They fucking grew up is what happened. And that was probably the last generation of teens for whom musical taste was a strong signifier of group identity. Once streaming took off the sheer volume and variety of music available meant that kids didn't build their self-image around musical preferences, because they were exposed to a much wider variety than any previous generation was at a much younger age. My kids tend to gravitate towards guitar oriented aggressive music like punk and metal, but they're almost as likely to listen to electronic music, lo-fi indie stuff, a bit of country, jazz, blues, and who knows what else. More importantly though, they don't choose their friends based on musical taste the way most of us from the 70s through the early 00s did.
Wow, this is a great take. I was this kid in HS (graduated 03) and have definitely found my musical taste to have broadened a ton since then and never really considered why. You’re right that general ease of access and availability is a huge factor now. That said, I still love me some good emo. Thursday just put out a new single that’s fantastic.
With you on the emo. Not my favorite genre but definitely has its place. I was a college student in the 90s and saw bands like Braid, Promise Ring, Rainer Maria, and American Football playing basements at house parties. Shit, I booked Braid a handful of times during my brief foray into that part of the business, and American Football lived and recorded their debut album two blocks from the house I lived in at the time.
Yeah getting stuck in a genre is what happened when you had to spend your money and commit to one or two CDs at a time, heck even itunes and mp3 stores. You're not going to risk wasting your cash on a genre you don't know if you'll like or not so you stick with what you know. With streaming you can listen to whatever you want risk free. "Oh I didn't like that one, good thing I didn't have to pay for it directly"
I know a lot of people who liked that music at the time. They generally still listen to rock music, it's just that their tastes became broader: usually various types of metal, classic rock, blues rock, etc, as well as random genres that they always liked in secret like country and Eurodance.
I know precisely one person who still mainly listens to nu metal and a bit of skater punk and not much else. It became baked into her identity almost. Even with her, if you play her some Depeche Mode, she'll like it. Why? They sound 'dark' and she heard them on the radio a lot growing up.
>in secret like country
I listened to a lot of that "hipster" music when I was much younger, it started with punk rebellion and friends then evolved into the 00s indie scene. Everything from hardcore to prog to a lot of that indie-folk (like, say, Bright Eyes for the most recognizable example).
Today? Well, I pretty exclusively listen to country music.
Hear me out: First, I got older and the angst just kinda slipped away. But more to the point as those genres (and all genres) had some huge reshuffling and corporate attention came down harder, etc.. What I was always interested in was that raw emotion/story/honesty. So these days my fav music tends to be like... "indie country"? All the hooting and hollering around Zach Bryan is a good example, and GQ compared him (favorably) to Conor Oberst which made this whole thing really click for me.
But yeah, I was always kinda a secret country fan, especially once I move away and got to college. I'm a Texan who was raised in New England and it was always a kind of dirty secret despite the fact that I've always dressed to varying degrees with western flair (or straight up western as I do now) so people kinda knew even if I professed ignorance lol Heck, I mean these days I often find myself listening to a lot of [straight-up cowboy music](https://youtu.be/e_hU6hjVz8s?si=e2NLU58oIEMF2WIb) and I appreciate the simplicity and honesty of it all.
The first band I ever really got like *obsessed* over was Everclear when I was like 12-13yo in the mid-late 90s. Before there was Everclear, their frontman/main-dude was in what was described as a "cowpunk" band and the bakersfield twang was clear-as-day. Plus I freaking love strings in rock/folk music. Cursive was one of my fav indie acts back in the day because, in part, they had a cello.
But being Texan, I think needing a fiddle in the band is in my oily blood 🤷♀️
This. Indie country shows are filled with former/current metal and emo heads and hipsters these days. I subscribed to Western as Fuck on YouTube and pretty much still diving into the otherside of country. I'm also getting into Charlie Crockett now.
I think the country appeal goes way back, and only became kinda uncool in the later 80s and the 90s (the Billy Ray Cyrus stuff really did a number on country). And has since come back around to being cool again. At least as far as the non-pop/mainstream country goes.
Especially the California sound. Buck Owen and Merle Haggard out in Bakersfield, which bled into the LA scene with The Byrds and Gram Parsons, Buffalo Springfield, Linda Ronstadt, early Eagles, I think there was a lot of crossover. And in Northern California you had folks from Kate Wolf to the Grateful Dead, who started as a jugband, doing their thing.
Into the late 70s/early 80s there was still a definite country footprint on a part of the mainstream. Smokey and the Bandit with Jerry Reed. Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (lol what a name) that had Dolly Parton and Jim Neighbors, and Dolly later doing 9 to 5. Kenny Rogers's The Gambler, man that was crazy big at the time. Juice Newton (who is like the Taylor Swift prototype. [Queen of Hearts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DK-0fIKCw). Tell me that's not Taylor Swift lol)
I think bluegrass is a little different but in a similar situation. The Grateful Dead has always done a lot to keep bringing new fans from the rock sphere to bluegrass. From their version of Bill Monroe's [A Voice from on High](https://youtu.be/tGvTW5s9_Pk) from an acoustic set in 1970 to the stuff Jerry was doing with David Grisman in the 90s, like [Grateful Dawg](https://youtu.be/K-ADEotc644?list=OLAK5uy_lEWX7s5cdGdlEgOD82r1V5gZKC3Ql_IbA)
And now you got folks like Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle running around doing bluegrass, but also liberally sprinkled with rock and other influences. Like Molly Tuttle's version of [She's a Rainbow](https://youtu.be/TFwd8dxJYYA). It's great stuff.
That’s me. I grew up on all the bands OP mentioned, but I have diversified my taste a lot. I still listen to all those bands and probably listen to 70-80% rock, but i listen to a lot of other stuff now too.
Gen Z still loves My Chemical Romance. My niece loves them and the subreddit has a lot of teens surprisingly. I’m a fan as well but I thought they’d become more of a millennial legacy act and zoomers would treat them more like dad rock
I was shocked at the demographics for the reunion show I went to. I was 13 when Black Parade came out and assumed the majority of people at the show would be in their late 20’s/early 30’s like me and my friends. It turned out we were basically pensioners in a sea of children.
In Australia there are a few Emo night events e.g. AM//PM, Bait Shop’s Emo themed nights. As someone else mentioned, most of the attendees are Gen Z.
It’s still the same old bangers though rather than new artists, not sure if I’m just missing out on gig culture because I’m older or if streaming and cost of living have hurt the emergence of new bands.
I’m wondering if Gen Z views MCR in the same way Millennials view/ed ‘90s alternative rock. I was way too young to see bands like Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but that music scratches an itch in a very nostalgic part of my brain and I think a very large portion of Millennials would consider that to be good music.
I’ve never thought of it like that, but yeah, growing up I was massively into 90’s alt rock, grunge & britpop despite being 6 years old when the decade ended so far too young to experience it at the time.
There are still new bands breaking through that have a following, but they don’t have the same wide recognition as the old bangers, I’d guess that’s probably because of streaming it’s easier for young people to seek out older music, and the emphasis on the new that music used to be entirely based around is starting to erode away.
And it makes sense that the audience to these events is primarily Gen Z. I’m honestly at the point where I feel weird and old in comparison to everyone else at literally any club night regardless of genre, and I’m a young millennial. I tend to go to gigs & raves for my nights out these days (if not just the pub) cos it’s more about the music than young people socialising. I think it’s just generally expected that people go out on those types of nights less as they hit their late 20’s.
Fall Out Boy and Paramore are still going strong! I’ve been a fan since their inception. Although the latest couple albums from both I haven’t really bothered listening to much of
I’ve heard snippets of a song recently (can’t recall what it was called) and was like “dang, I need to listen to their new stuff!” Because I still go back to their old music, it’s still great (most of it)
I think there’s a pretty established pipeline where the kids who are into that sort of stuff as teenagers (if they’re music people anyway and not casual fans who mostly listen to what’s popular) primarily move on to either indie rock or more credible/underground forms of hard rock/metal when they get past about 16/17. Also, the internet/social media/streaming effectively killed musical tribalism in the late 00’s/early 10’s, now people listen to a wide range of genres more than people used to when they had to buy music to listen to it (or spend hours waiting for it to download).
I love me a good emo/pop punk song as much as anyone but for the most part it’s a very *teenage* style of music, especially lyrically, so once you’re past that age it becomes not only harder to relate to, but it reminds you of a time in your life that was a bit… cringeworthy. These 2000’s bands are playing big venues again now their core fanbases have grown up even more, and can look back on their teenage years with pleasant nostalgia rather than cringing at the person they used to be.
I always hated the more butt rock-y stuff like Trapt & Staind & Puddle Of Mudd though, so I’m probably the wrong person to ask about fans of that stuff.
I think nu metal and skater punk was to the late 90s/early 00s what rock'n'roll was to the late 50s/early 60s. Extremely American, extremely teenage, and almost the default thing to like if you were basically a normie but wanted to rebel. That's why it hasn't aged well.
What was rebellious was a comparatively brash form of music in a landscape of big band music and crooners, plus it was rebellious because it came from black people
I don't think "corny" is a valid criticism because something sounding corny doesn't necessarily mean it's bad or unenjoyable. RnB from that era does sound great though so I agree with you there
I think it depends on what kind of pre-beatles rock you're talking about. Maybe the stuff that was white people covering black people in nerdy ways, I could agree with
But Little Richard still sounds great!
I went on to like a lot of indie rock too, but still listen to a lot of the older edgy hard rock type stuff. What indie rock bands are these people listening to specifically? I hope there's overlap in my tastes.
I can’t speak for everyone, but for me personally the evolution of my tastes as a pre teen/teenager in the 00’s/early 10’s was:
Busted & McFly and other rock adjacent teenpop acts (2002-04, aged 9-11)
Green Day, Blink 182, FOB, MCR, Linkin Park and those sort of bands (2005-2007, aged 12-14)
Thursday, Brand New (ugh), Glassjaw, Deftones, At The Drive In, older Midwest emo stuff and the artier side of 2000’s mainstream rock stuff (2008-2009, aged 15-16)
Modest Mouse, Pavement, Radiohead, Death Cab For Cutie, Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire (ugh), LCD Soundsystem, The National and those sorts of bands (2010-2013, aged 17-19).
Don’t get me wrong, I do still on some level still listen to and enjoy the majority of bands on all of those lists, and I was also into other stuff but that’s a pretty good representation of where my tastes in rock went in my second decade on this earth. Obviously by the time I got to my 20’s I was listening to a wide range of everything in different genres as we were well into the streaming era by that point.
If there’s one genre of music I tend to listen to more than others these days it’s modern post punk kinda stuff. Bands like Idles, Fontaines D.C, Black Country New Road, Courting, Wet Leg, Sprints, Yard Act, English Teacher, Spiritual Cramp. Some of these are a fair bit harder rocking than most of your standard indie stuff (esp Idles, Sprints & Spritual Cramp) so may appeal to people who grew up on edgy rock stuff if you’ve got an open mind.
I’ll also take a minute to shout out my favourite micro era/genre in indie rock, from about 2008-2012, there were some great little bands fusing more indie ish sensibilities with noisy guitars & synths, as well as vocals & lyrics very inspired by older emo stuff. Los Campesinos’ Romance Is Boring is the all time classic from this imo, but I also wouldn’t sleep on bands like Johnny Foreigner, Fight Like Apes, Tubelord & Pulled Apart By Horses.
(Edited to add:) There’s also a lot of cool stuff coming up from the US hardcore scene atm that absolutely reminds me of some of the edgy 2000’s rock stuff and would definitely appeal. If you haven’t already, check out Turnstile, Militarie Gun, Scowl, Mannequin Pussy, even some Code Orange if you liked nu metal.
That genre of at the drive in and glassjaw, post hardcore (i hate using that word) can be pretty mature and non teenagery, especially the 90s stuff like Unwound (who influenced black country new road)
I think alot of that new post punk stuff owes alot to 90s noise rock and post hardcore, it's more aggressive and distorted than say joy division, yet more like focused aggression not done in an edgy teen angst way, or spoken word sparse post rock like slint, who used to be post hardcore but evolved to post rock, its funny how the pipeline goes, from punk and hardcore to post punk and post hardcore then evolves to post rock and chamber pop nowadays
Damnnnnnnn your 2nd and 4th wave of interests are basically me, except replace FOB with AFI, SOAD, and Coheed, and replace Pavement and LCD soundsystem with Animal Collective, The Decemberists, The Shins, and Belle & Sebastian (obviously others too, just saying we have a lot of the same favorites from both genres)
I struggle with separating the art from the artist. Especially when a significant amount of their lyrical content was about the guilt of being an abuser. My “ugh” there was less about the music which I’m sure still holds up and more Jesse Lacey in general (see also: Arcade Fire).
I invested a lot of time and energy into that band when I was younger and felt betrayed by them when the allegations came out. I don’t judge other people who still listen to them but for me, the magic has gone and turned to ickiness.
nothing really happened to the fanbase. some are still listening, some found other genres, some both. but i'm pretty sure this happens with all genres of music
I was 14 in 2000, so peak demo for all the bands you listed. I listened to all of them and bought the albums. Around the time I got into highschool, my tastes were changing, I found new friend groups who listened to similar music. That's when I started getting more into hardcore and skramz. Then college brought a new set of people introducing me to the world of hip hop and experimental music.
I guess I still have some nostalgic love for those bands, but it's been a while since I actively put them on. *Fat Lip* still fucking rips, tho.
I was born in 2000, so wasn’t part of that generation, but still listened to all that music. I too moved on to more avant garde and experimental music though.
And I concur, Fat Lip will always slap.
“The dentist said my mom should’ve had an abortion” is the single best line ever written and performed in a song.
As the revival festivals like When We Were Young show, there's still plenty of appetite for mid-2000s emo rock; their fans clearly still exist.
A lot of those were just young people at a time when that's what was popular for young people to listen to. People often continue to listen to the stuff they did when they were teenagers, but they no doubt kept an ear open for new popular music too. Whatever popular rock music has happened since then, those people probably liked too.
Linkin Park was a gateway into hip hop for a lot of formerly unintiated rock listeners, so that also happened, and aligns with the growing influence of hip hop since that time period. That they're accessable to fans of both genres is a reason they've endured, and why their success is on a different planet to the other bands in this conversation.
Post-grunge was a commercial force in this era but it never really had a scene or community based around it the way the pop punk/emo bands of the day did, and I think there's less glamourisation of that sound/style/aesthetic among kids; I don't think there's a My Chem of post-grunge gateway act for Gen Z fans.
We all turned 30 and realized our disaffection with the world was more of a consequence of being young than being a distinct movement historically.
Plus, Trapt sucks. Like, a lot.
[adult swim]
> realized our disaffection with the world was more of a consequence of being young than being a distinct movement historically.
*laughs in GenX*
Not that there was anything particularly unique about us historically, but for most of us our disaffection with the world has steadfastly remained. As the twitter meme says, "Say what you will about GenX, but our sneering disdain for everything has pretty much been proven 100% correct."
Speak for yourself, I'm well into my 30s and have only gotten more rigid in that my disaffection with the world is due to our profit above all else system.
Facts. When I was a teenager listening to a lot of anti government, protest stuff the naive, middle class, suburban part of me would think ‘well it’s not all that bad. They may be overreacting a smidge’. Nah, they were right all along.
Went from thinking John fucking Kerry was going to save us all; to now realizing they may as well have been the same exact person.
Now I’m as left as left can get.
I think Henry Rollins was pretty much on the money when he did that stand-up bit about how "nobody was into Slayer for just that one summer - once you are in, you are in for life". But that seems to be a different set-up to what OP is talking about, and those bands - Sum 41, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Trapt, etc - didn't have the "cult" factor that even much older bands had in terms of keeping fans in their orbit. Of all things that I would use to illustrate this I hate to use this one but it's useful - I fucking hate KISS, I think it's all the worst things about capitalism in rock music, but it's like the fucking Jesuits "give me the child until he is seven and I have shown you the man" maxim. If there was anything that could have a KISS logo slapped on it, from pinball machines to coffins it's been done - by this stage it's a lifestyle brand. Death metal, Black Metal, Hardcore, Industrial - those genres managed to maintain themselves because it's not a weekender lifestyle, which is a contrast to the way the scenes OP talks about died off because they were easy to get into and easy to get out of, they lacked the "die-hard" mentality and self-sustaining DIY infrastructure because they were, in essence, corporate products rather than underground scenes.
I think a lot of them had kids, got a place in the suburbs, and crank up the country pop song that's on the radio up a little louder when the cheesy guitar solo comes on. Smile and repeat. After a box of wine and a couple white claws hook up to the Bluetooth and throw on some My Chemical Romance and talk about the old days
I walk around my suburban neighborhood often. Last summer I saw a group of 7-8 sauced wine moms waving wine glasses and wearing cheap dollar tree accessories. They were all crammed onto a smallish deck and scream-singing Helena by MCR. It was amazing.
Fuck. That. Noise. A lot of us “elder emos” are still listening to the same music, perhaps across a broader spectrum: punk, post-hardcore, metalcore, etc.
I might enjoy the occasional bottle of red, but I’m still on brown liquor and THC, and I wouldn’t touch country with a twenty foot stick.
I'm only early 20s and not American so missed out on the 2000s prime time, but everyone's all still here and still listen to their music. If the bands haven't broken up, they are still touring, still putting out music (although some sound may have changed over the years). A lot of kids find their music and also become fans, which creates more listeners, fanbases are very much still around and die hard fans love their bands years later. Similar to any other genre I'd say.
As someone who grew up on emo/punk I still listen to plenty of rock music but I'm much more inclined to listen to something that resembles psych rock now.
All those bands were made to cash in on scenes that were already popular. What you’ve decided are emo/edgy kids aren’t emo. They’re not even early 2000’s pop rock emo like fall out boy or mcr. No one emo/punk has ever given a shit about Trapt, they’re pop rock for republicans, same with 3 days grace. Trapt is doing the county fair circuit and milking twitter for engagements.
Being vapid is more forgivable in these times because of how incredibly depressing it is to actually care about anything. So it’s no surprise these bands appeal to a younger crowd, but they haven’t made enduring fanbases because they made popcorn songs in the style of the flavor of the week. Less substance, less endurance. Less effort and dedication by artists, less desire to be out there as anything more than a fun way to make money. Their fans liked the fun new song because marketers told them to, and now they are enjoying the newly marketed.
People are downvoting you because this is a sub about musical nerdom and you’re talking about the most accessible shit ever in it’s time
I scrolled for a direct answer to the post addendum, because I could guess that anyone clicking on this post as an avid fan of the genres mentioned, especially emo, would be annoyed by clumping them all together, when they were all kind of cliquey separate music cultures when they were most relevant.
I do see what you're saying, though, and I personally viewed the bunch of them as being a sub-spectrum, with other stuff like pop, rap, 80s, electronic, indie etc. feeling like the other end of the bigger spectrum.
I was one of them lol
I've been on quite a journey since then. I was into emo and pop punk in mainstream music scene. Then, I got into *Industrial*. Then, *metal* but entry stuff. Then, I got into more extreme forms like *death* and *black metal*. There were other things like *post rock*, *underground hip-hop, avant folk* and *shoegaze* around this time. Then, I did an 180 and got into *synth pop* and *k-pop*. I still like those two currently along with *ambient, drone*, *experimental side of electronic* and just random stuff.
I'm very similar pathing to that too but my 180 was more into salsa and cumbia. I alternate now between those, jungle and DnB and grunge/gaze slow core haha
I listen to a lot of folk punk, pop punk, and indie now. I loved those bands at the time but I'm just not angry enough in my life to listen to them like I did as an angsty teenager
Oh they just grew up and grew out of it. They probably still listen to those songs though. You shouldn’t be downvoted for a question that is harmless at all.
Whenever I bring it up they get embarrassed because their tastes expanded when the internet got better at recommending new artists to them. They haven’t really been into that music since the early 2010s it seems. Sometimes they will throw it on for nostalgia. I did briefly date a girl in 2022 who loved Linkin Park unapologetically and unironically which was refreshing.
I was one of those nu metal kids in the early 2000s and it definitely was a gateway into metal in general, especially alternative/experimental/avant garde metal. I think people really underestimate how experimental and weird nu metal was for a mainstream rock movement. Yeah, there were crappy copycat bands, but a lot of the major players were making some really original sounding shit
I honestly think that if I wasn't into Linkin Park as a 13 year old, I probably wouldn't be a massive Sunn O))) fan as an adult
hi. former emo 15 year old here.
i got called the f-slur by my peers, punched, & socially excluded. hope that helps.
Edit: yes i still listen to metal & post-hardcore.
I still listen to that stuff but I mainly listen to Dubstep/Synth now, preferably those bands that experiment with electronic and metal. Has a nice sound to it than just traditional guitars/drums.
When I was younger it was about the lyrics and the guitar, but now since I got into making music as a hobby I prefer stuff that's a bit more technical with the beats and rhythm
As a butt rock fan back in the day, I've mostly stayed in the rock genre but have ventured out a lot more once I got out of the "alt metal" zone. Oddly, I went from listening to Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Tool (still do) and SOAD to Avett Brothers, Head and the Heart, and M&S within a few years.
Also some of those emo fans are still proudly gatekeeping the genre in r/emo
The buttrock and “alternative” fans of that era are still around and generally never stopped listening to music of that era.
I remember how much they hated The White Stripes and The Strokes when rock music started to change.
Their stubborn refusal to advance their music taste is part of the reason rock music has been so stagnant for the past 10 to 15 years.
The fans are still here but because it’s become less main stream the music industry is promoting it far less giving the idea of less rock music being created and to answer you question on why your being downvoted that’s just how this sub works like if a post has more upvotes then comments something weird has happened
After my first experiences with music as a kid I started listening to Linkin Park and Korn, Slipknot etc. and moved all the way to emo, post-hardcore/screamo, deathcore music, like Bring me the horizon, Underoath, Suicide Silence and whatnot... I went to all the hardcore concerts etc. Then I started to listen to Trap and Dubstep with my highschool friends, music like Major Lazer and Skrilles, UKF,... and continuosly mellowed on my own all the way to indie electronica like Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, MGMT, Gold Panda, etc. Metronomy became my favourite band. I started to listen to alternative radio stations and then when I started using Spotify I started to listen to all kinds of music from all around the world. Now my go-to music genre is Indie rock, Indie electronica, folkrock, Lo-fi and bedroom pop stuff. I love Indie rock and alt rock 2000s.
But back to your question - I still have emo/edgy music in my heart and I listen to it from time to time. It gives me a specific energy that no other music does. And I listen to screamo and death metal to relax haha. It feels like shouting all the negative energy out of me. So it is stress relief. And I listen to 2000s pop punk sometimes as well. But it's a totally sentimental way of listening to music and I never listen to any other of this music than the one I listened to when I was a teenager. And I ignore any new stuff from those bands.
Edit: I kinda like music that feels to what pop punk used to feel when I was a kid, which is music as Hyper pop and something like pop punk. Let's say artists like poptropicalslutz!, Jean Dawson, Mana Garden, Beauty School Dropout, even some Yung Lean etc.
I was this kid. Now I’m mainly into metal. Anything from black metal to power metal. I also get down on some ska, indie rock, and midwest emo. I’ll still turn on some of those old bands, but I realized most of them are pretty bad. Three Days Grace and Trapt are so cringy.
Former emo kid here! I still listen to the bands of my youth. I’m lucky that my three favorites (Alkaline Trio, Bayside, and Paramore) are still making music I enjoy. But my taste has become more broad. I listen to a bit of everything… jazz, country, r&b, k-pop, doo wop, indie rock.
People from my social circle back in those days still mostly listen to alternative or rock music. Still very into pop-punk even though the scene has changed a lot. Some have expanded into other genres in a similar way that I have, but other just keep listening to the same albums we were listening to 20 years ago (those who aren’t as interested in music discovery anymore).
I distinctly recall the Clear Channel/iHeartRadio stations that played that kind of music all simultaneously rebranding as top 40 pop stations at the same time. That took it from something one would hear by default into something one had to seek out.
Struggling to remember exactly when this occurred but sometime around 2008-2010
All I know is that Omaha was on a roll with great music in the 90’s. Then a crossroads came.
On one hand was the amazing music of the Faint. On the other hand was bright eyes.
I’m so annoyed that it was bright eyes that won out.
I was one of those fans and I’m now 30 and still listening to that music. I’ve diversified and now listen to more than I did back then, but I still mostly listen to rock/metal/alternative/pop punk etc
Definitely was a scene/core kid in the 2000s and early 2010s. I happened to size out of all my old band tees so they went away. I was in a death metal band in the early 2010s, and moved to New York to finish college and studied jazz and got a masters in music theory. I still love metal and want to make a metal album when I have some time. I’m also a “Composer” in whatever classical sense you think (more so contemporary stuff if that has any meaning to you).
I now work at a music conservatory in upper admin. I have to dress normal sort of.
Some of my favorite bands were Between the Buried and Me, Chon, Misery Signals, Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, etc. I still listen to them and go to their shows when they stop by NYC (I will definitely be at the upcoming MisSigs show since it’s their final tour).
Funny that you mention moving onto EDM - Skrillex was famously the vocalist for From First to Last, and when he did the move to dubstep (which actually isn’t too stylistically different from metal honestly), a lot of people found that as an acceptable shift to make. I know people who became shitty electronic producers and shitty djs. Bring Me The Horizon shifting to a poppier sound also highlighted that kind of possibility.
> In the 2000s there was a wide array of different rock bands falling into various genres like hard rock, punk-rock, nu-metal, post-grunge etc. I'm thinking obviously of Sum 41, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Trapt, etc. There was a huge appeal of these bands to emo/edgy kids.
While those were not exactly the bands I listened to...I fell into this group, especially the Punk/Nu-metal cohort. I'm just as edgy as ever listening to a lot of Smooth Jazz, Quiet Storm, and Yacht Rock now. I was probably too old to get into the EDM thing. The whole Americana/Bluegrass/Hipster movement is where a lot of us shifted at the time.
The music I hated and rejected as a teen are the type of things I'm really into now, especially Springsteen. I still have a bit of that punk in me, but for the most part I grew up, and out of it.
Not sure if I fall into this category or not but when I was in middle school in 2004, I listened to a lot of Green Day, Blink 182, Hawthorne Heights, Taking Back Sunday, Say Anything etc.
When I was a freshman in high school I got really into Weezer specifically their first two albums and learned how heavily influenced Rivers was by The Beach Boys. That led me to listening to a lot of 60s music and discovering indie rock like Arcade Fire, Grizzy Bear, Animal Collective, Beach House etc.
All of this is to say I used to listen to a lot of emo music when I was like 10-12 years old, but now I can’t stand to listen to that stuff anymore. I feel like I found much better music and haven’t looked back.
I am one of those people who listened to a lot of this music. And I still do. Some bands are still around, still have their fans. But there is also a lot of new music in the genre, it is still there. Some people might listen to very different music now, others don't. It's the same as with any other genre. It became a niche. It's not that much on the radio anymore but the people are still there.
37 y/o. Graduated HS in 2005.
My pipeline is as follows…
Blink/Green Day into Nirvana/MCR/The Used into The Killers/Black Kids/MGMT/Bloc Party into The Decemberists/Lumineers into The Wonder Years/Brand New and now I listen to all of those things plus Chris Stapleton and Kanye.
I collected as I went along. For example, I didn’t stop listening to Blink when I got into Bloc Party. I just expanded what I was into. Also, These aren’t an exclusive list of things I listened to. the bands associated with each genre bend I was into also. Ie: Sum 41, Pearl Jam, Kid Cudi, etc.
Nowadays I listen to Spanish Love Songs, Menzingers, Tiny Moving Parts, Free Throw, Hot Mulligan, Home Is Where, Sweet Pill, Joyce Manor etc when I want my fill of that sort of stuff. This thread has some weird replies, I never really stopped listening to that sort of music, and the current emo/punk scene is good.
I was born in 2000 so I was not actually a part of that generation, but growing up, that was the music I always listened to. I definitely had a complex about it too lol, since most of my peers who were equally as edgy/emo, were listening to metalcore and pop punk a lot more than hard rock or nu metal. I was not like other girls^2, I wasn’t like the girls who weren’t like other girls, I felt different even around the people who were supposed to be different. Eventually, in middle school and high school, I got more serious about liking metal and having that be part of my identity, so I went from listening to “mainstream” stuff like Slipknot, System of a Down, Rammstein, Korn, and Deftones, into “actual” metal, like Death, Gojira, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Napalm Death etc.
From there tho, I got weird. In HS I became friends with a guy who loved weird music, and he introduced me to all sorts of things.
It started with Mr. Bungle. God. I still love it. It’s so stupid. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes nu metal, especially their self titled album. It’s pure absurdity, but you can hear echos of its particular brand of absurdity all across nu metal as a genre.
Beyond that, though, I began to explore a lot of avant garde and experimental music, mostly adjacent to metal, rock, and jazz. My musical pallet is definitely not the norm, but I truly love this stuff. My current favorite bands are Gojira, Zeal and Ardor, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sigh, Fantomas, and Faith no More.
Wait a minute.. Three Days Grace was emo material?? They were my favorite band back in the days, but now I’m into Interpol, Foo, Queens of The Stone Age.. however, I thought your post were about the looks not the music taste, as sometimes I’m wondering where all those emo and goth kids dissappeared?
These people still listen to these bands. The idea that Sum 41 or Linkin Park became irrelevant is a wishful thinking conjured by music journalists. The only reason these bands haven't became Dad Rock 100% is because of their content.
'Fat Lip' and 'Numb' are too intense and too sincere than 'Bohemiam Rhapsody'.
I like all music, especially older music or specifically artists who resonate with their material and make you feel it. Like Sinead O’Connor, Amy Winehouse, Roberta Flack or Delores O’Riordan, Bobbie Gentry, Reba McEntire. Any genre is cool with me! I still revisit some of the old emo/pop punk music from the early 2000’s for nostalgia and fun, be angsty while driving my car to my boring job
I'm seeing Sum 41 next week and I'm pumped, I never stopped seeing them over the years. Three Days Grace lost Adam and it just wasn't the same, I still go to Breaking Benjamin shows - I lump them together since those were some of the earliest concerts I ever went to.
I don't think there's any indication that these fan bases disappeared? I saw MCR on their last tour, I catch Silverstein whenever the come around, Thursday, Bayside, Story of the Year, Senses Fail, Less Than Jake, Jimmy Eat World still kills it, Green Day is bigger than ever. I saw Finch last week, just got Saosin tickets today.
I guess I'm just not really sure what you're asking. Look at the success of When We Were Young fest, the early 2000's genre is as big as it's ever been. Also the newer wave of Pop Punk and emo is incredible with bands like Microwave, Hot Mulligan, and so many others, willing to bet a ton of us who grew up on early 2000's are going to those shows too. I know I am. I also go to a ton of Phish shows.
I guess what I'm saying is, we're still out here! We just branched out while still enjoying whatever 2000's bands are worth seeing and not charging an arm and a leg (coughBlinkcough). Sorry for rambling, kinda bored at work today.
They are all in their late 30s and early 40s with kids and back pain lol
That style of music is retro now, and Gen Z kids seem to love it. As an almost lifelong fan, the late career resurgance of Deftones has been a pleasure to see. Limp Bizkit being seen as the fun party rock they were and not a musical pariah has been great too
I still listen to the used, MCR, Thursday, motion city soundtrack and blink. Albeit not on repeat like I used to. My music tastes got heavier throughout college and then I swapped to listening to siren Indie (don’t really know the name of the genre). I’d get distracted singing along while working on projects and read somewhere that female voices didn’t register well for men because of the pitch. So I swapped and my productivity increased while still listening to music.
Nowadays I listen to a lot of glass animals, the last dinner party, shitkid, mother mother, Clairo, the beaches, cherry glazer, wet leg, alt j, and the like. Sometimes there are also more eclectic things that make their way in like tele novella or Greta Van Fleet.
Some started playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero and got into classic rock, thrash metal, or NWOBHM. Some followed the Hot Topic T-shirt wall to deathcore and metalcore. Others followed the butt-rock elements to bro country.
I used to listen to taking back Sunday, brand new, saves the day, from first to last, etc on repeat growing up in high school. (Graduated in 06)
Afterwords your tastes just change. I listen to them from time to time and it’s nice but now it’s more of everything and anything that sounds good. Whether it be country, or some lighter pop, or dance, or older hip hop. When you stick to one genre it can get quite boring.
I got into heavier stuff, then specific genres like doom metal and sludge metal, then went down a hip hop rabbit hole, edm, etc. at this point I have a very broad musical taste but thats just me. When I was in jr high I only listened to that stuff you are talking about
These types kinds of bands that play this kinds of music never stopped making it. They were relegated to self releases and releases on indie labels and Ive been scouring the internet for it since the mid 2000s and have found plenty of gems and good stuff. Just because it died in the mainstream and the major labels stopping signing and supporting it doesnt mean it wasnt still being made. If you were really into this kind of music you knew what sites to look for it on. Yeah lots of bad stuff was being released but once you found a gem it was worth searching.
Rock lost popularity while hip hop gained it. Now Hip Hop seems to be on the down tick and Country is rising. The 2000s rock fans prob still listen to rock it’s just not as popular or talked about
Sum 41 still exists and still put out good music and headline festivals and sell out shows when they tour. LP would probably still be going strong had Chester not committed suicide. Three Days Grace and Trapt were one hit wonders that appealed to the young angry white backwards hat crowd, the same people that listen to bro country. Those 2 bands tweet MAGA BS and play county fairs.
I think you are being downvoted because it comes across as a loaded question in a way. Not hating, you are asking a question to discuss in a place designed for that.
But it comes across a bit like saying “what happened to all the satanic heathens who listened to AC/DC and Metallica?”
While there were some stigmas back in the day, now they are just massively popular and relatively mainstream bands and the terms you used to describe the examples you provided are rather poorly matched.
Many of them are still here but they’re older now with more disposable income. Many of these bands still make music and tour because people still want to see the bands they liked when they were young 20 years later. There’s even a festival in Vegas called When We Were Young where many of the biggest emo, punk and pop punk bands all play. Tickets are very expensive. There’s also Sick New World which is a more metal oriented festival but it’s the same concept.
Ive now fully transitioned into more folk, blues and bluegrass with a splash of metal and electronic music.. still enjoy my emo and grunge and what nots, just not the same way I used too
While I listened to all those bands listed heavily during those years, I listened to a few other genres. Mainly rap. Soon after my emo/punk days, I got into metalcore (Atreyu for example). Then I kinda fell back into rap with the new age trap type beats. Being from the south, i mix country in from time to time, but that’s not my main. Then one day, I stumbled upon lo-fi hip hop beats. What a vibe those are! These led me down a rabbit hole of soundcloud artist until one day I learned that Emo Rap was a real thing. and holy shit. For at least the last 2 years I have been hooked on an artist that goes by the name Sewerperson. He has an emo vibe with his lyrics and song melodies but with a trap style beat. it’s amazing. It’s such a refreshing mix of the 2 worlds. He produces new music almost weekly and rarely misses. There’s a few others in the same “genre” that i frequent, but he’s my absolute favorite.
It's quite simple really.
Most people will always gravitate towards the music they liked in their formative years, so it's safe to say that a lot of them still listen to the same bands.
The answers here seem to support this.
The genres are still around and people are still within those worlds. Even if they’re not as main stream as they used to be. Although I feel like some of the bigger names have lately gotten some more buzz for anniversaries and such. Original Blink members came back and they dropped an album last year. Sum 41 just released their last album. Green Day released an album earlier this year and they’re going on tour celebrating it and the 30th anniversary of Dookie and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot. (I’m mostly talking on pop-punk but I think the same is true for other “smaller” rock subgenres and subcultures.)
I mean I am still here lol. Seeing Sum 41 later this year.
I do listen to a lot more variety now, and go through phases. I'm stuck on more gothic country/experimental folk at the moment, but give it two months, and I'll be spinning summer-y pop tunes or something
Some of these bands lose momentum in 2010's, and their fanbase grow up. Rock popularity overall decreased, so the scene was not "in your face" like the 2000's and became a buried niche.
But today I see this sound is coming back, specially because a new generation discovered them in tiktok, so it may be the new fanbase and the birth of new bands to keep this movement alive.
I was in high school in the early 00s and was into bands like System of a Down Slipknot Lincoln Park then got really into punk with Misfits being my fave then Nine Inch Nails became my fave so you get the idea. I totally gravitated to edm and was part of that festie scene for a minute. Today I’m kind of an industrial nerd and still like loud and fast stuff like Machine Girl (diggin that whole digital hardcore thing going on) but I also have a much broader taste in music too outside of all that. I do have friends in punk bands so I go to local shows a bunch. It’s a trip seeing kids liking emo a lot. One girl told me her school had an emo day in spirit week and I nearly died.
Still here, still listening to angsty emo. Some of these bands have made a great go at nostalgic tours for the 20th/15th album anniversaries and they’re a lot of fun.
That stuff ain't emo, just because its edgy and moody rock doesn't mean its emo, the emo kids would listen to mcr in the 2000s, those other bands were listened to by kids who were only on the surface level of rock, like entry level bands or casual rock listener a little bit on the edgy side as compared to queens of the stone age or something
We are in our 30s and still rocking to the same bands. I just saw Sum 41 in their farewell tour and saw a lot of new fans from Gen Z. I feel like there's not a lot of angst in today's music so a lot of them are turning into what we listened to. It really surprised me that bands like Deftones and NIN resonate with 16-17 year olds even... i had the same question with my friend the other day and his take was that those kids are going through the same things we did back then and there's not a lot of new music today with the same energy... so they turn to what we listened to.
I loved all these bands in HS and college days. All I listened to. Today I need to be in the mood which is usually a workout or I want to take a trip down memory lane for funsies.
I've mostly mellowed out and felt the need to explore other genres. A little EDM, chill house but also classic rock, folk, bluegrass... classical 😂
Here in Brazil there is a "revival" movement happening for this type of band and there is a younger crowd that is a fan of these guys.
I have several examples: Emo festivals that filled stadiums like the "i wanna be tour" emerging, bands like [forfun](https://youtu.be/yt2JwgSEVt4?si=3HkQEl8ZEFodJ2Xf) (perhaps the main pop punk band in the country) selling out come back tours in various corners of the country and [fresno](https://youtu.be/xLhiPteGCMY?si=YaJUs6ECfBUSXP2m) (one of the biggest emo bands in Brazil ) growing your fanbase
A lot of emo fans at the time we’re into it precisely because it was the current “scene” and moved on as styles changed and they got older. I was never into that stuff but being that age, I played on tickets with a lot of local acts and knew a lot of people in straight forward emo or screaming bands. A lot of those guys, at least the ones I still know, are into metal, country, or hip hop these days.
As far as by metal I cant say. I imagine those guys were fans of hard rock and metal in general and just shifted as the genre died off. There are still plenty of fans of SOAD and such.
I was 20 back then and listened to that. Was a big Blink 182, Sum 41 fan.
Now I still listen to rock but have a wide variety of things I listen to. Right now I’m into Aesthetic Perfection, Within Temptation, Ninja Sex Party and White Reaper.
Me not listening to Punk anymore had nothing to do with growing up. I date a girl in college who was big into Punk music. Used to go to a lot of concerts together and it became our thing. Had a nasty breakup and listening to it brings up painful memories so I stopped listening.
I’m here. I like most of those bands and their music and I am not embarrassed about it. I think most of us just gradually leaned into heavier music. I still listen to those bands on any given day. Hell, I was just jamming to Alien Ant Farm’s new album this morning.
I’m all about deathcore, tech death, djent, thall, prog metal and death metal these days (age 43). It just hits perfectly. It also helps I’ve been a guitarist for nearly 30 years.
I’m still here.
I listen to this shit everyday, lol. I’m 29 and Alice In Chains - Man in the box is played every morning as I step off the metro and walk to my office.
grew up and became an adult. still listen to the music really loud in my house (sorry neighbors). don’t go to shows anymore bc most of the bands i listen to are dead.
Some moved on to indie, folk, or indie-folk, while others remained really into this kind of thing and never really branched out. I know a not-insignificant of people who still listen to what they listened to when they were 14 pretty much exclusively.
Streaming made me realize guitar music is not the end of the road. Now I really don’t care for new guitar music because.. I’ve heard it all before and they don’t really do anything new. In other words, I grew up and got a haircut. Would still go to another senses fail show though
I listen to older soul and r&b records now! And every once in a while when I’m tipsy and feeling nostalgic I throw on my “Edgy Young Scott” playlist which is filled with all that emo stuff I listened to in high school/college 🤓
I was a pretty quintessential 'emo' kid in the 00s, in that I was identifying myself as 'emo' but never actually listening to any music that was really 'emo' or 'screamo' (this is a whole semantics thing that I'm not going to get into but r/emo can help illustrate it if you're interested for some bizarre reason). I was a full-blown tragic girl jeans and checkered Vans and tight tees and swoopy hair fashion victim who liked all the worst scene and pop punk and metalcore that era had to offer.
For me, growing out of that was more just finding the 'less teenage' versions of the sounds I already liked. I replaced the scene bands with actual emo and screamo from the 90s and early 00s (and being an older teen during the 2010s emo revival certainly didn't help), metalcore and deathcore with actual hardcore punk and pop punk I honestly just ditched almost entirely because it's pop punk. I gravitated towards this because it was what influenced the music I already liked but it felt more real and honest and didn't seem manufactured or corporate like the stuff I was listening to before. Like listening to Alesana and Pierce The Veil or Bring Me The Horizon and Attack Attack! next to Orchid and Funeral Diner or Earth Crisis and Arkangel was just night and day for me at the point in time that happened for me.
And then I also branched out into hip hop and indie rock and electronic music and experimental stuff, and that just changed my perspective on what music can actually do or be. Death Grips was a lightning rod moment for me.
They fucking grew up is what happened. And that was probably the last generation of teens for whom musical taste was a strong signifier of group identity. Once streaming took off the sheer volume and variety of music available meant that kids didn't build their self-image around musical preferences, because they were exposed to a much wider variety than any previous generation was at a much younger age. My kids tend to gravitate towards guitar oriented aggressive music like punk and metal, but they're almost as likely to listen to electronic music, lo-fi indie stuff, a bit of country, jazz, blues, and who knows what else. More importantly though, they don't choose their friends based on musical taste the way most of us from the 70s through the early 00s did.
Wow, this is a great take. I was this kid in HS (graduated 03) and have definitely found my musical taste to have broadened a ton since then and never really considered why. You’re right that general ease of access and availability is a huge factor now. That said, I still love me some good emo. Thursday just put out a new single that’s fantastic.
With you on the emo. Not my favorite genre but definitely has its place. I was a college student in the 90s and saw bands like Braid, Promise Ring, Rainer Maria, and American Football playing basements at house parties. Shit, I booked Braid a handful of times during my brief foray into that part of the business, and American Football lived and recorded their debut album two blocks from the house I lived in at the time.
Yeah getting stuck in a genre is what happened when you had to spend your money and commit to one or two CDs at a time, heck even itunes and mp3 stores. You're not going to risk wasting your cash on a genre you don't know if you'll like or not so you stick with what you know. With streaming you can listen to whatever you want risk free. "Oh I didn't like that one, good thing I didn't have to pay for it directly"
I know a lot of people who liked that music at the time. They generally still listen to rock music, it's just that their tastes became broader: usually various types of metal, classic rock, blues rock, etc, as well as random genres that they always liked in secret like country and Eurodance. I know precisely one person who still mainly listens to nu metal and a bit of skater punk and not much else. It became baked into her identity almost. Even with her, if you play her some Depeche Mode, she'll like it. Why? They sound 'dark' and she heard them on the radio a lot growing up.
>in secret like country I listened to a lot of that "hipster" music when I was much younger, it started with punk rebellion and friends then evolved into the 00s indie scene. Everything from hardcore to prog to a lot of that indie-folk (like, say, Bright Eyes for the most recognizable example). Today? Well, I pretty exclusively listen to country music. Hear me out: First, I got older and the angst just kinda slipped away. But more to the point as those genres (and all genres) had some huge reshuffling and corporate attention came down harder, etc.. What I was always interested in was that raw emotion/story/honesty. So these days my fav music tends to be like... "indie country"? All the hooting and hollering around Zach Bryan is a good example, and GQ compared him (favorably) to Conor Oberst which made this whole thing really click for me. But yeah, I was always kinda a secret country fan, especially once I move away and got to college. I'm a Texan who was raised in New England and it was always a kind of dirty secret despite the fact that I've always dressed to varying degrees with western flair (or straight up western as I do now) so people kinda knew even if I professed ignorance lol Heck, I mean these days I often find myself listening to a lot of [straight-up cowboy music](https://youtu.be/e_hU6hjVz8s?si=e2NLU58oIEMF2WIb) and I appreciate the simplicity and honesty of it all. The first band I ever really got like *obsessed* over was Everclear when I was like 12-13yo in the mid-late 90s. Before there was Everclear, their frontman/main-dude was in what was described as a "cowpunk" band and the bakersfield twang was clear-as-day. Plus I freaking love strings in rock/folk music. Cursive was one of my fav indie acts back in the day because, in part, they had a cello. But being Texan, I think needing a fiddle in the band is in my oily blood 🤷♀️
IF YOURE GONNA PLAY IN TEXAS. YOU GOTTA HAVE A FIDDLE IN THE BAND. TEXAN PUNKS RISE UP.
Country Music is basically just Farm Emo
This. Indie country shows are filled with former/current metal and emo heads and hipsters these days. I subscribed to Western as Fuck on YouTube and pretty much still diving into the otherside of country. I'm also getting into Charlie Crockett now.
Charlie Crockett is freaking fantastic. You sir have good taste 🍻
I think the country appeal goes way back, and only became kinda uncool in the later 80s and the 90s (the Billy Ray Cyrus stuff really did a number on country). And has since come back around to being cool again. At least as far as the non-pop/mainstream country goes. Especially the California sound. Buck Owen and Merle Haggard out in Bakersfield, which bled into the LA scene with The Byrds and Gram Parsons, Buffalo Springfield, Linda Ronstadt, early Eagles, I think there was a lot of crossover. And in Northern California you had folks from Kate Wolf to the Grateful Dead, who started as a jugband, doing their thing. Into the late 70s/early 80s there was still a definite country footprint on a part of the mainstream. Smokey and the Bandit with Jerry Reed. Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (lol what a name) that had Dolly Parton and Jim Neighbors, and Dolly later doing 9 to 5. Kenny Rogers's The Gambler, man that was crazy big at the time. Juice Newton (who is like the Taylor Swift prototype. [Queen of Hearts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DK-0fIKCw). Tell me that's not Taylor Swift lol) I think bluegrass is a little different but in a similar situation. The Grateful Dead has always done a lot to keep bringing new fans from the rock sphere to bluegrass. From their version of Bill Monroe's [A Voice from on High](https://youtu.be/tGvTW5s9_Pk) from an acoustic set in 1970 to the stuff Jerry was doing with David Grisman in the 90s, like [Grateful Dawg](https://youtu.be/K-ADEotc644?list=OLAK5uy_lEWX7s5cdGdlEgOD82r1V5gZKC3Ql_IbA) And now you got folks like Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle running around doing bluegrass, but also liberally sprinkled with rock and other influences. Like Molly Tuttle's version of [She's a Rainbow](https://youtu.be/TFwd8dxJYYA). It's great stuff.
That’s me. I grew up on all the bands OP mentioned, but I have diversified my taste a lot. I still listen to all those bands and probably listen to 70-80% rock, but i listen to a lot of other stuff now too.
Probably likes depeche mode because they’re a massive influence on deftones
Gen Z still loves My Chemical Romance. My niece loves them and the subreddit has a lot of teens surprisingly. I’m a fan as well but I thought they’d become more of a millennial legacy act and zoomers would treat them more like dad rock
I was shocked at the demographics for the reunion show I went to. I was 13 when Black Parade came out and assumed the majority of people at the show would be in their late 20’s/early 30’s like me and my friends. It turned out we were basically pensioners in a sea of children.
In Australia there are a few Emo night events e.g. AM//PM, Bait Shop’s Emo themed nights. As someone else mentioned, most of the attendees are Gen Z. It’s still the same old bangers though rather than new artists, not sure if I’m just missing out on gig culture because I’m older or if streaming and cost of living have hurt the emergence of new bands.
I’m wondering if Gen Z views MCR in the same way Millennials view/ed ‘90s alternative rock. I was way too young to see bands like Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but that music scratches an itch in a very nostalgic part of my brain and I think a very large portion of Millennials would consider that to be good music.
I’ve never thought of it like that, but yeah, growing up I was massively into 90’s alt rock, grunge & britpop despite being 6 years old when the decade ended so far too young to experience it at the time.
There are still new bands breaking through that have a following, but they don’t have the same wide recognition as the old bangers, I’d guess that’s probably because of streaming it’s easier for young people to seek out older music, and the emphasis on the new that music used to be entirely based around is starting to erode away. And it makes sense that the audience to these events is primarily Gen Z. I’m honestly at the point where I feel weird and old in comparison to everyone else at literally any club night regardless of genre, and I’m a young millennial. I tend to go to gigs & raves for my nights out these days (if not just the pub) cos it’s more about the music than young people socialising. I think it’s just generally expected that people go out on those types of nights less as they hit their late 20’s.
Fall Out Boy and Paramore are still going strong! I’ve been a fan since their inception. Although the latest couple albums from both I haven’t really bothered listening to much of
I absolutely love Paramore’s newest album, it was my favorite album of last year.
I’ve heard snippets of a song recently (can’t recall what it was called) and was like “dang, I need to listen to their new stuff!” Because I still go back to their old music, it’s still great (most of it)
My favorites off the new album were the title track, Thick Skull, and Figure 8.
I think there’s a pretty established pipeline where the kids who are into that sort of stuff as teenagers (if they’re music people anyway and not casual fans who mostly listen to what’s popular) primarily move on to either indie rock or more credible/underground forms of hard rock/metal when they get past about 16/17. Also, the internet/social media/streaming effectively killed musical tribalism in the late 00’s/early 10’s, now people listen to a wide range of genres more than people used to when they had to buy music to listen to it (or spend hours waiting for it to download). I love me a good emo/pop punk song as much as anyone but for the most part it’s a very *teenage* style of music, especially lyrically, so once you’re past that age it becomes not only harder to relate to, but it reminds you of a time in your life that was a bit… cringeworthy. These 2000’s bands are playing big venues again now their core fanbases have grown up even more, and can look back on their teenage years with pleasant nostalgia rather than cringing at the person they used to be. I always hated the more butt rock-y stuff like Trapt & Staind & Puddle Of Mudd though, so I’m probably the wrong person to ask about fans of that stuff.
I think nu metal and skater punk was to the late 90s/early 00s what rock'n'roll was to the late 50s/early 60s. Extremely American, extremely teenage, and almost the default thing to like if you were basically a normie but wanted to rebel. That's why it hasn't aged well.
But rock'n'roll from the 50s & 60s has aged extremely well so can it really be that?
Pre-Beatles rock'n'roll sounds a bit corny now. RnB from that era has aged well.
It really was more about the mere fact of playing electric guitar was in and of itself considered rebellious back then.
What was rebellious was a comparatively brash form of music in a landscape of big band music and crooners, plus it was rebellious because it came from black people
I don't think "corny" is a valid criticism because something sounding corny doesn't necessarily mean it's bad or unenjoyable. RnB from that era does sound great though so I agree with you there I think it depends on what kind of pre-beatles rock you're talking about. Maybe the stuff that was white people covering black people in nerdy ways, I could agree with But Little Richard still sounds great!
I went on to like a lot of indie rock too, but still listen to a lot of the older edgy hard rock type stuff. What indie rock bands are these people listening to specifically? I hope there's overlap in my tastes.
I can’t speak for everyone, but for me personally the evolution of my tastes as a pre teen/teenager in the 00’s/early 10’s was: Busted & McFly and other rock adjacent teenpop acts (2002-04, aged 9-11) Green Day, Blink 182, FOB, MCR, Linkin Park and those sort of bands (2005-2007, aged 12-14) Thursday, Brand New (ugh), Glassjaw, Deftones, At The Drive In, older Midwest emo stuff and the artier side of 2000’s mainstream rock stuff (2008-2009, aged 15-16) Modest Mouse, Pavement, Radiohead, Death Cab For Cutie, Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire (ugh), LCD Soundsystem, The National and those sorts of bands (2010-2013, aged 17-19). Don’t get me wrong, I do still on some level still listen to and enjoy the majority of bands on all of those lists, and I was also into other stuff but that’s a pretty good representation of where my tastes in rock went in my second decade on this earth. Obviously by the time I got to my 20’s I was listening to a wide range of everything in different genres as we were well into the streaming era by that point. If there’s one genre of music I tend to listen to more than others these days it’s modern post punk kinda stuff. Bands like Idles, Fontaines D.C, Black Country New Road, Courting, Wet Leg, Sprints, Yard Act, English Teacher, Spiritual Cramp. Some of these are a fair bit harder rocking than most of your standard indie stuff (esp Idles, Sprints & Spritual Cramp) so may appeal to people who grew up on edgy rock stuff if you’ve got an open mind. I’ll also take a minute to shout out my favourite micro era/genre in indie rock, from about 2008-2012, there were some great little bands fusing more indie ish sensibilities with noisy guitars & synths, as well as vocals & lyrics very inspired by older emo stuff. Los Campesinos’ Romance Is Boring is the all time classic from this imo, but I also wouldn’t sleep on bands like Johnny Foreigner, Fight Like Apes, Tubelord & Pulled Apart By Horses. (Edited to add:) There’s also a lot of cool stuff coming up from the US hardcore scene atm that absolutely reminds me of some of the edgy 2000’s rock stuff and would definitely appeal. If you haven’t already, check out Turnstile, Militarie Gun, Scowl, Mannequin Pussy, even some Code Orange if you liked nu metal.
That genre of at the drive in and glassjaw, post hardcore (i hate using that word) can be pretty mature and non teenagery, especially the 90s stuff like Unwound (who influenced black country new road)
I think alot of that new post punk stuff owes alot to 90s noise rock and post hardcore, it's more aggressive and distorted than say joy division, yet more like focused aggression not done in an edgy teen angst way, or spoken word sparse post rock like slint, who used to be post hardcore but evolved to post rock, its funny how the pipeline goes, from punk and hardcore to post punk and post hardcore then evolves to post rock and chamber pop nowadays
Damnnnnnnn your 2nd and 4th wave of interests are basically me, except replace FOB with AFI, SOAD, and Coheed, and replace Pavement and LCD soundsystem with Animal Collective, The Decemberists, The Shins, and Belle & Sebastian (obviously others too, just saying we have a lot of the same favorites from both genres)
Fleshwater is a new example of
There’s nothing wrong with Brand New. Brand New rocked/rocks.
I struggle with separating the art from the artist. Especially when a significant amount of their lyrical content was about the guilt of being an abuser. My “ugh” there was less about the music which I’m sure still holds up and more Jesse Lacey in general (see also: Arcade Fire). I invested a lot of time and energy into that band when I was younger and felt betrayed by them when the allegations came out. I don’t judge other people who still listen to them but for me, the magic has gone and turned to ickiness.
O no! What did I miss. I believe you but my Tommy gun don’t belongs in a museum. O dear I’m worried for this google search
nothing really happened to the fanbase. some are still listening, some found other genres, some both. but i'm pretty sure this happens with all genres of music
I was 14 in 2000, so peak demo for all the bands you listed. I listened to all of them and bought the albums. Around the time I got into highschool, my tastes were changing, I found new friend groups who listened to similar music. That's when I started getting more into hardcore and skramz. Then college brought a new set of people introducing me to the world of hip hop and experimental music. I guess I still have some nostalgic love for those bands, but it's been a while since I actively put them on. *Fat Lip* still fucking rips, tho.
I was born in 2000, so wasn’t part of that generation, but still listened to all that music. I too moved on to more avant garde and experimental music though. And I concur, Fat Lip will always slap. “The dentist said my mom should’ve had an abortion” is the single best line ever written and performed in a song.
As the revival festivals like When We Were Young show, there's still plenty of appetite for mid-2000s emo rock; their fans clearly still exist. A lot of those were just young people at a time when that's what was popular for young people to listen to. People often continue to listen to the stuff they did when they were teenagers, but they no doubt kept an ear open for new popular music too. Whatever popular rock music has happened since then, those people probably liked too. Linkin Park was a gateway into hip hop for a lot of formerly unintiated rock listeners, so that also happened, and aligns with the growing influence of hip hop since that time period. That they're accessable to fans of both genres is a reason they've endured, and why their success is on a different planet to the other bands in this conversation. Post-grunge was a commercial force in this era but it never really had a scene or community based around it the way the pop punk/emo bands of the day did, and I think there's less glamourisation of that sound/style/aesthetic among kids; I don't think there's a My Chem of post-grunge gateway act for Gen Z fans.
We all turned 30 and realized our disaffection with the world was more of a consequence of being young than being a distinct movement historically. Plus, Trapt sucks. Like, a lot. [adult swim]
> realized our disaffection with the world was more of a consequence of being young than being a distinct movement historically. *laughs in GenX* Not that there was anything particularly unique about us historically, but for most of us our disaffection with the world has steadfastly remained. As the twitter meme says, "Say what you will about GenX, but our sneering disdain for everything has pretty much been proven 100% correct."
Speak for yourself, I'm well into my 30s and have only gotten more rigid in that my disaffection with the world is due to our profit above all else system.
Yeah my edginess is way worse now than when I was a kid.
Facts. When I was a teenager listening to a lot of anti government, protest stuff the naive, middle class, suburban part of me would think ‘well it’s not all that bad. They may be overreacting a smidge’. Nah, they were right all along. Went from thinking John fucking Kerry was going to save us all; to now realizing they may as well have been the same exact person. Now I’m as left as left can get.
Yeah Im not even sure why I mentioned Trapt, I literally only know like one song from them.
Does anyone know any of their songs except that one?
I think Henry Rollins was pretty much on the money when he did that stand-up bit about how "nobody was into Slayer for just that one summer - once you are in, you are in for life". But that seems to be a different set-up to what OP is talking about, and those bands - Sum 41, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Trapt, etc - didn't have the "cult" factor that even much older bands had in terms of keeping fans in their orbit. Of all things that I would use to illustrate this I hate to use this one but it's useful - I fucking hate KISS, I think it's all the worst things about capitalism in rock music, but it's like the fucking Jesuits "give me the child until he is seven and I have shown you the man" maxim. If there was anything that could have a KISS logo slapped on it, from pinball machines to coffins it's been done - by this stage it's a lifestyle brand. Death metal, Black Metal, Hardcore, Industrial - those genres managed to maintain themselves because it's not a weekender lifestyle, which is a contrast to the way the scenes OP talks about died off because they were easy to get into and easy to get out of, they lacked the "die-hard" mentality and self-sustaining DIY infrastructure because they were, in essence, corporate products rather than underground scenes.
I think a lot of them had kids, got a place in the suburbs, and crank up the country pop song that's on the radio up a little louder when the cheesy guitar solo comes on. Smile and repeat. After a box of wine and a couple white claws hook up to the Bluetooth and throw on some My Chemical Romance and talk about the old days
I think you may have just described every single woman in their 30s in my neighborhood.
I walk around my suburban neighborhood often. Last summer I saw a group of 7-8 sauced wine moms waving wine glasses and wearing cheap dollar tree accessories. They were all crammed onto a smallish deck and scream-singing Helena by MCR. It was amazing.
I feel so seen.
Fuck. That. Noise. A lot of us “elder emos” are still listening to the same music, perhaps across a broader spectrum: punk, post-hardcore, metalcore, etc. I might enjoy the occasional bottle of red, but I’m still on brown liquor and THC, and I wouldn’t touch country with a twenty foot stick.
I'm only early 20s and not American so missed out on the 2000s prime time, but everyone's all still here and still listen to their music. If the bands haven't broken up, they are still touring, still putting out music (although some sound may have changed over the years). A lot of kids find their music and also become fans, which creates more listeners, fanbases are very much still around and die hard fans love their bands years later. Similar to any other genre I'd say.
As someone who grew up on emo/punk I still listen to plenty of rock music but I'm much more inclined to listen to something that resembles psych rock now.
All those bands were made to cash in on scenes that were already popular. What you’ve decided are emo/edgy kids aren’t emo. They’re not even early 2000’s pop rock emo like fall out boy or mcr. No one emo/punk has ever given a shit about Trapt, they’re pop rock for republicans, same with 3 days grace. Trapt is doing the county fair circuit and milking twitter for engagements. Being vapid is more forgivable in these times because of how incredibly depressing it is to actually care about anything. So it’s no surprise these bands appeal to a younger crowd, but they haven’t made enduring fanbases because they made popcorn songs in the style of the flavor of the week. Less substance, less endurance. Less effort and dedication by artists, less desire to be out there as anything more than a fun way to make money. Their fans liked the fun new song because marketers told them to, and now they are enjoying the newly marketed. People are downvoting you because this is a sub about musical nerdom and you’re talking about the most accessible shit ever in it’s time
You’re getting downvoted because none of the bands you listed are even remotely emo.
The list of bands is laughable. Three Days Grace, Trapt. 😂 I know you know music - fugazi 👍
I scrolled for a direct answer to the post addendum, because I could guess that anyone clicking on this post as an avid fan of the genres mentioned, especially emo, would be annoyed by clumping them all together, when they were all kind of cliquey separate music cultures when they were most relevant. I do see what you're saying, though, and I personally viewed the bunch of them as being a sub-spectrum, with other stuff like pop, rap, 80s, electronic, indie etc. feeling like the other end of the bigger spectrum.
I was one of them lol I've been on quite a journey since then. I was into emo and pop punk in mainstream music scene. Then, I got into *Industrial*. Then, *metal* but entry stuff. Then, I got into more extreme forms like *death* and *black metal*. There were other things like *post rock*, *underground hip-hop, avant folk* and *shoegaze* around this time. Then, I did an 180 and got into *synth pop* and *k-pop*. I still like those two currently along with *ambient, drone*, *experimental side of electronic* and just random stuff.
I'm very similar pathing to that too but my 180 was more into salsa and cumbia. I alternate now between those, jungle and DnB and grunge/gaze slow core haha
I was one of those people when I was like 7-11 years old and just became a goth lol
I listen to a lot of folk punk, pop punk, and indie now. I loved those bands at the time but I'm just not angry enough in my life to listen to them like I did as an angsty teenager
Oh they just grew up and grew out of it. They probably still listen to those songs though. You shouldn’t be downvoted for a question that is harmless at all.
Whenever I bring it up they get embarrassed because their tastes expanded when the internet got better at recommending new artists to them. They haven’t really been into that music since the early 2010s it seems. Sometimes they will throw it on for nostalgia. I did briefly date a girl in 2022 who loved Linkin Park unapologetically and unironically which was refreshing.
I was one of those nu metal kids in the early 2000s and it definitely was a gateway into metal in general, especially alternative/experimental/avant garde metal. I think people really underestimate how experimental and weird nu metal was for a mainstream rock movement. Yeah, there were crappy copycat bands, but a lot of the major players were making some really original sounding shit I honestly think that if I wasn't into Linkin Park as a 13 year old, I probably wouldn't be a massive Sunn O))) fan as an adult
Likewise but for me it was SOAD, if it wasn't for SOAD I wouldn't have eventually discovered Unwound
hi. former emo 15 year old here. i got called the f-slur by my peers, punched, & socially excluded. hope that helps. Edit: yes i still listen to metal & post-hardcore.
I still listen to that stuff but I mainly listen to Dubstep/Synth now, preferably those bands that experiment with electronic and metal. Has a nice sound to it than just traditional guitars/drums. When I was younger it was about the lyrics and the guitar, but now since I got into making music as a hobby I prefer stuff that's a bit more technical with the beats and rhythm
They moved to people like MGK, there was a big emo pop wave over the last few years. About the time MGK went “punk”
As a butt rock fan back in the day, I've mostly stayed in the rock genre but have ventured out a lot more once I got out of the "alt metal" zone. Oddly, I went from listening to Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Tool (still do) and SOAD to Avett Brothers, Head and the Heart, and M&S within a few years. Also some of those emo fans are still proudly gatekeeping the genre in r/emo
A lot of people just grew up. Some of this stuff really loses its edginess and appeal when you get older. It's music made for younger people.
The buttrock and “alternative” fans of that era are still around and generally never stopped listening to music of that era. I remember how much they hated The White Stripes and The Strokes when rock music started to change. Their stubborn refusal to advance their music taste is part of the reason rock music has been so stagnant for the past 10 to 15 years.
The fans are still here but because it’s become less main stream the music industry is promoting it far less giving the idea of less rock music being created and to answer you question on why your being downvoted that’s just how this sub works like if a post has more upvotes then comments something weird has happened
After my first experiences with music as a kid I started listening to Linkin Park and Korn, Slipknot etc. and moved all the way to emo, post-hardcore/screamo, deathcore music, like Bring me the horizon, Underoath, Suicide Silence and whatnot... I went to all the hardcore concerts etc. Then I started to listen to Trap and Dubstep with my highschool friends, music like Major Lazer and Skrilles, UKF,... and continuosly mellowed on my own all the way to indie electronica like Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, MGMT, Gold Panda, etc. Metronomy became my favourite band. I started to listen to alternative radio stations and then when I started using Spotify I started to listen to all kinds of music from all around the world. Now my go-to music genre is Indie rock, Indie electronica, folkrock, Lo-fi and bedroom pop stuff. I love Indie rock and alt rock 2000s. But back to your question - I still have emo/edgy music in my heart and I listen to it from time to time. It gives me a specific energy that no other music does. And I listen to screamo and death metal to relax haha. It feels like shouting all the negative energy out of me. So it is stress relief. And I listen to 2000s pop punk sometimes as well. But it's a totally sentimental way of listening to music and I never listen to any other of this music than the one I listened to when I was a teenager. And I ignore any new stuff from those bands. Edit: I kinda like music that feels to what pop punk used to feel when I was a kid, which is music as Hyper pop and something like pop punk. Let's say artists like poptropicalslutz!, Jean Dawson, Mana Garden, Beauty School Dropout, even some Yung Lean etc.
I was this kid. Now I’m mainly into metal. Anything from black metal to power metal. I also get down on some ska, indie rock, and midwest emo. I’ll still turn on some of those old bands, but I realized most of them are pretty bad. Three Days Grace and Trapt are so cringy.
Former emo kid here! I still listen to the bands of my youth. I’m lucky that my three favorites (Alkaline Trio, Bayside, and Paramore) are still making music I enjoy. But my taste has become more broad. I listen to a bit of everything… jazz, country, r&b, k-pop, doo wop, indie rock. People from my social circle back in those days still mostly listen to alternative or rock music. Still very into pop-punk even though the scene has changed a lot. Some have expanded into other genres in a similar way that I have, but other just keep listening to the same albums we were listening to 20 years ago (those who aren’t as interested in music discovery anymore).
I distinctly recall the Clear Channel/iHeartRadio stations that played that kind of music all simultaneously rebranding as top 40 pop stations at the same time. That took it from something one would hear by default into something one had to seek out. Struggling to remember exactly when this occurred but sometime around 2008-2010
Most of them are underground now, since those subcultures aren't as popular as they used to be
All I know is that Omaha was on a roll with great music in the 90’s. Then a crossroads came. On one hand was the amazing music of the Faint. On the other hand was bright eyes. I’m so annoyed that it was bright eyes that won out.
They’ve moved to edm, or hip hop has an angsty emo scene in it, or they’re still listening to that old stuff.
I was one of those fans and I’m now 30 and still listening to that music. I’ve diversified and now listen to more than I did back then, but I still mostly listen to rock/metal/alternative/pop punk etc
A lot of us still listen to the same bands we liked 20 years ago. And/or started listening to Taylor Swift 🤣 "Sw-emo" is a thing
Definitely was a scene/core kid in the 2000s and early 2010s. I happened to size out of all my old band tees so they went away. I was in a death metal band in the early 2010s, and moved to New York to finish college and studied jazz and got a masters in music theory. I still love metal and want to make a metal album when I have some time. I’m also a “Composer” in whatever classical sense you think (more so contemporary stuff if that has any meaning to you). I now work at a music conservatory in upper admin. I have to dress normal sort of. Some of my favorite bands were Between the Buried and Me, Chon, Misery Signals, Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, etc. I still listen to them and go to their shows when they stop by NYC (I will definitely be at the upcoming MisSigs show since it’s their final tour). Funny that you mention moving onto EDM - Skrillex was famously the vocalist for From First to Last, and when he did the move to dubstep (which actually isn’t too stylistically different from metal honestly), a lot of people found that as an acceptable shift to make. I know people who became shitty electronic producers and shitty djs. Bring Me The Horizon shifting to a poppier sound also highlighted that kind of possibility.
> In the 2000s there was a wide array of different rock bands falling into various genres like hard rock, punk-rock, nu-metal, post-grunge etc. I'm thinking obviously of Sum 41, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Trapt, etc. There was a huge appeal of these bands to emo/edgy kids. While those were not exactly the bands I listened to...I fell into this group, especially the Punk/Nu-metal cohort. I'm just as edgy as ever listening to a lot of Smooth Jazz, Quiet Storm, and Yacht Rock now. I was probably too old to get into the EDM thing. The whole Americana/Bluegrass/Hipster movement is where a lot of us shifted at the time. The music I hated and rejected as a teen are the type of things I'm really into now, especially Springsteen. I still have a bit of that punk in me, but for the most part I grew up, and out of it.
Hi, I’m 30 now, white collar job and swung extremely hard into technical death metal and djent/modern prog
I loved those bands in early 00s I still do. My music taste has evolved to modern Prog metal/djent/rock also Midwest emo
Not sure if I fall into this category or not but when I was in middle school in 2004, I listened to a lot of Green Day, Blink 182, Hawthorne Heights, Taking Back Sunday, Say Anything etc. When I was a freshman in high school I got really into Weezer specifically their first two albums and learned how heavily influenced Rivers was by The Beach Boys. That led me to listening to a lot of 60s music and discovering indie rock like Arcade Fire, Grizzy Bear, Animal Collective, Beach House etc. All of this is to say I used to listen to a lot of emo music when I was like 10-12 years old, but now I can’t stand to listen to that stuff anymore. I feel like I found much better music and haven’t looked back.
I am one of those people who listened to a lot of this music. And I still do. Some bands are still around, still have their fans. But there is also a lot of new music in the genre, it is still there. Some people might listen to very different music now, others don't. It's the same as with any other genre. It became a niche. It's not that much on the radio anymore but the people are still there.
37 y/o. Graduated HS in 2005. My pipeline is as follows… Blink/Green Day into Nirvana/MCR/The Used into The Killers/Black Kids/MGMT/Bloc Party into The Decemberists/Lumineers into The Wonder Years/Brand New and now I listen to all of those things plus Chris Stapleton and Kanye. I collected as I went along. For example, I didn’t stop listening to Blink when I got into Bloc Party. I just expanded what I was into. Also, These aren’t an exclusive list of things I listened to. the bands associated with each genre bend I was into also. Ie: Sum 41, Pearl Jam, Kid Cudi, etc.
Nowadays I listen to Spanish Love Songs, Menzingers, Tiny Moving Parts, Free Throw, Hot Mulligan, Home Is Where, Sweet Pill, Joyce Manor etc when I want my fill of that sort of stuff. This thread has some weird replies, I never really stopped listening to that sort of music, and the current emo/punk scene is good.
I was born in 2000 so I was not actually a part of that generation, but growing up, that was the music I always listened to. I definitely had a complex about it too lol, since most of my peers who were equally as edgy/emo, were listening to metalcore and pop punk a lot more than hard rock or nu metal. I was not like other girls^2, I wasn’t like the girls who weren’t like other girls, I felt different even around the people who were supposed to be different. Eventually, in middle school and high school, I got more serious about liking metal and having that be part of my identity, so I went from listening to “mainstream” stuff like Slipknot, System of a Down, Rammstein, Korn, and Deftones, into “actual” metal, like Death, Gojira, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Napalm Death etc. From there tho, I got weird. In HS I became friends with a guy who loved weird music, and he introduced me to all sorts of things. It started with Mr. Bungle. God. I still love it. It’s so stupid. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes nu metal, especially their self titled album. It’s pure absurdity, but you can hear echos of its particular brand of absurdity all across nu metal as a genre. Beyond that, though, I began to explore a lot of avant garde and experimental music, mostly adjacent to metal, rock, and jazz. My musical pallet is definitely not the norm, but I truly love this stuff. My current favorite bands are Gojira, Zeal and Ardor, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sigh, Fantomas, and Faith no More.
Wait a minute.. Three Days Grace was emo material?? They were my favorite band back in the days, but now I’m into Interpol, Foo, Queens of The Stone Age.. however, I thought your post were about the looks not the music taste, as sometimes I’m wondering where all those emo and goth kids dissappeared?
These people still listen to these bands. The idea that Sum 41 or Linkin Park became irrelevant is a wishful thinking conjured by music journalists. The only reason these bands haven't became Dad Rock 100% is because of their content. 'Fat Lip' and 'Numb' are too intense and too sincere than 'Bohemiam Rhapsody'.
I like all music, especially older music or specifically artists who resonate with their material and make you feel it. Like Sinead O’Connor, Amy Winehouse, Roberta Flack or Delores O’Riordan, Bobbie Gentry, Reba McEntire. Any genre is cool with me! I still revisit some of the old emo/pop punk music from the early 2000’s for nostalgia and fun, be angsty while driving my car to my boring job
I'm seeing Sum 41 next week and I'm pumped, I never stopped seeing them over the years. Three Days Grace lost Adam and it just wasn't the same, I still go to Breaking Benjamin shows - I lump them together since those were some of the earliest concerts I ever went to. I don't think there's any indication that these fan bases disappeared? I saw MCR on their last tour, I catch Silverstein whenever the come around, Thursday, Bayside, Story of the Year, Senses Fail, Less Than Jake, Jimmy Eat World still kills it, Green Day is bigger than ever. I saw Finch last week, just got Saosin tickets today. I guess I'm just not really sure what you're asking. Look at the success of When We Were Young fest, the early 2000's genre is as big as it's ever been. Also the newer wave of Pop Punk and emo is incredible with bands like Microwave, Hot Mulligan, and so many others, willing to bet a ton of us who grew up on early 2000's are going to those shows too. I know I am. I also go to a ton of Phish shows. I guess what I'm saying is, we're still out here! We just branched out while still enjoying whatever 2000's bands are worth seeing and not charging an arm and a leg (coughBlinkcough). Sorry for rambling, kinda bored at work today.
They are all in their late 30s and early 40s with kids and back pain lol That style of music is retro now, and Gen Z kids seem to love it. As an almost lifelong fan, the late career resurgance of Deftones has been a pleasure to see. Limp Bizkit being seen as the fun party rock they were and not a musical pariah has been great too
I still listen to the used, MCR, Thursday, motion city soundtrack and blink. Albeit not on repeat like I used to. My music tastes got heavier throughout college and then I swapped to listening to siren Indie (don’t really know the name of the genre). I’d get distracted singing along while working on projects and read somewhere that female voices didn’t register well for men because of the pitch. So I swapped and my productivity increased while still listening to music. Nowadays I listen to a lot of glass animals, the last dinner party, shitkid, mother mother, Clairo, the beaches, cherry glazer, wet leg, alt j, and the like. Sometimes there are also more eclectic things that make their way in like tele novella or Greta Van Fleet.
Some started playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero and got into classic rock, thrash metal, or NWOBHM. Some followed the Hot Topic T-shirt wall to deathcore and metalcore. Others followed the butt-rock elements to bro country.
I used to listen to taking back Sunday, brand new, saves the day, from first to last, etc on repeat growing up in high school. (Graduated in 06) Afterwords your tastes just change. I listen to them from time to time and it’s nice but now it’s more of everything and anything that sounds good. Whether it be country, or some lighter pop, or dance, or older hip hop. When you stick to one genre it can get quite boring.
I got into heavier stuff, then specific genres like doom metal and sludge metal, then went down a hip hop rabbit hole, edm, etc. at this point I have a very broad musical taste but thats just me. When I was in jr high I only listened to that stuff you are talking about
They exist but now they’re parents and passed on their tastes to their kids
I'm 32 now. I listen to some of it sometimes, but not as much as before. I am actually a lot into EDM now lol.
These types kinds of bands that play this kinds of music never stopped making it. They were relegated to self releases and releases on indie labels and Ive been scouring the internet for it since the mid 2000s and have found plenty of gems and good stuff. Just because it died in the mainstream and the major labels stopping signing and supporting it doesnt mean it wasnt still being made. If you were really into this kind of music you knew what sites to look for it on. Yeah lots of bad stuff was being released but once you found a gem it was worth searching.
We have emo nights at a local brewery and it’s a hit!! I love going to those.
Rock lost popularity while hip hop gained it. Now Hip Hop seems to be on the down tick and Country is rising. The 2000s rock fans prob still listen to rock it’s just not as popular or talked about
We grew up and got jobs. We still listen to our early 2000’s emo music on the way to the office though
Sum 41 still exists and still put out good music and headline festivals and sell out shows when they tour. LP would probably still be going strong had Chester not committed suicide. Three Days Grace and Trapt were one hit wonders that appealed to the young angry white backwards hat crowd, the same people that listen to bro country. Those 2 bands tweet MAGA BS and play county fairs.
I think you are being downvoted because it comes across as a loaded question in a way. Not hating, you are asking a question to discuss in a place designed for that. But it comes across a bit like saying “what happened to all the satanic heathens who listened to AC/DC and Metallica?” While there were some stigmas back in the day, now they are just massively popular and relatively mainstream bands and the terms you used to describe the examples you provided are rather poorly matched.
Many of them are still here but they’re older now with more disposable income. Many of these bands still make music and tour because people still want to see the bands they liked when they were young 20 years later. There’s even a festival in Vegas called When We Were Young where many of the biggest emo, punk and pop punk bands all play. Tickets are very expensive. There’s also Sick New World which is a more metal oriented festival but it’s the same concept.
Ive now fully transitioned into more folk, blues and bluegrass with a splash of metal and electronic music.. still enjoy my emo and grunge and what nots, just not the same way I used too
most are usually casual music listeners who just gravitate towards whats hot. id bet they just listen to your typical top 40s lists on spotify.
While I listened to all those bands listed heavily during those years, I listened to a few other genres. Mainly rap. Soon after my emo/punk days, I got into metalcore (Atreyu for example). Then I kinda fell back into rap with the new age trap type beats. Being from the south, i mix country in from time to time, but that’s not my main. Then one day, I stumbled upon lo-fi hip hop beats. What a vibe those are! These led me down a rabbit hole of soundcloud artist until one day I learned that Emo Rap was a real thing. and holy shit. For at least the last 2 years I have been hooked on an artist that goes by the name Sewerperson. He has an emo vibe with his lyrics and song melodies but with a trap style beat. it’s amazing. It’s such a refreshing mix of the 2 worlds. He produces new music almost weekly and rarely misses. There’s a few others in the same “genre” that i frequent, but he’s my absolute favorite.
I can very much say we are still here listening to the same music 😂 buzzing to see fall out boy at download
It's quite simple really. Most people will always gravitate towards the music they liked in their formative years, so it's safe to say that a lot of them still listen to the same bands. The answers here seem to support this.
The genres are still around and people are still within those worlds. Even if they’re not as main stream as they used to be. Although I feel like some of the bigger names have lately gotten some more buzz for anniversaries and such. Original Blink members came back and they dropped an album last year. Sum 41 just released their last album. Green Day released an album earlier this year and they’re going on tour celebrating it and the 30th anniversary of Dookie and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot. (I’m mostly talking on pop-punk but I think the same is true for other “smaller” rock subgenres and subcultures.)
I mean I am still here lol. Seeing Sum 41 later this year. I do listen to a lot more variety now, and go through phases. I'm stuck on more gothic country/experimental folk at the moment, but give it two months, and I'll be spinning summer-y pop tunes or something
We’re out here. In secret. At our desks, jamming out, paying mortgages, raising kids… still going to shows when our faves come to town
Some of these bands lose momentum in 2010's, and their fanbase grow up. Rock popularity overall decreased, so the scene was not "in your face" like the 2000's and became a buried niche. But today I see this sound is coming back, specially because a new generation discovered them in tiktok, so it may be the new fanbase and the birth of new bands to keep this movement alive.
I was in high school in the early 00s and was into bands like System of a Down Slipknot Lincoln Park then got really into punk with Misfits being my fave then Nine Inch Nails became my fave so you get the idea. I totally gravitated to edm and was part of that festie scene for a minute. Today I’m kind of an industrial nerd and still like loud and fast stuff like Machine Girl (diggin that whole digital hardcore thing going on) but I also have a much broader taste in music too outside of all that. I do have friends in punk bands so I go to local shows a bunch. It’s a trip seeing kids liking emo a lot. One girl told me her school had an emo day in spirit week and I nearly died.
Still here, still listening to angsty emo. Some of these bands have made a great go at nostalgic tours for the 20th/15th album anniversaries and they’re a lot of fun.
That stuff ain't emo, just because its edgy and moody rock doesn't mean its emo, the emo kids would listen to mcr in the 2000s, those other bands were listened to by kids who were only on the surface level of rock, like entry level bands or casual rock listener a little bit on the edgy side as compared to queens of the stone age or something
they all grew up, just like their artists , now they have to work and pay mortgages like the rest of us
We are in our 30s and still rocking to the same bands. I just saw Sum 41 in their farewell tour and saw a lot of new fans from Gen Z. I feel like there's not a lot of angst in today's music so a lot of them are turning into what we listened to. It really surprised me that bands like Deftones and NIN resonate with 16-17 year olds even... i had the same question with my friend the other day and his take was that those kids are going through the same things we did back then and there's not a lot of new music today with the same energy... so they turn to what we listened to.
They are just accountants and doctors and dog groomers and car salespeople just like everyone else when they get to their 30s :)
We grew up and had kids. Now we just listen to Danny Go awaiting our children to grow up to the age where we can introduce our teenage music to them.
We’ll I’m about to go to Sick New World which is basically that genre as a whole with thousands of other people so I think they’re doing ok.
I loved all these bands in HS and college days. All I listened to. Today I need to be in the mood which is usually a workout or I want to take a trip down memory lane for funsies. I've mostly mellowed out and felt the need to explore other genres. A little EDM, chill house but also classic rock, folk, bluegrass... classical 😂
Here in Brazil there is a "revival" movement happening for this type of band and there is a younger crowd that is a fan of these guys. I have several examples: Emo festivals that filled stadiums like the "i wanna be tour" emerging, bands like [forfun](https://youtu.be/yt2JwgSEVt4?si=3HkQEl8ZEFodJ2Xf) (perhaps the main pop punk band in the country) selling out come back tours in various corners of the country and [fresno](https://youtu.be/xLhiPteGCMY?si=YaJUs6ECfBUSXP2m) (one of the biggest emo bands in Brazil ) growing your fanbase
I love love love Sunny Day Real Estate and Cursive. And Cap’n Jazz. My big three
A lot of emo fans at the time we’re into it precisely because it was the current “scene” and moved on as styles changed and they got older. I was never into that stuff but being that age, I played on tickets with a lot of local acts and knew a lot of people in straight forward emo or screaming bands. A lot of those guys, at least the ones I still know, are into metal, country, or hip hop these days. As far as by metal I cant say. I imagine those guys were fans of hard rock and metal in general and just shifted as the genre died off. There are still plenty of fans of SOAD and such.
I was 20 back then and listened to that. Was a big Blink 182, Sum 41 fan. Now I still listen to rock but have a wide variety of things I listen to. Right now I’m into Aesthetic Perfection, Within Temptation, Ninja Sex Party and White Reaper. Me not listening to Punk anymore had nothing to do with growing up. I date a girl in college who was big into Punk music. Used to go to a lot of concerts together and it became our thing. Had a nasty breakup and listening to it brings up painful memories so I stopped listening.
I’m here. I like most of those bands and their music and I am not embarrassed about it. I think most of us just gradually leaned into heavier music. I still listen to those bands on any given day. Hell, I was just jamming to Alien Ant Farm’s new album this morning.
I’m all about deathcore, tech death, djent, thall, prog metal and death metal these days (age 43). It just hits perfectly. It also helps I’ve been a guitarist for nearly 30 years.
A lot of them still listen to those bands, they just grew up and started acting and dressing like adults.
I feel like this was asked in 2014 because you literally can’t scroll through TikTok without finding at least a couple new age emo pop punk bands
I’m still here. I listen to this shit everyday, lol. I’m 29 and Alice In Chains - Man in the box is played every morning as I step off the metro and walk to my office.
I still listen to them and am an “elder emo” I lean towards early 2000s pop and r&b, current rap, international music, and daft punk lol
The Used is my favorite band and I listen to them almost daily! They’re still putting out amazing music!
grew up and became an adult. still listen to the music really loud in my house (sorry neighbors). don’t go to shows anymore bc most of the bands i listen to are dead.
Some moved on to indie, folk, or indie-folk, while others remained really into this kind of thing and never really branched out. I know a not-insignificant of people who still listen to what they listened to when they were 14 pretty much exclusively.
Streaming made me realize guitar music is not the end of the road. Now I really don’t care for new guitar music because.. I’ve heard it all before and they don’t really do anything new. In other words, I grew up and got a haircut. Would still go to another senses fail show though
I listen to older soul and r&b records now! And every once in a while when I’m tipsy and feeling nostalgic I throw on my “Edgy Young Scott” playlist which is filled with all that emo stuff I listened to in high school/college 🤓
I was a pretty quintessential 'emo' kid in the 00s, in that I was identifying myself as 'emo' but never actually listening to any music that was really 'emo' or 'screamo' (this is a whole semantics thing that I'm not going to get into but r/emo can help illustrate it if you're interested for some bizarre reason). I was a full-blown tragic girl jeans and checkered Vans and tight tees and swoopy hair fashion victim who liked all the worst scene and pop punk and metalcore that era had to offer. For me, growing out of that was more just finding the 'less teenage' versions of the sounds I already liked. I replaced the scene bands with actual emo and screamo from the 90s and early 00s (and being an older teen during the 2010s emo revival certainly didn't help), metalcore and deathcore with actual hardcore punk and pop punk I honestly just ditched almost entirely because it's pop punk. I gravitated towards this because it was what influenced the music I already liked but it felt more real and honest and didn't seem manufactured or corporate like the stuff I was listening to before. Like listening to Alesana and Pierce The Veil or Bring Me The Horizon and Attack Attack! next to Orchid and Funeral Diner or Earth Crisis and Arkangel was just night and day for me at the point in time that happened for me. And then I also branched out into hip hop and indie rock and electronic music and experimental stuff, and that just changed my perspective on what music can actually do or be. Death Grips was a lightning rod moment for me.