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Emo pop
Other namesEmo pop-punk
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Emo pop (alternatively typeset with a hyphen, also known as emo pop-punk and pop-emo) is a fusion genre combining emo with pop-punk, pop music, or both.[1] Emo pop features a musical style with more concise composition and hook-filled choruses. Emo pop has its origins in the 1990s with bands like Jimmy Eat World, the Get Up Kids, Weezer and the Promise Ring. The genre entered the mainstream in the early 2000s with Jimmy Eat World's breakthrough album Bleed American, which included its song "The Middle". Other emo pop bands that achieved mainstream success throughout the decade included Fall Out Boy, the All-American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco and Paramore. The popularity of emo pop declined in the 2010s, with some prominent artists in the genre either disbanding or abandoning the emo pop style.

Characteristics

Emo pop is a fusion between emo and pop-punk.[2] AllMusic describes emo pop as blending "youthful angst" with "slick production" and mainstream appeal, using "high-pitched melodies, rhythmic guitars, and confessional lyrics concerning adolescence, relationships, and heartbreak."[3] MasterClass describes emo pop as featuring "soaring vocals and upbeat songs with melancholy lyrics."[4] During the 2000s, emo pop artists would fuse the "lyrical and visual elements of emo with radio-friendly sonics of pop-punk."[5] Emo pop music is notably more commercially viable than other styles of emo due to its minimal influences from indie rock and hardcore punk,[6] and less extreme use of loud/soft dynamics.[7] This has resulted in a sound comparable to boy band pop.[1]

History

Origins (1990s)

Emo pop was influenced by emo and pop-punk bands in the early 1990s such as Californian bands Samiam and Jawbreaker.[8] Jawbreaker has influenced future mainstream emo pop bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance.[9][10] Pop-punk band Blink-182 has been a very big influence on emo pop bands.[11] The new generation of emo fans view the Blink-182 sound as "hugely influential,"[12] with James Montgomery writing, "[...] without them, there'd be no Fall Out Boy, no Paramore, or no Fueled by Ramen Records."[11]

Emo pop band The Get Up Kids performing at the Bowery Ballroom in 2000

Emo pop truly began during the mid-to-late 1990s with bands like

Top Heatseekers chart.[21]

Mainstream popularity (2000s)

Shake It" reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.[1][32] Also in 2008, You Me at Six released their debut album Take Off Your Colours, which had been described by AllMusic's Jon O'Brien as "follow[ing] the "emo-pop for dummies"' handbook word-for-word."[33] The album would later be certified gold in the UK.[34] In 2009 All Time Low released their third studio album Nothing Personal which debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200. AllMusic states that the album "helped make All Time Low one of the top emo-pop acts in the business".[35]

Decline in popularity (2010s)

Since the early 2010s, emo pop has seen a decrease in mainstream success. While a few 2000s emo pop bands remain popular, some of them have ventured on to different sounds and aesthetics outside of the genre. Emo pop bands

synthpop.[43] Fall Out Boy went on hiatus from 2009 to 2013 but returned with a new sound on their album Save Rock and Roll. The album has characteristics of pop music,[44] alternative rock,[45] and pop rock.[45][46] Paramore ventured away from their emo pop sound with their self-titled album (2013) which contains influences of power pop,[47] pop rock[48] and new wave.[49] Despite the genre’s decrease in popularity, a number of new emo pop bands have garnered minor popularity and fanbases in the 2010s, including Sorority Noise,[50] Real Friends,[51] Boston Manor[52] and Moose Blood.[53][54]

See also

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