Could be that Brendan Urie is sensing the inherent faddishness of the scene surrounding his brand of mall-punk, 'cause the Panic! singer is taking the presses to distance himself from his "genre." He told NME:
Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, yes we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.
So fear not, Sunny Day and Ian MacKaye fans! There's hope yet to reclaim the lost label of your youth. But is he wrong? Has Panic! and their cadre of eyeliner-loving cheese-punk disciples in fact redefined "the emo stereotype"? If so, what do we call Embrace and Fugazi? "Emo*"?
Maybe the competing camps should adopt mascots for pictoral differentiation. Candidate #1: Tickle Me Emo! Now that's good stereotype.
