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29th December 2022

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Interesting starting to see people start to “revisit” the years of my young adulthood, particularly in seeing what they get wrong.

So let me be clear, no one in the 2000s was hearing emo when they went out.

There was “let’s do ‘alternative’ again” massified “indie”, 80s revival, and “blog house”/electroclash (white people were maybe listening to rap, at home, and collecting sneakers). To the extent emo had any sort of regular touring scene, it was limited to the midwest. It was something high schoolers listened to. It wasn’t even the high school identity that left some impression on the culture – that was “scene”.

All the emo nights, that’s not a throwback to how the 2000s were. The 2000s were never like that. (If anything, emo night is a replacement for the '90s-era marginal-throwback institution of “goth night”)

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  1. skautism reblogged this from baconmancr
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    having been a high schooler in the '00s, we weren't listening to 'emo' even in DC, where it was invented, unless you...
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  5. plum-soup said: When they talk about “emo throwback” and stuff. It’s why you wouldn’t see jeromes dream on like, an mcr blog that claims to be super into emo. Sorry I’m using jeromes dream as an example a lot because I think they were good and also kind of the archetypal underground emo/screamo band. And like literal screamo cause the guy didn’t use a microphone
  6. plum-soup said: But there was an era of like emotional and edgy pop music back then as punk rock (or at least the corporate rebranding of it) was starting to finally be mainstreamed with stuff like Green Day and Gwen stefani going solo and the offsprings being on the radio and all that. And so there were pop bands like mcr and fall out boy and panic at the disco that started to make a kinda vaguely pop punk influenced slightly edgy slightly emotional sound and that’s the genre of music most ppl on tumblr mean
  7. plum-soup said: Like if you pick out an old video of say, a Jeromes Dream show, they are almost always playing in like a house, dorm room, probably garages, and one time I think they were playing at a fucking boxing gym, like these are the kinda venues underground punk bands play at
  8. plum-soup said: The problem is that people on this website think that when a power pop/pop punk band uses dark imagery and wears eyeliner they count as ‘emo’ (yes I am talking about MCR). So they think that emo was actually a popular genre when it never really was. Both emo and screamo (“real screamo”, “skramz” etc) were both super niche scenes in the early and mid 2000s. Like punk rock but for people who weren’t as cool in high school
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    Oh and mashups. Songs made by mixing two or more previously existing (and recognizable) songs together were absolutely a...