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Be My Escape project, essays + podcasts on Pop & Emo 1999 - 2009

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Mxhdroom @mxhdroom.bsky.social · Oct 29
Come listen to me and journalist Katherine Dee wax lyrical on the Emo revival, nostalgia and a whole lot of MySpace. Critical analysis, not just nostalgia goggles.

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Be My Escape
Listen now | ft. Sam L. Barker
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🎸 🖤 🤘 New publication just dropped, and this time it's open access! 🎸 🖤 🤘

Williams, J. N., & Sobande, F. (2025). Note to scene: Gender, race and rose-tinted nostalgia in emo. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). lnkd.in/eMmjq6ue
Image including an abstract for an academic journal article titled 'Note to scene: Gender, race and rose-tinted nostalgia in emo': Abstract Twenty years on from its mainstream breakthrough, the popularity of emo music has resurged, offering new opportunities to appraise its cultural legacy. While acknowledging the creative and cathartic qualities of emo as fans, we reflect on how the intersections of race and gender have (not) been thoroughly engaged with in prior research on the genre. We also demonstrate how improvements concerning representation in emo are still constrained, with people of colour (POC) – particularly Black women – carrying heavy self-advocating responsibilities. Through a two-part case study – first, the marketing and booking of When We Were Young festival and second, a reflexive first-person analysis of music journalism surrounding emo’s ‘new wave’ acts – we explore how emo has been (re)branded for old(er) and new(er) generations in the 2020s, how musical belonging and expertise is negotiated within the culture, and how nostalgia narratives can serve to romanticize emo’s exclusionary past at the expense of its more inclusive future. Keywords: Black alt, emo, gender, music festivals, music journalism, nostalgia, popular music, punk, race, subculture
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
mxhdroom.bsky.social
My first Be My Escape in a while. Tackling the beauty of piano-driven Emo, gender and adulthood via Straylight Run

#emo #poppunk #nostalgia #straylightrun

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Straylight Run - Straylight Run
existentialism on prom night - Sing me something soft, sad and delicate, we're loud and out of key- sing me anything.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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🐠 LISTENCORP 006 🐠

We dive into Frutiger Aero, speaking to the term's creator and artists like @xploshi.bsky.social and @dotnds.bsky.social.

We talked to @catsystemcorp.bsky.social about News at 11 and making music for NASA...

But that's not all...

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The sixth edition of listencorp is here!
Frutiger Aero, 猫 シ Corp., DATAGIRL and much more. Plus... our first ever physical release
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January 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A pleasure to bring out another edition of listencorp 🐠

Shoutout to @mxhdroom.bsky.social for the fantastic @catsystemcorp.bsky.social as well, a wonderful secondary feature. And thanks to everyone else involved in its production or who has picked one up.
listencorp.org listencorp @listencorp.org · Jan 15
🐠 LISTENCORP 006 🐠

We dive into Frutiger Aero, speaking to the term's creator and artists like @xploshi.bsky.social and @dotnds.bsky.social.

We talked to @catsystemcorp.bsky.social about News at 11 and making music for NASA...

But that's not all...

www.listencorp.co.uk/post/the-six...
The sixth edition of listencorp is here!
Frutiger Aero, 猫 シ Corp., DATAGIRL and much more. Plus... our first ever physical release
www.listencorp.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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powerful artifact

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Advent Children AMV~My Way Home is Through You-MCR
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January 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Happy New Years Eve :) have a good one
December 31, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Cancelled or not, I will continue to draw OFMD Ed ✨
Digital illustration of Ed Teach/Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death. He is in the right hand side of the frame, resting on the ship steering wheel looking out wistfully, his hair pulled behind his head in a bun. The illustration is in a loose, sketchy style and the background is a soft mauve with white doodled stars littering the image.
February 15, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Tell All Your Friends (about my Taking Back Sunday essay)

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Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
you're so last genre | On the spicy, never-bettered debut album by Emo's skinniest MySpace lotharios.
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November 16, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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#MyChemicalRomance

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If You Could Be Anything, What Would You Be?
My Chemical Romance kickstart my heart | Something is coming, and now is the time.
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November 12, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Quick thoughts on the #MyChemicalRomance cryptic image here!!!

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If You Could Be Anything, What Would You Be?
My Chemical Romance kickstart my heart | Something is coming, and now is the time.
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November 11, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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mxhdroom.bsky.social
Come listen to me and journalist Katherine Dee wax lyrical on the Emo revival, nostalgia and a whole lot of MySpace. Critical analysis, not just nostalgia goggles.

default.blog/p/be-my-esca...
Be My Escape
Listen now | ft. Sam L. Barker
default.blog
October 29, 2024 at 5:20 PM
mxhdroom.bsky.social
Come listen to me and journalist Katherine Dee wax lyrical on the Emo revival, nostalgia and a whole lot of MySpace. Critical analysis, not just nostalgia goggles.

default.blog/p/be-my-esca...
Be My Escape
Listen now | ft. Sam L. Barker
default.blog
October 29, 2024 at 5:20 PM
mxhdroom.bsky.social
Come listen to me meditate on the My Chemical Romance's Black Parade as it turns 18. From freakish Emo experiment to one of the greatest albums of the 00s.

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#mychemicalromance #blackparade #theblackparade #podcast #wwwy
Podcast Essay: My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Listen now | march march march - On one of the greatest rock albums of the 00s. My Chemical Romance's defiant, theatric follow up to Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. The pompous death march of The Blac...
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October 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Winamp Skin: Blue line
October 22, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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"Internally Aligned" Limited Edition Art Print now available on the shop.
October 19, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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i moderately wish i was at #whenwewereyoung
October 19, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Windows XP
October 19, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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I can't deny it, there's something refreshing about starting off with a clean washed slate like this.
October 18, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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If you had any doubts, we can clear them up now. Emo music not only still exists — it's thriving.
Emo music not only still exists — it's thriving
If you had any doubts, we can clear them up now. Emo music not only still exists — it's thriving.
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October 18, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Read my Emo and Pop Punk essays here:

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Be My Escape | Sam L Barker | Substack
Journeys into Pop & Emo. Click to read Be My Escape, by Sam L Barker, a Substack publication. Launched 5 months ago.
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October 18, 2024 at 6:40 PM