Emo Music

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at emo music in the United States, from its origins to where it is today. Rob presents David with a lesson in emo bands and reaches out to them to ask whether they consider themselves emo or not. David plays some of his old emo reporting from back in New Zealand in the mid 00s, before attending an infamous Emo Night event in LA where he talks to founders Morgan Freed and T.J. Petracca. They also interview Vic Fuentes from Pierce the Veil and discuss the war between punks and emos that broke out in Mexico City in 2008. Email us: [email protected] Merch: www.flightlessbirdpod.com LINKS: Rob’s emo playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7zwXnoiAe2Ja18nhvnSsCY?si=e5c8ca80a9a2434eTheme song performance: Nick Thomas of The Spill Canvas https://www.thespillcanvas.net In regards to last week’s Autism episode, some other spicy writing from David: - Prosopagnosia - face blindness: https://www.webworm.co/p/superrecogniser and https://www.webworm.co/p/prosopagnosia - Aphantasia: https://www.webworm.co/p/aphantasia - Telepathic Children Do Not Exist: https://www.webworm.co/p/telepathytapes - My memory and ADHD: https://www.webworm.co/p/memoryworms Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello David. Hi, Rosabel. How are you? I'm good. How are you?
0:08.7	I'm good. What's the weather like in New Zealand today?
0:11.5	It's actually so sunny today. It's nice because as you may or may not know, we had a lot of rain recently.
0:18.6	Oh, that's so good. It's actually almost the opposite to today's topic
0:22.1	being sunny because we are looking at emo and emo's gray and emotional and down. Yeah, but even an
0:32.7	emo can move through the world on a sunny day in their own emo way. This is true.
0:38.3	I feel like you don't often see them on a sunny day, but I guess you don't see many of them around at all these days.
0:42.3	Yeah, but maybe that's just about where you're going.
0:46.3	Maybe you're not going to the emo hang spots, you know.
0:49.3	When I say emo, what comes to mind for you?
0:52.3	Because I know in New Zealand we had a lot of emo
0:55.0	sort of a thing in the early 2000s, right? Yeah, I guess it's the fringe, isn't it? That classic
1:01.2	emo fringe and a lip piercing. My chemical romance, is that like an emo band? Definitely, yeah,
1:08.4	that was emo. I feel like you had a bit of a fringe going on at one point.
1:12.9	That's just my fashion. That's not emo. That's just my haircut.
1:18.4	I'm David Farrier, and New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
1:24.7	Now, growing up in New Zealand, there was this time in the mid-2000s when a certain American
1:28.8	music genre seemed to get very, very big.
1:32.3	If I remember correctly, it was led by bands like My Chemical Romance and Panic at the Disco,
1:37.0	Fallout Boy, and Paramour.
1:39.1	On every street corner, down every alleyway, there also seemed to be a teenager with a giant
1:43.5	black fringe covering
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