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Are These Midwest Emo Song Titles or Texts From Your Depressed Friend at 2 AM?

If you get any of these song titles as text messages out of the blue, you should really check on your friend.

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Midwest emo has a special way of making us nostalgic for things we can’t actually recall. Maybe these things never even happened, but we yearn for them all the same. The whole idea of Midwest emo, if you’ll forgive the generalization, is to evoke emotion—any emotion—in spite of terrible song structure or vocals. Sometimes because of terrible song structure or vocals. And that occasionally comes with track titles that evoke no-context text messages from your best friend who always seems to be having an Experience in a Situation.

“i just want to kickflip into the sunset and disappear” by Camping In Alaska

Camping In Alaska’s 2013 album Please Be Nice is rough-cut, partially improvised, self-released, and viciously hated by the band for those exact reasons. But it’s a beloved favorite of OG fans who enjoy the........

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