Clearly you know very little about these bands as you wouldn't be saying some of the things you are. You are Greenwald, right? You've basically used this article to ballwash his lousy book that is in fact another stepping stone in the falsification of a misunderstood sub-genre of hardcore music that was born with the worst name in the history of genre titles. If you're not him, then I hope he's paid you well to pimp his nam here.

You know why these things are so little known? Because the people that know about it, that care about it, aren't writing for Rolling Stone/Spin or sharing their thoughts on some famous blog or anything like that. Where are these so-called reputable sources? I don't need some celebrity gossip site telling me a band is emo-pop (what?) and having this site link to that as if it's factually correct. I see a solid 9 links to the Billboard charts, all for completely off-topic, non-emo related material. I must say the standard set for good sources here is criminally low.

None of this is my point of view, because I am simply talking about facts and events that really happened. Yes those bands were real in the 90's, and yes they played what is really emo. Then the mainstream caught ahold of it and ruined it by plugging bands like SDRE and Weezer that had nothing to do with it. That's what really happened. Why would there not be countless tales of this happening? Because the mainstream media, the only people that can put out articles in the mid-90's before the internet buzz, never heard of the damn word until those kind of popular bands started having it associated with their name. "Oh emo, that must be emotional right? And listen to this band. They don't sound like anything else out there today. Emo it is!" 

You think I'm an elitist, but I'm just being a realist. I see the full puzzle here. What you're presenting in this Greenwald-quote stealing essay is only part of the puzzle. The only thing revisionist is the idea that these pop-punk/indie rock bands had anything to do with a genre that was already changing and evolving from the hardcore scene it began in back in the 80's. But no, let's not give those bands a single sentence of credit in this poorly written article.