Embedded in genre : sadboy, a collaborative release by rappers MGK and Trippie Redd, is an accidental lesson in what once made the collision of rap and pop-punk so electrifying.

Emo is dead; long live emo. Judith Fathallah , Outreach and Research Associate, Lancaster University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

People have argued for decades over what emo really means, and 2021’s wave might seem to stretch the word to definitional incoherence.Rodrigo’s sing-along diaries don’t sound much like Lil ...