Top 10 Songs People Call "Emo" that Aren't

These songs aren't emo and emo's a punk subgenre so eh.
The Top Ten
1 Numb - Linkin Park

Numb isn't emo, and Linkin Park isn't an emo song. Trust me, I love Linkin Park, but they aren't emo

No offense, but pretty much every song on this list is extremely emo.

There is nothing emo like about this song.

Metal, not emo.

2 Bring Me to Life - Evanescence

When people call this song "edgy" or emo it does get old.

Ita Gothic not Emo

3 Pain - Three Days Grace

Again this song does not qualify as emo.

Not emo. It's about Drugs not emotions

Didn't really find it emo...

4 Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

This literally is the emo anthem... it's emo. My Chemical Romance is the most classic emo band, get it right.

Not really all that emo like if anything I'm Not Okay is their only song that comes close to emo.

I like this song, and it's emo. No way around it.

5 Crawling - Linkin Park

I don't need to explain this one.

6 Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz

Emo is a subculture, not just a genre, most of these songs are enjoyed by the subculture but this song is enjoyed by pretty much everyone.

Jesus Christ, how many people have called me emo for liking Gorillas. How in hell is Gorillas emo?

How on earth does anyone think this is emo. This is an alternative songs by an alternative band.

7 American Idiot - Green Day

Green Day is pop punk, not emo.

8 Welcome to My Life - Simple Plan

It's Pop-Punk not emo.

9 I Hate Everything About You - Three Days Grace

Alternative Rock no where near Emo.

How is this emo?

10 Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me) - Simple Plan
The Contenders
11 Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day

There is nothing emo about this song.

12 In the End - Linkin Park
13 Blurry - Puddle of Mudd

Post-Grunge not emo at all.

14 Broken - Seether & Amy Lee
15 Pity Party - Melanie Martinez
16 Fix You - Coldplay
17 Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots

Nah this is somewhat emo.

18 Gives You Hell - The All American Rejects
19 Car Radio - Twenty One Pilots
20 Paranoid Android - Radiohead
21 Suicide Club - Blood on the Dance Floor
22 The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin

Their is nothing emo about this song or Breaking Benjamin they're Alternative Rock;

23 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
24 One More Light - Linkin Park
25 Cold - Crossfade

Song title explains it's self enough said.

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