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Switched on Pop

The Past, Present, and Future of EMO (with Allegra Frank)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Nate doesn’t know much about the musical style known as emo. Sadly, he was too busy nerding out on jazz during his youthful years to catch the moment. That’s a shame, because emo is experiencing a revival right now - most surprisingly within the world of hip hop. All of which leaves Nate in the awkward position of not really having any idea what’s going on, so thank goodness for some schooling by Vox culture reporter Allegra Frank, who spent her teenage years the right way: getting emotional to the soundtrack of emo. Her first lesson about this endlessly fascinating subculture? It’s way more than just a sound. Songs discussed: Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven Jawbreaker - Do You Still Hate Me?! My Chemical Romance - I’m Not Okay (I Promise) Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We’re Goin Down Panic! At the Disco - I Write Sins not Tragedies Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Denver Mint Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus Jimmy Eat World - The Middle American Football - Never Meant Foxing - Lich My Prince The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Heartbeat in the Brain Check out more of Allegra’s work here: https://www.vox.com/authors/allegra-frank And learn more about Tom Mullen and Washed Out Emo here: http://www.washedupemo.com/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.0

Unicess, keep breaking through.

0:50.0

Welcome to Switched On Pop.

0:51.0

I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.

0:54.0

Hi, Nate.

0:55.0

Hi. Who are you?

0:56.0

I'm not Charlie Harding.

0:58.0

He's still out with his cute baby,

1:00.0

but I am somewhere further down the list of the next best thing.

1:05.0

I'm pretty far down.

1:06.0

If you see in the very small print, I am Allegra Frank.

1:10.0

I'm from Vox.com.

1:12.0

Yeah, thanks for having me.

1:14.0

We've been a fan of your writing for so long.

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