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kontextmaschine:

Interesting starting to see people start to “revisit” the years of my young adulthood, particularly in seeing what they get wrong.

So let me be clear, no one in the 2000s was hearing emo when they went out.

There was “let’s do ‘alternative’ again” massified “indie”, 80s revival, and “blog house”/electroclash (white people were maybe listening to rap, at home, and collecting sneakers). To the extent emo had any sort of regular touring scene, it was limited to the midwest. It was something high schoolers listened to. It wasn’t even the thing that high schoolers listened to that left some impression on the culture \u2013 that was “scene”.

All the emo nights, that’s not a throwback to how the 2000s were. The 2000s were never like that. (If anything, emo night is a replacement for the '90s-era marginal-throwback institution of “goth night”)

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Oh and mashups. Songs made by mixing two or more previously existing (and recognizable) songs together were absolutely a 2000s thing.

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