let this world explode

band blog im charlie, 24 yo enby emo really wasnt a phase

[stump-wentz]

i implore you all to remember that fall out boy wouldnt exist without joe biden

pete wentz’s parents met working on one of his first campaigns

[stump-wentz]

i find it interesting how quickly we forgot about the political and specifically anti-war the emo movement actually was. 50% of emo bands first albums are explicitly about 9/11. they go on to address military service, ptsd, school shootings...

like it really wasnt so much “im sad bc sad” as “you have soiled our childhoods with violence and we will not allow you to ignore or forget it”

[gritty4lyf]

I very much believe emo happened when it did because it was a bunch of teens and young people who came of thinking age at the exact moment they saw 9/11 on television, then watched, powerless, as a world fractured around them. The largest protest ever in the Uk happened to stop the Iraq war was millions of teenagers first experience of activism and it achieved nothing. A lot of youthful optimism was lost at that moment. It was so easy to write off emo as self indulgent teenagers being sad about break ups but?? Where was that?? I'm not saying all emo was good because it was mainly made by young people muddling through and occasionally hitting on gold. It's sometimes (often) clumsy and clunky but it's real and authentic and cathartic. But like what about the album American Idiot is not a deeply ambitious attempt and culmination of a decade's worth of albums to make sense of a working man's expedience of being exploited by a cruel military in an unjust war? What about literally any AFI album is not a primal scream against the idea of quietly doing capitalism when there isn't something deeply fucked about the world, knowing that you're powerless to change it. And also. MCR. I'm just talking about the biggest names, but this is at every layer, until the moment that music execs worked out they could make money out of it and started producing their own emo darlings while stripping out all the anti military, anti capitalist feral rage in exchange for "I'm just kinda sad but dw not in a depressed way just an edgy way"

[stump-wentz]

this is the best response to this post ive seen, you’re exactly right

[hesgotasoulvoice]

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[myhartotho-deactivated20181111]

[dailywilliams]

HAYLEY WILLIAMS.

NPR / 2020 > ph. Lindsey Byrnes.

[flyingtentacledlampfucker-deact]

any mention of black lives matter has disappeared off my dashboard so i thought y'all might want to know that police stormed a peaceful vigil in memory of elijah mcclain, attacking mourners with pepper spray. families were there. children were affected. this movement isnt over just because it's no longer trendy.

[stump-wentz]

this is in my hometown and its absolutely heartbreaking. people were literally playing violins. mourning. that’s it. when police attacked, attendees were still playing music, and had started chanting “why are you in riot gear? i dont see no riot here”

[taylorisapuppy]

It’s such a cold, cold world and I can’t get out…

[juliaroselotusviolet]

xxx

[kimmywilks]

Fall Out Boy for 1883 Magazine 📸Stephanie YT

[geekgirl78]

[carpalstunnel-deactivated202008]

Paramore Live at BNH Pavilion (6/20/18)

[stump-wentz]

i find it interesting how quickly we forgot about the political and specifically anti-war the emo movement actually was. 50% of emo bands first albums are explicitly about 9/11. they go on to address military service, ptsd, school shootings...

like it really wasnt so much “im sad bc sad” as “you have soiled our childhoods with violence and we will not allow you to ignore or forget it”

[bookboi2023]

That they used their stage time to share messages of support and anti-violence, did their damndest to keep us alive, wrote songs about how much discrimination against people based on mental illness furthers the issue. Not to mention incredibly supportive of the LGBT+ community, especially for the time.

[roach-works]

it’s annoying to see people wondering why emo is back again when the american president is once again a smugly idiotic criminal, the rest of the world seems to be cheerfully dissolving into fascist regimes along with us, and the potential threat of nuclear apocalypse presents a spicy alternative to the guaranteed ruin of global warming, while all the guys in charge are doing about it is getting rich fast off our misery

it’s like i’m fourteen again except this time all my joints hurt. if gen z wants to tear shit up, have stupid hair, and listen to gerard way, i’m all for it. 

[trollslanda]

I'm 30.

I remember being an angry punk/grunge/metal head and breathing in Michael Moore documentaries and books as gospel. I found the emo bands much later than everyone else and I felt a bit sad about that. Like, it was okay to not be just angry, it was alright to be sad. And there was a lot more hope in it too.

I came home from school, 11 years old, and watched the towers falling in real time. I remember my mother crying. I remember the wars that followed, the way that Europe closed its borders. I remember the refugees and the feeling of hopelessness. Saddam Hussein, the supposed weapons of mass destruction.

I remember a time when George Bush was the devil, and we were sure it wouldn't get worse than that in our time. I cried when Trump won.

And I'm not even American. I can't imagine what it must have felt like, and still does.

[tyork]

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[buwans]

STREAM PETALS FOR ARMOR 🌺

[fullofbugs84uy894ujui9]

reminder that this blog, while not politically focused, supports BLM. bootlickers and racists aren’t welcome here, and never will be.

[g-r-u-d-g-3-s]

[half-doomed]

Dead Horse - Hayley Williams