Emo music gets its flowers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
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Summary
A new exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame focuses on Hopeless Records and its history.
The independent record label has had an impressive roster over the last 30 years, featuring some of pop punk and emo music's biggest names from Sum 41 to All Time Low to Avenged Sevenfold.
NPR's Juana Summers travels to Cleveland, Ohio to visit the exhibit and dives into why emo music remains relevant today.
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| 0:00.0 | Over the last several decades emo music has experienced moments of mainstream popularity. Dashmore |
| 0:07.0 | Confessional won of BMA in 2002. |
| 0:09.2 | And the MTV 2.V. 2 Award goes to. |
| 0:15.6 | You want it? |
| 0:16.6 | Oh, dashboard confession. |
| 0:19.6 | Screaming in Fidelity! And more recently, Paramore won two Grammys in 2024. |
| 0:27.0 | And the Grammy goes to... |
| 0:30.0 | This is why! |
| 0:32.0 | Parramore! But... This is why, power more. |
| 0:34.0 | But the vast majority of the scene has always existed in a more under the radar way, |
| 0:39.0 | so much so that it can be easy to wonder if emo is even still relevant in 2024. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, if you take the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an authority, |
| 0:48.0 | the answer is a new exhibit featuring Hopeless Records. |
| 0:59.1 | The independent record label has had an impressive roster over the last 30 years, |
| 1:03.7 | featuring some of Pop Punk and Emo Music's biggest names |
| 1:06.8 | from Some 41. |
| 1:08.1 | Because I'm in to deep and I'm trying to keep up above in my to Yellow Card. |
| 1:14.3 | Park. |
| 1:15.3 | There's a place off Ocean Avenue where I used to sit and talk with you. |
| 1:20.3 | Twenty-year-old Haley Cronin is an assistant curator at the Rock Hall. |
| 1:24.3 | She was the main researcher on the exhibit for Hopeless. |
| 1:27.2 | Cronin says she wants people who walk through the exhibit |
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