A few months ago emo superstars My Chemical Romance were being vilified in The War On Emo which was waged on both sides of the Atlantic by British newspaper The Daily Mail and the Utah-based American news TV channel ABC4. Now singer Gerard Way has declared war on emo himself!
Speaking to an American college website, The Maine Campus, Way said: "I think emo's a pile of shit. I think emo is fucking garbage. It's bullshit.
"I think there are bands that we get lumped in with that are considered emo and, by default, that starts to make us emo," he continued. "ll I can say is anyone actually listening to the records, put the records next to each other and listen to them and there's actually no similarities.
"I think emo's a pile of shit."