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The emo scene and MySpace formed a connected loop. As one grew, so did the other. The more people who joined the site, the more they saw emo bands everywhere they looked, the more emo fans who ...
Taylor Swift is just going to have to keep shaking off the haters, because one of her lyrics was just called "peak MySpace ...
So, what was Myspace, exactly? Well, your profile page was like an expression of your total personality. People chatted on forums, listened to music, published emo blog posts and even dressed it a ...
In “Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music,” author Michael ... and more remember the emo gold rush of the early 2000s. Emo. It even sounds goofy to say it out loud, doesn’t it?
Social media is an addiction that feels inescapable. As much as you want to delete the app and reintegrate into a meaningful ...
as MySpace and LiveJournal were remaking the social hierarchies of youth culture, a crushing wave surged into mainstream view. The aesthetic movement that history would designate as emo's third ...
MySpace has confirmed that it has lost millions ... While some won’t mind the deletion of millions of emo songs and mirror-shots from some of the internet’s earliest influencers, it certainly ...
MySpace arose just as The Strokes and various ... new influencers such as Pitchfork—for a taciturn approach to rock. “Emo was sort of a reaction to that,” the singer Norman Brannon told ...
One of MySpace’s flagship features was the Top 8 ... you would cry for days (and then use the ensuing emo mirror selfie as your profile pic). But if you saw that your own profile had made ...
Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting has been featured across all ...
But at Emo Night Brooklyn, crowds of slowly graying ... such as “Who here had a Myspace account?” Half the room may or may not have known the anxiety of picking the right song lyric for ...
Perhaps more significantly, those pre-Myspace days also taught the children of Big Emo how to perform their interiority for one another in digital anonymity — something like training wheels for ...