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In honor of Valentine's Day, it would only be appropriate to talk about a musical style that Valentine's Day brings out the best in, and that, of course, is emo.
Sure, Valentine's Day is about flowers, chocolate hearts, the corporate exploitation of an overly sentimental holiday with an overriding focus on consumerism and maybe even love, but there's also the counter-cultural approach to Valentine's Day -- celebrated with the donning of black attire and the blasting of bitter songs about cheating ex-girlfriends and loveless, empty futures.
However, I'm not going to address emo music and its surrounding culture per se, although I won't go out of my way to avoid ridiculing it; rather, I want to discuss everyone's over-eagerness to classify music as emo.
Emo originated as a musical style that branched off of hardcore, a subgenre of punk that many find unbearable, or at least incomprehensible.