Am I a 27 year old emo kid?
God mom, it was never a phase!
If you think for a second that I haven't seen AT LEAST one emo band on tour this year, you'd be dead wrong. I literally saw Fall Out Boy for the 6th time in July. I saw Mayday Parade, Paramore, The Maine.....I'm sure there's more.
But reading this book was insane.
It jumps right into the emo culture of the 90's.
While I didn't really know a lot of those bands, I was excited to learn about the guys who literally paved the way for modern emo culture. To kick it up a notch, I downloaded every single band that was mentioned and found SO MANY that I am now obsessed with. The basics, like Dashboard Confessional, The Used, Brand New were already on my radar. But then bands like Thursday, Something Corporate, and Silent Majority started infiltrating my playlists.
But my heart belongs in 2005.
This era is aptly referred to as the emo boom.
It was the height of Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at The Disco, Paramore, and countless others. This was when I entered my emo phase and just.....never left.
The connections that all of these guys have and continue to have is absolutely remarkable. I learned new things about bands that I've been listening to for nearly two decades. Seeing how the culture grew and became this absolute craze blows my mind. Hearing how they started bands, learning about the diss tracks, the drama, the love, the absolute friendship that came from this group. They created something that made my little emo heart feel seen. That's what they did for me.
Looking for books written by bands mentioned in this book?