Sep 24, 2007 • 1 min read

Way against emo

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has rejected the emo label, dismissing the genre and saying the band are unfairly lumped in with it.

My Chemical Romance have become the figureheads of emo, thanks to Daily Mail readers, the emo-hating middle-England press and, well, partly themselves, if we're being honest. But MCR frontman Gerard Way ain't having none of it, dissing the genre and distancing his band from it, saying: "Emo is a pile of shit, fucking garbage", and adding that he believes that MCR are unfairly lumped in with the emo sect. All sounds a bit whiney and, ahem, emo to me.

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