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Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.
Emo pop is a fusion genre of emo with pop-punk, pop music, or both. The genre developed during the 1990s with it gaining substantial commercial success in the 2000s. The following is a list of artists who play that style in alphabetical order.
Scene entered popular culture following the mainstream exposure of the emo subculture, indie pop, pop punk, and hip hop in the mid 2000s. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] The scene subculture is considered by some to have developed directly from the emo subculture and thus the two are often compared. [ 36 ]
Gen X couples and groups of millennial women on a girls' night out were in line, too. ... The pop punk/emo genre crossed into the musical mainstream in the mid-2000s, Petracca and Freed say, and ...
Emo pop (or emo pop punk) is a subgenre of emo known for its pop music influences, more concise songs and hook-filled choruses. [99] AllMusic describes emo pop as blending "youthful angst " with "slick production" and mainstream appeal, using "high-pitched melodies , rhythmic guitars, and lyrics concerning adolescence , relationships, and ...
Emo, whose participants are called emo kids or emos, is a subculture which began in the United States in the 1990s. [1] Based around emo music, the subculture formed in the genre's mid-1990s San Diego scene, where participants were derisively called Spock rock due to their distinctive straight, black haircuts.
Selene Kapsaski (edited by Jeremy Richey), Welcome to Jonestown: Southern Ontario Gothic, Art Decades, 2015, ISBN 1511568984; Robert Kirby and David Kelly, eds., Boy Trouble, Boy Trouble Books, 2004, ISBN 0-9748855-0-9; Robert Kirby and David Kelly, eds., The Book of Boy Trouble 2: Born to Trouble, Green Candy Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-931160-65-0
Musically, Save the World, Lose the Girl has been described as pop punk, with elements of emo, [7] [8] drawing comparison to MxPx, [8] Jawbreaker and the Ataris. [9] All of the music was credited to the band, while Saporta wrote almost all of the lyrics with the exception: "Direction" (co-written with Rann), "Come On" (co-written with Hitt) and "Such a Person" (portion of lyrics from Russ ...