Who else still holds a (black) candle for the halcyon days of Drive-Thru Records? Oh, it was a simpler time. Waiting patiently by the mailbox for your latest Interpunk package to arrive. Scouring the liner notes of Dashboard Confessional‘s newest CD to find out which other bands they thanked (The Movielife! The Early November! The Anniversary!). Logging on to band forums or livejournal or makeoutclub and playing endless hours of emogame. It was the best of times, it was the darkest of times.
Through all of it, the formula for early 2000s emo was pretty simple: soft/loud dynamic music with expressive and emotive lyrics that instantly became whiny and godawful in retrospect when you turned 23.
As it turns out, those fuckboy-ish lyrics have a fair bit in common with the unmistakable tweeting style of one Donald J. Trump.
Trump’s rage-tweets, sent in bursts in the middle of the night at targets that have slighted him in any way at all no matter how petty, have long been the subject of ridicule and parody. But now, perhaps, we have the perfect vessel for them: early-2000s emo.
Now-certified geniuses Super Deluxe took a whole bunch of twitterings and set them to a tune so perfectly emo that three 2004 teens with snake bite lip rings have already accused it of selling out.
It’s so perfectly emo it’s already got shirts for sale in Hot Topic.
It’s so perfectly emo it just put you in its MySpace Top 8.
You get the picture.
OUT. BLOODY. STANDING.
Source: Facebook.
