2. Pop-Rock The past decade has been a really weird one for pop and rock music in general, but no doubt that emo has had a huge bearing on it. It's wrong for the most part to call what My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy did emo; those bands mostly had little to do with the purest origins of the genre. Yet they were still indebted to it in their own ways.

Now their influence lives on in much of the mainstream rock and pop music we hear today. Even Fall Out Boy is back on top melding their own distinct sound with pop music, but without emo and hardcore, they would have never existed in the first place. In this small way, emo still proliferates in the mainstream arena.

1. Straight Edge Straight edge as a movement emerged in the exact same vein as emo. In fact, it was invented by the same guy who basically invented emo: Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi. As movements, the two are intrinsically linked; one would have probably never existed without the other.

Today, straight edge as a movement still exists and is alive and well throughout even the mainstream. Take a look at former WWE champion CM Punk, a huge proponent of straight edge as a lifestyle. It just goes to show the way these movements have inspired and influenced generations of listeners since their beginnings in the mid-'80s.

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