I guess where MGK doesn't really grab me the way the bands he's replicating did, is that I genuinely feel like MGK would have called me the f-slur in high school and proceeded to shove me in a locker. I'm being a bit facetious, but you get my point. The vibes he puts off are almost comically high school bully. Maybe I'm starry eyed, but I never felt that way from Bert or Gerard or half the big bands in the scene. There are bands from that time that I feel were also probably problematic in the same way, but at least at the time, no one was giving them praise for bringing something back that never left to begin with. Also unironically I think the person innovating the most in emo rn is Jane Remover. That's true 5th wave if ever I heard it.
Born in ‘05 and still think new wave emo isn’t as good as the glory years, even if it came out just before I was born.
I guess where MGK doesn't really grab me the way the bands he's replicating did, is that I genuinely feel like MGK would have called me the f-slur in high school and proceeded to shove me in a locker. I'm being a bit facetious, but you get my point. The vibes he puts off are almost comically high school bully. Maybe I'm starry eyed, but I never felt that way from Bert or Gerard or half the big bands in the scene. There are bands from that time that I feel were also probably problematic in the same way, but at least at the time, no one was giving them praise for bringing something back that never left to begin with.
Also unironically I think the person innovating the most in emo rn is Jane Remover. That's true 5th wave if ever I heard it.
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