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What was the gateway song that got you into emo stuff?

Mine was Tears Don't Fall by Bullet for my Valentine, Face Down by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and My Heroine by Silverstein. 


These songs will always have a special place in my <3 


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Reply by Lola

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I've been into emorap since i was about like nine or eight, but it was a cover of i'm low on gas and you need a jacket by pierce the veil that really got me into emo music


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Reply by yuri

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 eu sei que My Chemical Romance não é exatamente uma banda emo, mas a primeira música que ouvi antes de me tornar definitivamente emo e começar a me aprofundar no sub foi Teens 


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Reply by cinnam0nz

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Ive always been listening to alt music cause of my mum, but defo mama by my chemical romance :)


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Reply by Lessark

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"Note to Self" by From First To Last, that little 16 year old skrillex caused and solved so many problems for me heading into my teenage years


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Reply by Helena

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deffinetly my chem. my birthname is helena so ofcourse when i was 8 i searched up my name and oh looky here a song with my name as the title!! even watching the making of the mv is so heartwarming because just hearing people actually say it right makes me so happy :3


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Honest to god, it was a song in a creepypasta slideshow. "Don't You dare forget the sun" by Get scared XD. I started liking creepypasta in the early 2010s in like 3rd grade. It introduced me to a whole new type of music I had never heard before. Music that was really popular in the fandom at the time was stuff like Get Scared and Set It Off, which led to me getting into bands like My Chemical Romance, Falling In Reverse, Pierce The Veil, Fly Leaf, Meg, and Dia... and other popular pop-punk emo-esc bands, which then led to me getting into og emo bands from the '90s. I think at the time, emo and emo aesthetics were extremely popular and influential on the internet, especially in niche spaces and fandoms like Creepypasta, the amount of videos you can find on youtube of just pictures of Ticci Toby being played to Get Scared is insane.


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Reply by lia

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teenagers by my chemical romance!!


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Reply by Meido

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Same Logic/Teeth by Brand New was where it all started going downhill for me


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Reply by MariG

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I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chem 🖤


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Reply by Dark Angel

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I was listening to Enter Shikari / Amatory / Stigmata / Origami starts from 8 years old


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Reply by emma

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unsurprisingly, it was welcome to the black parade by mcr... XD


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Reply by cxmeterydr1ve

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Mine was Demolition Lovers by MCR, I researched it for my college course and got hooked almost immediately 


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Reply by gh0st

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I think it was I don't love you by mcr

And also the one about all the small things by blink-182


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Reply by piercethejayla

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don't you dare forget the sun by get scared


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Reply by Sokka

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Don't you dare forget the sun - get scared

it's not exactly 100% emo but it got me into the subculture in 2012 as kind of a gateway


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Reply by xd34dx

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in the end by black veil brides but also welcome to the black parade by mcr <33


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Reply by Strawberry Aubrey

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Can you feel my heart by bring me the heriozion<3


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Reply by xX_N1ghtm4r3_P01s0n_Xx

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'Animal I Have Become' by Three Days Grace. And it was in a Sonic X recolour speedpaint from like 2007.


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Reply by Becca ∞

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Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan reeeeally played a huge part!


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Reply by Maggot

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Easily "You're So Creepy" by Ghost Town!! I was big into like mainstream metal till my BF of the time introduced me to them, and I never looked back!!


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Reply by eula

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for me it was disenchanted and then teenagers by mcr :)


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Reply by artie

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in like 2017 i listened to american idiot 4 the first time !!! grew up w an emo aunt so ig it was coming my way xP


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Reply by ✨ Ava :3 ✨

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In The End by Black Veil Brides, Misery Business by Paramore and WTTBP by My Chem


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Reply by kukoromi_guts

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The light behind your eyes by my chemical romance


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Reply by xR0b..3rrtX

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def has to be bring me back to live 


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Reply by _V4mp1ra_

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Teenagers-mcr, Misery Business-Paramore, Dance,Dance-FOB 

Then I took like a 5 month break from emo/pop punk music cause I was getting out of my emo phase but the song that got me back into it was Breathing by Yellowcard :)


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Reply by TektoRock

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Je viens d'écouter My Chemical Romance - The Light Behind Your Eyes et ça me touche énormément, je ne comprends pas ce qui m'arrive, pourtant je ne suis pas un grand connaisseur de cette culture.


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Reply by <3envy<3

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Sugar by system of a down


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Reply by xX_N1ghtm4r3_P01s0n_Xx

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"Animal I Have Become" by Three Days Grace. Gods, takes me back to the good old days of 2008 speedpaints with edgy Emo music. Those days were the best.


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Reply by xx.nick.xx

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My dad listened to Silverstein, three days grace, and Hawthorne heights among many other emo bands through my childhood so I've always been listening to emo


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Reply by LlamadoAng3L

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My older brother and his friends they where teenagers and skater emo’s and everything they did always called my attention also seeing other teenagers such as scenes and more just can’t remember what I could even call it Xd


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Reply by Smiledawg

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blood by my chemical romance! found it from a creepypasta video in 2011


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Reply by ! Bri

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Partners In Crime - Set it Off and Good Girls Bad Guys - Falling In Reverse


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Reply by Ali

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Teenagers by my chemical romance 

I was  in my friends car and they stated listening to mcr and I was like damn this shit slaps lol.


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Reply by ₳†⅃ ⍲⟆ ∀₵ꙇ₫

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my parentz played it when i waz little so idk XD but i REALLY started getting into it through "not the american average" i think ?


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Going Under Song by Evanescence. That's the first real song that I can put a name to that actually got me into the scene and I have my elder sister and cousin to thank for that haha 


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Reply by vennie

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black veil brides - knives and pens, used to stream it so often on my wii


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Reply by inmylungs

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ig welcome 2 the black parade by mcr, tho I can't exactly remember :/


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Reply by HEX HAZARDOUS !!

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omggzz this is embarazzing but probs sexting by botdf ;-; 

if not botdf it was p!atd with theres a rsn these tables are numbered or i write sinz not tragedies
:-D


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Reply by vic_zombi3

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welcome to the black parade by mcr and caraphernelia by pierce the veil xP


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Reply by guttergirl

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knives and pens by BVB!


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Reply by eddie

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bullet by hollywood undead. used to feel so edgy listening to it lmao


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Reply by xX★TJ★Xx

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welcome to the black parade by mcr.... still some of the best music I've listened to



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Reply by GLITT3RZ

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Hmm... not sure!! But currently, I really enjoy Breathe Carolina and Millionaires!! Looking into some local artists as well, I'll see how that search goes!!


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Reply by arlo atomickk

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I don't even remember how it happened but I was super into Ghost Town around the age of 10 until I got bullied out of liking them but the one song I remember thinking 'this is emo' to was king for a day :o


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Reply by xxRebellious_Emmaxx

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For me, it was "I'm Not A Vampire" by Falling In Reverse. I was 13 years old at the time when I found a lyric video of that song on a lyric video channel that mostly made lyric videos of Avril Lavigne songs (I was a huge Avril fan at the time) and decided to check it out. Best decision I've ever made.


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Reply by kukoromi_guts

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The first song that really got me into that emo stuff was The Light Behind Your Eyes by MCR
I was 13 as a friend introduced the band to me, I dont have any contact with him today but I´m still thankful for showing me

But back when I first got into Nightcore I already listend to Get Scared and Bring me the Horizon 


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Reply by Hazi

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For me - as far as I remember, Ghost of you and Helena by MCR brought me into this emo'esque culture.

Fun fact, when I got my first access to the internet in 2006 (I was 13 back then), my first website that I visited was MCR's official website. My friends told me there was a game based on Helena's MV. It is still exist but kept on different website so give it a tru. Helena 8-bit game 


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Reply by Sleepyhead

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Mama by MCR. The fisrt MCR song I ever heard. Got me into alll the stuff I'm onto now lol


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