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Since emo’s underground fourth-wave scene crossed over and became a visible phenomenon on the Billboard charts last year its become distorted under the conspiratorial scrutiny of folks apprehensive about the term “emo revival.” In the past year I’ve read plenty of anti-trend pieces more focused on the misleading nature of the phrase “emo revival” than on why people might use the term in the first place.