2025 Mix 9: Mid-aughts confessional lives, democracy dies(?), indie from all over stays about the same, Scandinavians get goofy, and schmaltz works its one-in-a-hundred magic
I think understanding scene emo was probably a net disadvantage in tracking what happened to it after 2004, just like looking for rock’s future on the rock charts. The mid-aughts teenpop artists I liked adored emo and Taylor Swift is extremely Dashboard Confessional coded!
Picking up from last week's playlist, have you listened to Nayomi's full album (ep?) AURAH? It's hard to pull off this kind of extremely relaxed hip-hop for 24 minutes without fading into the background, but she manages it.
I'm thinking of Jess Hooper's 2004 essay on emo, Where The Girls Aren't, reading this
I think understanding scene emo was probably a net disadvantage in tracking what happened to it after 2004, just like looking for rock’s future on the rock charts. The mid-aughts teenpop artists I liked adored emo and Taylor Swift is extremely Dashboard Confessional coded!
(My problem is that I loathed emo as a teenager so I never actually learned much about it)
Don’t think you need to even go too deep on this line of thought since you have Evanescence on one side of the timeline and Paramore on the other.
Me too, but then I find music I like being called post-emo trap and artists I respect citing mcr so...
This is 2006, VERY Taylor-coded I think
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3XSZsQUqJA&pp=ygUdSm9hbm5hIHNjcmVhbWluZyBpbmZpZGVsaXRpZXM%3D
Picking up from last week's playlist, have you listened to Nayomi's full album (ep?) AURAH? It's hard to pull off this kind of extremely relaxed hip-hop for 24 minutes without fading into the background, but she manages it.
Haven’t listened yet but will remedy this!