Is emo and goth the same?

Answer 1

Emo stems from the Washington D.C. Hardcore Punk scene. It is a genre of music pioneered by the band The Rites of Spring. The fashion is based on the 1950's "geeky" type, along with a mix of "Indie Rock" attire.

Goth stands for Gothic Rock, and it is the offspring of Post-Punk, which is the original Punk Rock scene, but with reduced aggression, earning the title "Positive Punk".
Gothic Rock's musical elements are the combination of Post-Punk, Psychedelic Rock, Glam Rock, and Horror Film scores.
Gothic Rock originally was known as "the Batcave sound", after the world's first Goth nightclub called The Batcave, owned by the Gothic Rock group Specimen.
This movement was influential in the development of a fusion of American Punk Rock and English Batcave to form a genre known as Deathrock.
Deathrock was the starting point for a group known as The Misfits, who fused Deathrock with a genre called "Doo-wop" (similar to Surf Punk) and created Horror Punk.

Horror Punk's image was identical to Goth/Deathrock...

Emo influenced Alternative Rock group My Chemical Romance, took upon the image of Horror Punk.

This is where the misconception occurred.

Emo and Goth are extremely different. Absolutely no similarities.
It was just marketed as something "close".

Basicly no!