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title: "When Emo Conquered the Mainstream"
date: "2023-07-30T21:40-08:00"
tags: ["music"]
description: "Sometime in the eighties, the story goes—and every musical genre is ultimately a story—a few bands in America’s hypermasculine hardcore-punk scene started making music with poetic, emotionally vulnerable lyrics, and people called this music “emo,” as in “emocore,” as in “emotional hardcore."
link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-emo-conquered-the-mainstream
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