Some of the songs are celebratory, some are sad, and some are angry, but all of them are pure emo and pop punk energy. Honestly, no time is ever really wasted – you can learn something from your ...

Pop punk and emo are cut from the same musical cloth ... and had to go to a lot of "s---y Top 40" shows. "It wasn't our style so we would hang out beforehand and listen to music," Freed says.

These emo and pop punk love songs from the early 2000s are the perfect soundtrack for those 'butterfly in my tummy' feels. A little bit of pop punk, a bit of electronica, a lot of heart ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore ... etc), and fans of that particular style/region need to check out Chivàla’s debut album Boato ...