Unless you've been living under a rock, it doesn't take being a music expert to know that pop-punk and emo have had a resurgence in the past few years. This is apparently news to CBS Mornings, which aired a delightfully ill-informed segment on "the return of emo music" yesterday (April 12).
"It was frequently an escape for teens who didn't fit in," the segment begins, before pop star Demi Lovato talks about "always being an emo kid at heart," despite their music really only being pop-rock at its heaviest.
"I grew up listening to this music, so I wanted to go back to my roots," they said. "Whether you're going through depression, or you're having fun with your friends, there's so many emotions that's in this music. I think that this generation is hungry for [an emo resurgence]."
Throughout the segment, CBS pulls examples from Paramore to Panic! at the Disco to Dashboard Confessional to illustrate the genre — which is fine. However, their references aren't always so apt, as they refer to Avril Lavigne as an "emo scene queen" — a phrase that sounds like something your concerned mom would say after finding your Myspace page in 2006.
At least the segment illustrates that emo wasn't only about the music: "Fashion is still part of the emo identity, only now, geek is chic," the voiceover says at one point, whatever that means. One of the creators of the Emo Nite party series also notes that the culture has gone mainstream, making all the earlier parts about "not fitting in" a moot point.
We also get a few juicy moments, including Lavigne being referred to as Mod Sun's "frequent collaborator" (the pair broke up last month, and Lavigne is currently dating Tyga), a woman who's still salty that she was the only one at her high school with purple hair and more.
Watch the fever dream of a segment below.
"It was frequently an escape for teens who didn't fit in," the segment begins, before pop star Demi Lovato talks about "always being an emo kid at heart," despite their music really only being pop-rock at its heaviest.
"I grew up listening to this music, so I wanted to go back to my roots," they said. "Whether you're going through depression, or you're having fun with your friends, there's so many emotions that's in this music. I think that this generation is hungry for [an emo resurgence]."
Throughout the segment, CBS pulls examples from Paramore to Panic! at the Disco to Dashboard Confessional to illustrate the genre — which is fine. However, their references aren't always so apt, as they refer to Avril Lavigne as an "emo scene queen" — a phrase that sounds like something your concerned mom would say after finding your Myspace page in 2006.
At least the segment illustrates that emo wasn't only about the music: "Fashion is still part of the emo identity, only now, geek is chic," the voiceover says at one point, whatever that means. One of the creators of the Emo Nite party series also notes that the culture has gone mainstream, making all the earlier parts about "not fitting in" a moot point.
We also get a few juicy moments, including Lavigne being referred to as Mod Sun's "frequent collaborator" (the pair broke up last month, and Lavigne is currently dating Tyga), a woman who's still salty that she was the only one at her high school with purple hair and more.
Watch the fever dream of a segment below.
