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Emo is a melodic, expressive, and confessional form of punk rock which began around 1985. Its roots reach back to the hardcore punk scene of 1980s Washington, D.C., where bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace were sometimes described as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore". The style was recontextualized in the early 1990s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate, and broke into the mainstream in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the success of bands like Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional. Screamo, a more aggressive offshoot, found popularity through acts like Taking Back Sunday and Thursday. Today the "emo" label is often used as a catchall term by critics to describe multiplatinum acts such as Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, as well as disparate artists such as Coheed and Cambria, Panic! at the Disco, and Bring Me the Horizon.

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