Get Up Kids Apologize for Emo

No seriously, they did. Which is good, I've been waiting about ten years for that.

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All sentiments I've shared for years. Nice to finally be vindicated.

Well, they suck. They should apologize for that first.

And "emo" didn't start with them. Unfortunately, what people now call emo is terrible music and no one listens to Rites of Spring anymore.


/humbug

Baby steps, man, they're starting to consider the possibility that they do, in fact, suck. Or did. That's a good start.

Ah, grasshopper, but Rites of Spring didn't suck, the Get Up kids' innovation was suckiness. That was the crucial ingredient to launching emo as a whole scene.

1) Do Something
2) Suck at it
3) Profit

That Fugazi was ever considered emo is a travesty.

But their music really was emotional!

That and at the time no one realized how important a part of the genre sucking would be.

why? Emo back then was something different than it is now.

For the exact same reason that it's a shame people refer to Joy Division as goth.

But that's just wrong. They aren't goth at all.

Guy Picciotto of Fugazi was in (probably) the first Emo group. And Ian Mackaye's label put out the first emo records.

The hidden part of this message is the Get Up Kids taking credit for Emo. Which is kind of douchey to begin with.

Not accepted! Now go and cut yourself!

Won't this just make all the emo kids more depressed?

At least someone's apologizing.

that's cool that they copped to that.

now, if only Korn would apologize for what they started

But who will apologize for this?

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I agree. Its well known fact that acceptance is the first step.

Coyotemike said:
But who will apologize for this?

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I seriously doubt ICP will apologize for anything, much less that.

It would be interesting to see if anyone ever apologizes for autotune voice modulations because that shit is reaaal annoying.

I'm not sure which is more annoying: those over-autotunings that are so styley now, or the less obvious but autotuned-to-lifeless-perfection vocals on just about everything else...

Thats fucking priceless.

I only wish Jimmy Eat World would also recognize their contribution to the history of rock n roll and apologize as well.

I'm just glad that someone who HELPED starting the trend apologized. No one band can claim they invented emo. Swedish bands like Refused had that queer hair cut before it became fashionable here and they didn't even sound emo. Somewhere along the line, kids started crying to a melody and magically attributed a fashion trend to it. And I for one, as a high school teacher, am glad someone is trying to maybe make it uncool. I am sick of emo kids and their antics! I deal with that shit every morning!