝙸'𝚖 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗... 𝙿𝙻𝚂 𝙼𝙴𝚂𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙴 𝙰𝚆𝙰𝚈 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚌, 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 ^_^ 𝙿𝚕𝚜 𝚒𝚏 𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚘, 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢, 𝚖𝚢 𝚍𝚗𝚜 𝚛 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚍𝚘 :]

🅾🆃🅷🅴🆁 🅰🅲🅲'🆂!-

𝙼𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚌- @enora-elk-kirkton

𝙼𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚌𝚌- @enora-elk-kirkton-gummy

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚍 𝚘𝚞𝚝! 𝚇𝙳~

Worthless Without

Formed 2005

From Orillia, ON, Canada

Christian band

Self titled EP (2006)

THEBIRTH:THEDEATH (2007)

[BTW, u can find the members easily online ^_^]

Signature Escape-

In their words, "dirty, gritty pop punk accompanied with harmonious 3 part vocals"

Helped cultivate the New jersey pop punk scene

Well loved in the new jersey scene

Hometown is freehold, new jersy

Where there's smoke... there's fire EP (2005)

If You want to know the truth album (2008)

Scenic Attraction-

From Santa Clarita, California

Self titled album (2008)

Short cry for a long lie EP (2005)

Live at the hard Rock Cafe live album (2006)

Scenic attractions final show, January 26th 2007

[At The Plaza in Santa clarita, california]

Notes-

Forming in coral springs Florida A jealousy issue are far beyond being just another mix match band of "ex members of these emo bands".

A jealousy issues members clearly had experience in emo, with members from "a poison well" and "keepsake" both already well distinguished and talented bands on their own.

Of course traces of the past bands sound conjure themselves in A Jealousy Issues Sound but in an original and creative way.

It's clear the band was going for somewhere new and refreshing. The lack of singing and typical homage to the metal sound of emo bands from Florida create an interesting concoction of metalcore and emotional hardcore.

The bands most famous song dollface experiments with emo as a genre add an extremely atmospheric, hitting, and surreal sample from the fight club.

The sample is a really nice feature and one of the most memorable parts of their music.

The urgent, raw, powerful call of the vocals adds such a flavourful delivery to their sound. The bands sound is powerful and enriching, and the vocals aren't listened to but heard.

I also really enjoy the breakdowns throughout their songs, which create an interesting and delectable structure helping separate the thrown together style they play.

A jealousy issue is a great addition to emotional metalcore, one of my fav from the subgenre. There is some stuff of the album that seems more like matter than sound, but it isn't bad and clearly wasn't just tossed in. A Jealosy Issue deserves recognition and shouldn't be glossed over. They are very much worth listening to.

Their sound is mostly typical and slightly saturated but throws in little tangs that perpell the bands sound and give them substance. The lyrics aren't groundbreaking yet well written and do their job in being emo song lyrics well.

The band has 1 album and 1 ep, which were released in 2003. The album is named "if the flames don't kill us we will" The ep is named "somebody shoot me, I think I'm inlove"

The jealousy issues album and ep were shortly recorded after Duane hosein record the vocals for "poison the well's" debut album "The Opposite Of December... A season of Seperation".

Members- (rateyourmusic.com)

Daune Hosein (vocals)

Dave Santos (guitar)

Frank Banisi (guitar)

Chris Arango (bass)

Alex Vidal (drums)

Roger Ellison (vocals)

Jerry Jun (bass)

Andres Torres (guitar)

Steven Menard (drums)

Pete Carreno (drums)

The most well-known/important are mostly-

lifetime, braid, jawbreaker, glassjaw, cap n jazz, American football, sunny day real estate, the get up kids, mineral, jets to Brazil, dashboard confessionals, pen fold, boys life, hot rod circuit, the jazz june, thursday, Jimmy Eat world, death cab for a cutie

(Some may argue a few bands just listed arnt 2nd wave emo, but they r 2nd wave emo adjascent n still impacted 2nd wave emo/later on Midwestern emo)

Other 2nd wave emo bands-

Edaline, Texas is the reason, Christie front drive, the promise ring, giant chairs, February stars union, Luke, into it. Over it, the van pelt, camber, mid Carson July, lungfish, the Juliana theory, alkaline trio, at the drive-in, jawbox, the casket lottery, time spent driving, unwound, dismemberment plan, pedro the lion

There's so many more!

(Theys were what came to my brain first ^_^)

Side note-

I fucking love lungfish and alkaline trio

Part 1 (emo in music terms)

For one, think of the term emo (in regards to music genre) as a bit more of an umbrella term since in itself emo stands for emotional hardcore.

Different subgenus like math rock, hardcore, post hardcore, screamo an each stylised version of emos waves, could all technically count as emo by definition, and the believe they should since to me and in general with how wide spreads emos history is the term "emo" in regards to a music genre should also be seen as a type umbrella term for different subgenus of emotional hardcore music.

Basically, emo as a general is emotional hardcore music. Music that is hardcore yet expresses emotions through its sound. Leaning into a more vulnerable side of life.

Basically, emo is emotional music that makes you feel emotional, by definition. Yet with how emo arised, I'd define most emo music as this, the combination of the hardcore punk scene and emotional expression.

But I will mention that I do use the term emo and midwest emo in 2 different ways and would describe Midwest Emo as its own genre with how much it has grown since 2nd wave emo.

To most and general, the term emo is used to describe emotional hardcore music, which in itself is a blend of punk and emotional expression.

The beuty if emo is how diverse it is and how fiddley everything in regards to it is.

I'm sure to some people emo is just skrmaz (term for screamo) and the 90s hardcore scene. To me, what makes music emo is the emotion and generalised atmospheric sound.

Emo is made up of mostly confessional lyrics and contains a sort of angst or even protest against something. Since emo is so widespread, each subgenre has its own little common traits.

With Midwest emo, there are often monotone vocals mixed with intense bridges/choruses, then as a tribute to math rock, including complex guitar riffs that accompany the songs complex song structures.

Post hardcore usually is made up scream type vocals, loud distorted intense guitar riffs and solos along with loud emotional lyrics.

Every subgenre and specifically wave of emo has its own traits and things that make it come under the term emo.

Also another thing to consider is the term "emo adjascent" which refers to bands that are associated with emo, this somewhat mostly refers to emo culture yet there are many more ambigious punk/pop punk bands with less defined sounds that can fall under the term emo.

Despite all this, though, there is a reason that bands are culturally emo and not musically emo, so let's get into that.

Emo contains harsher vocals, a more raw sound, and is about emotional expression above the rest of things that put a song together, the whole point of emo (and many other alternative music genres) is that they are alternative since they are not made for the mainstream.

Hardcore was and will always be a non mainstream music genre, emo became commercialised, this watered down many aspects of emo music like screaming vocals and a extremely intense and blended guitar sound so that it could fit into and become mainstream.

This change and evolution to becoming mainstream happend so emo could be profited of and in general when things get mor popular, someone will be wanting to profit.

Emo began gaining popularity outside of the hardcore scene worh 2nd wave emo, due to 2nd wave emo being a lot less intense and more palatable to the masses.

So, really, overtime emo has become watered down yet is still given the emo label due to association, culture, culture evolution, marketing and the need to give bands labels to sell more.

To me I view it as when talking about emo you MUST specify what wave you are talking about in order to give context to which style of emo you are talking about since all 3 have a different base sound.

1st wave is rooted in punk and hardcore, being more intense and for a smaller audience.

2nd wave is more technical and more monotone, with songs being made with more thought and music theory.

3rd wave is much more mainstream and each band carries inspirations from many different places, and has a very pop punk sound

To summarise, emo is emotional music that contains elements of hardcore (the music genre), some of these elements being screaming vocals, simpler sound, more thrown together instruments, and more focus on the emotion than the sound (most times).

Part 2 (Emo Trinity)

I'm going to be very honest that I can't pick! The emo trinity refers to 3 bands that shaped emo culture, so if I had to choose 3 bands that truly shaped emo, I'd maybe pick rites of spring/beefeater/orchid, capp n jazz and controversially my chemical romance

I'd pick beefeater since they are one of the first examples of hardcore music being expiremented in a way that opened people to the concept of emotional hardcore (think of it as the pre cursor to emo).

Yet rites of spring where such an influential band, they helped move the sound to more emotional while still tipping their toes in the punk roots, sort of being the link between both genres.

Yet orchid helped push mainstream to a bigger audience while also really developing the screamo and emo sound forward being a band that really drove punk to become emo, being behind many defining attributes of emo like screaming vocals.

Then cap n jazz are one of the most influential bands for emo. They pioneered and honestly in many respects developed the math rock sound that continues to live through 4th and 5th wave emo bands to this day!

They heavily influenced midwest emo tirents, like American football and Joan of arc, which in themselves would go on to also greatly shape modwest emo as a whole.

Now, for mcr, to many emo elitists, this would be an extremely controversial pick (mainly since they don't even view remotley pop punk sounding emo as emo.)

The only album from my chem that is technically emo/ emo adjacent would be their debut (bullets).

Bullets contains core parts of emotional hardcore.

Yet the insane culture switch mcr helped create with emo is undeniable.

MCR was one of the leading bands in creating/indirectly causing commercialised emo which would form the sound of 3rd wave emo/blend of pop punk and emo

Mcr's asthetic and sound drove an immense and unimaginable immense amount of people towards emo and the culture as a whole.

Bullets came out in 2002 and mcr in 2004.

The band coming about during the switch from the hardcore scene to more mainstream and also emos internet days made their impact on emo massive.

MCR reshaped and redefined what emo was seen as and helped form the whole look synonymous with emo. Ofc many other bands were also a part of this change, yet mcr were on the biggest who continue to have the same impact.

Hot topic boomed with MCR fans and mall goths, MCR was a band that many people from many differnt subgenres listened to, uniting and blending themes of subcultures together.

When you unite and blend subcultures together it only creates more sounds, MCR also influenced so many pop punk bands and were the catalyst for many emo icons to get into the genre (people like ryan ross).

They were also a different sound to the pop punk saturated scene. They were one of the only bands with such theatrics, changing views on emo culture once again, and they also shaped emo fashion.

From the people they inspired, culture shift they had a major part in, effect on emo to this day, it's difficult to say MCR haven't helped shape the change and switch within emo, ofc how u view this change in emo as a negative or a positive is up to you.

To me, the switch and more mainstream sound only created a new community of angst teens who could emotionally express themselves.

So despite mcr not neccasrially falling under the emo music genre, lacking many elements of emotional hardcore, the cultural impact they had is undeniable and shows just how interestingly emo have evolved.

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HAII! that's the end :> sorry if this is confusing or not explained well, it's such a complex topic and adding every smaller yet important details would just be too much😭

if you have any questions/want to know more/confused on ANYTHING please let me know!!

This is a learning space! Emo is a very complex genre ^_^

Emo has 5 waves (but the first 3 are the main ones). Emo has been around since the 1980s, starting with bands like beefeater and rites of spring, which were punk bands!

Emo came from punk and hardcore (which in itself came from punk) and then evolved into different sounds and subcultures over time.

1st wave emo is extremely punk based, 2nd wave is when mathrock became a big part of emo culture and developed a more midwest emo sound with bands like lifetime and braid.

3rd wave emo is your more pop punk sounding band.

Think of 3rd wave as progressive emo incorporating sounds from all over the scene. This is why 3rd wave emo bands don't have a definite sound.

3rd wave emo is also extremely interchangeable with being around the time emo became commercialised and went from an underground local scene (mirroring it's punk roots) for hardcore kids to the pop punk mcr affiliated community it is now.

Bands like Jimmy Eat World and later on mcr helped move emo from basements to MySpace. It is important to remember that commercialised emo often contains music that doesn't fit into the actual genre of emo.

Bands like panic at the disco bearing emo titles, yet the music is extremely far from the genre.

The whole topic and discussion of emos waves is extremely interesting and really shows how alternative music evolved.

Before emo commercialisation, there wasn't a look being sold since no one was attempting to profit from emo, emo existed for kids to be able to come together and listen to music.

Emo kids used to just be hardcore kids and dressed in stereotypical nerdy chareotypes since there wasn't a fashion or style into white belt fashion that came into play and leaned into men's more feminine styling.

The waves of emo truly show what alternative music is and its purpose but also how it evolves and what causes change.