22 emo songs that helped you through your high-school breakup

Everything was awful and nobody understood

Times were tough for the millions of teenagers that gravitated towards emo music, which took over in the early to mid-2000s. Despite the genre's depressing tendencies, it helped many dark-hearts through those rough times, like your first high school breakup

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