Now that everyone's been obsessed with the '90s for a couple of years now, it means that the mid-00s are officially "uncool." They're still too recent that there's not yet any nostalgic caché and yet far enough away that the styles look, ten years later, embarrassingly irrelevant. There are any number of trends and labels you could pick on -- Uggs, Von Dutch, metrosexuals -- but, for our money, there probably was no more regrettable fashion moment than the emo scene. (And by no means are we leaving ourselves off the hook -- it was pretty hard to resist the charms of flat-ironed, side-swept bangs, guyliner and lip piercings back in the day.) Now that the majority of our favorite "post-punk" rockers are well into their '30s, we had a hankering to see what these dudes (and a few ladies) look like now. See which of your favorite Top 40 emo bands successfully transitioned into the 2010s and which ones seem like they're stuck in a 2004 time capsule (we're looking at you All Time Low).
Paramore
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Fall Out Boy
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Panic! At the Disco
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All American Rejects
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Saves the Day
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The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
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Simple Plan
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Good Charlotte
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Taking Back Sunday
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Dashboard Confessional
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Brand New
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All Time Low
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Plain White T's
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Simple Plan
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Dashboard ConfessionalThen
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