September Club

What started as a sub-genre of hardcore punk in the mid-1980s has become a massive cultural force. Emo is no longer music, it’s an adjective. A hashtag. An insult. A subreddit. It has carried us all the way from basement shows to the pop charts, to a generation of emo rappers, and now into a strange new frontier of homogenization, where all music is every genre simultaneously; emo is punk and pop and rap and country.

Emo has spread out like the roots of a tree, all over and simultaneous. Massive commercialization and co-option exists alongside a new wave of artists finding meaning in the genre’s original values, with seemingly no acknowledgement of each other.

Which begs the question… Does the oak tree recognize the acorn?

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