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Except this article is extremely biased because it references the same Andy Greenwald junk 70 times. You want to talk about Wikipedia standards, show me any good historical article on here with a lot of references that goes to one same reference for more than 50% of the time (and over 70 times total). That's absurd. Just rename this ""Emo (as defined by Andy Greenwald)"" and be done with it. The ""style"" did not change into pop-punk and indie bands; the media did that by screwing up the word. The real bands continued playing and evolved in sound (many taking a heavier approach which is only hinted at in the lead but never once mentioned again), but it was still in the same genre and rooted in hardcore. That's the whole point of having sub-genres. They build from a larger genre. This article makes zero distinction that while emo continued and evolved naturally, it was at one point rebranded in the media into something completely different from where it started.   "