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a genre that turned crying in your room into a stadium-sized art form
means A style of rock music marked by confessional, emotionally raw lyrics — and, by extension, the fashion and mood (dark fringe, eyeliner, introspective melancholy) associated with its fans.
from Short for "emotional," or more precisely "emotional hardcore" (sometimes "emocore"), a label that grew out of the 1980s hardcore punk scene in Washington, D.C. — where bands began pouring personal anguish into music that punk had kept tough and political. The clipped "emo" took off in later decades as the sound, and the subculture around it, spread.
- origin
- shortened from emotional hardcore, born in 1980s DC
- bangs
- the side-swept fringe became a generational identity card
- my chem
- sold over 8 million albums of beautiful despair
- revival
- emo nights now pack adult bars worldwide
- misnomer
- early scene bands hated the label entirely
my chemical romance — band formed in 2001, defined emo with albums like the black parade
brand new — long island emo band (1998-2018) with cult following for deja entendu
dashboard confessional — chris carrabba's solo project that popularized emo in early 2000s
warped tour — annual festival (1995-2018) that was epicenter of emo music culture