DECEMBER 19 2019 – NATIONAL EMO DAY with Cory Barringer

HAPPY NATIONAL EMO DAY! ... I guess join us, as we talk about emo music or whatever. Do what you want, I don't feel good today. Today I guess we're celebrating with a super cool person and we're surprised he even noticed us, comedian and musician Cory Barringer (Twitter: @HunkyCory / Instagram: HunkyCory / The Kelps on Bandcamp)!! LET'S PARTY!!

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SHOW NOTES

• History/Fun facts about the topic
• • Definition and history--What exactly is emo, you ask?
    • To start, Dictionary.com gives a two-part definition of emo as a noun
      • 1. A type of guitar-based music developed from emocore but having a softer, pop, or mainstream sound
      • 2. A fan of emo, especially a person who is overly sensitive and full of angst or adopts a certain style characterized by dyed black hair, tight t-shirts and jeans
    • Wikipedia further defines Emo as “a rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics.” 
    • Urban Dictionary has over 1400 entries for the definition of emo, with the top entry outlining three applications of the word as: an emotional person, a style, and a genre of music, from user “One of the few people who will say what the labels are instead of my opinion on them” in February 2008. This was their only submission to the site
    • According to NME, emo might be “music’s dirtiest word,” one that “attracts scorn like few others.” 
    • As a genre, It emerged as a style of post-hardcore from the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement in Washington DC, where it was known as ‘emotional or emotive hardcore’ or ‘emocore’.”
    • The origin of the term itself is hard to pin down, though evidence shows that it was coined in 1985. Some attribute its birth to a 1985 Thrasher article in which Embrace and other Washington DC bands were referred to as “emo-core,” while others claim that Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye used it self-mockingly in a magazine, and yet other people give credit to an audience member at an Embrace show, who shouted as an insult that the band was “emocore.”
    • Either way, the general consensus is that the term was intended as an insult from the very beginning, and none of the flagship bands wanted anything to do it
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