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- In the early [2000s], bands from cultural hinterlands—Boca Raton, Las Vegas, the suburbs of New Jersey and Illinois, Long Island—took their predecessors’ interest in private emotion and the legacy of punk and added a new ingredient: pop ambition. There was fast, percussive guitar strumming; earworm riffs; frenetic drumming; and melodies full of stadium-ready sing-along moments, delivered in a nasal style that flirted with whining and sometimes crossed over into yelling. (en)
- The one fact that no one seems to debate − or at least debate that loudly − is that emo emerged from hardcore. (en)
- Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems to solely mean different things to different people − like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits. [...] The word has survived and flourished in three decades, two milleniums, and two Bush administrations. [...] It's older than most of its fans. It's been a source of pride, a target of derision, a mark of confusion, and a sign of the times. It's been the next big thing twice, [and] the current big thing once. And yet, not only can no one agree on what it means, [but] there is not now, nor has there ever been, a single major band that admits to being emo. Not one. (en)
- This is such a funny time... I think just because so much of this language, it's like a youth code where heavy topics like suicide, depression, self-harm, things like that were like being grappled with in the music, but very rarely in a way that glorified it... Their music was a way out of it, or offering hope — a way that people could process these things and deal with it. (en)
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- Chris Payne, author of Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion, as quoted by Amelia Eqbal of CBC https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/5-things-we-learned-about-the-legacy-of-emo-music-from-author-chris-payne-1.6881146 (en)
- Peter C. Baker of The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-emo-conquered-the-mainstream (en)
- Theo Cateforis of Grove Music Dictionary https://www-oxfordmusiconline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002240803?rskey=iJIYyI&result=1 (en)
- Music critic Andy Greenwald in the book Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo. . St. Martins Griffin. pp. 1-2. (en)
- Music critic Andy Greenwald, in the book Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo (en)
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