Hey, wait a minute: what the hell is this guy talking about, anyhow? That’s the beauty of subgenres: one gets into specialized language and obscure points of reference within minutes, and by the time a sentence or two has been tossed off, all but the already-converted or the most keenly interested outside observers have run screaming from the discussion. What’s more, any attempt to invite new parties into the conversation by elucidating a little will invariably be met by disagreement so vociferous that you’d almost swear you were in a room full of Trotskyites trying to come up with a satisfactory definition of “Marxism.” Well, to hell with you Trotskyist bastards: I’m going to say what I mean by “emo,” and if you don’t like it, you can just write your own definition.
