I'm not saying that staying true to a genre goes along with staying underground, but a majority of the bands that actually represent emo remain underground because they don't have the advertising to appeal to the majority of the public. They aren't marketable. As time goes on, genre's will evolve, but what is advertised currently as emo doesn't even share characteristics with it's origins. It's made up by a bunch of people who had no understanding of it to begin with.
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