
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?
The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
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Narrated by:
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Graham Halstead
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Chris Abell
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By:
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Chris Payne
An explosive oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MORE
If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-millennium emo subculture that became bigger than anyone thought possible. There was Pete Wentz, the Fall Out Boy leader who launched a litany of scene-stealing bands and preposterous side-hustles, and Gerard Way, the wizard behind My Chemical Romance and The Black Parade. Panic! At the Disco and Paramore emerged soon after—a pair of intrepid outsiders who got massive playing by their own rules. As they ascended, MySpace took over the internet and the age of influencers dawned, with emo its choice aesthetic.
Music journalist Chris Payne experienced emo's mainstream takeover from sweaty crowds and mosh pits growing up in New Jersey. In Where Are Your Boys Tonight? he offers an authoritative, impassioned, and occasionally absurd account told through interviews with more than 150 people, from the scene's biggest bands, producers, and managers to the teenage fans who helped redefine American music culture.
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If you share this fear of reading music journalism about emo music, I can assure you Payne brings none of that attitude to this writing. He celebrates the genre’s successes and ground breaking moments, while not shying away from some of its darker sides. He was able to gather countless hours of interviews with musicians from the scene, weaving their stories together seamlessly (and occasionally presenting different accounts of similar events.) It is so refreshing to read accounts of emo music as an important genre in the history of rock music, rather than just “a fad among teenage girls.” But speaking of teenage girls, Payne also does an excellent job interrogating what spoke to so many young women about the genre (and what very much did not. He is able to look back at emo’s highs and lows with the benefit of hindsight; and I think Payne’s book will become a foundational document in the history of emo.
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The book starts out very very detailed and granular with the New York and New Jersey hardcore and punk scenes and how they helped pave the way for the emo boom. I heard a lot of anecdotes and accounts that I never knew or had forgotten about. I loved that this book gave me context for so many bands I had heard about but never listened to or had just read in line or notes. I was very impressed with how far back they went at the beginning of this book and we're clearly able to draw a line between the late '90s and the mid-2000s.
However the book started to kind of lose me towards the end. The last third or quarter to me mostly felt like a book about Fall out boy and My chemical romance. The author touches on the emo bubble bursting but doesn't really go into how it affected so many bands. The book started out so detailed and covered so many different artists that I was hoping it would circle back to discuss or illustrate how those same artists were affected negatively when the bubble burst (the starting line for example). but by the end of the book it was mainly about Fall out boy and MCR. Much of these stories I already knew and really wanted to hear about how bands like Thursday (whom are set up as lynchpins for the entire story) dealt with the fall out. warped tour 2005 with such a large part of this book and yet warped tour 2008 or 2009 weren't touched upon. It would have been nice to see the contrast between they're more successful year (2005) And how the tour was affected as taste started to change.
I'll also add that while it was cool to get first hand accounts from people like Pete Wentz and Gabe Seporta, I feel like because people like them were so heavily featured you didn't really hear much negative things about him or others. Members of Brand new were not in this book but we're probably painted the worst of all. i think if the book was more second hand accounts it could have been more transparent about certain people and events. I appreciate the honesty about how some bands acted but it seemed odd that some got a lot of flack and others didn't (Fall out boy).
Starts strong but becomes all about FOB and MCR
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