Differences Between Pop Punk and Emo

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1 Pop Punk is Cheerful

Pop Punk bands usually are way more cheerful than emo bands, mainly on their songs that are usually about hanging out with friends or love songs while emo bands are way more self aware and sing about way more personal topics, like suicide

2 Pop Punk is way more Poppy

Some Pop Punk bands are between alt rock or borderline pop, some examples are Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, Blink-182, Paramore, All Time Low and A Day to Remember

3 Emo is Sadder and Edgier

Most of Emo music is way too sad and edgy, especially for being considered pop, some bands with this style are Funeral for a Friend, Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Hawthorne Heights and arguably... My Chemical Romance

4 Emo usually mix more genres

Emo usually use another genres of music like indie (Brand New) Post-Hardcore (Thursday) Metalcore (From Autumn to Ashes), Math (American Football) and even Prog Rock (early Coheed and Cambria) even Pop Punk (Taking Back Sunday). Pop Punk usually uses alt rock or pop

5 Pop Punk bands are way more Fashionable

This is a common stereotype between emo bands, however old school emo bands (Braid, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, The Get Up Kids) either don't care or hate the idea of being so stylish, while pop punk bands like Green Day or Fall Out Boy wear a lot of extravagant clothes

6 The angst

Most of pop punk bands try to create an angst in their songs to relate with the audience, it can go well (Green Day, Fall out Boy, Yellowcard) or wrong (Good Charlotte, Simple Plan). Emo bands don't need to create angst because their whole style and atmosphere already has it, just listen to Taking Back Sunday or Thursday and compare to a song of New Found Glory or Paramore

7 Pop Punk bands are more well known

Almost everyone in the world knows about the existence of bands like Green Day, Paramore and Blink-182, while bands like Brand New, Hawthorne Heights or Funeral For a Friend aren't really well known, the only really popular emo bands would be My Chemical Romance

8 Pop Punk usually gets mainstream

Look at Green Day or Blink-182 for example, they are/were pop acts at some point, also during the early 2000s bands like New Found Glory and The Starting Line were also a big deal. While Taking Back Sunday and Thursday, even if had a hit at one moment, were never as popular as most of pop punk bands

9 Emo gets a Cult follow

And for cult follow I'm not talking like fanboying over the same bands, no I'm talking some serious cult follow, look at Pinkerton by Weezer, is an emo album and after being recgonized as one of the greatest albums from the genre, it got a lot of cult following, same with bands like Alexisonfire, Glassjaw, Texas is the Reason and Mineral, get cult following

10 Pop Punk is more friendly

Now I know that Green Day and Blink-182 use profanity in a lot of their songs, bands like New Found Glory and Paramore are way too friendly and poppy for that, unlike emo which usually uses a lot of profanity and not friendly styles of music like screamo and post-hardcore