There’s no home test kit where Olivia Rodrigo can do a cheek swab and find out she’s three percent Rites of Spring, but if you believe in musical genealogy, there is a line you can trace from the hardcore punk of Washington, D.C., circa 1984 to the summit of the current Billboard albums chart. It’s strange, but it’s real, and no matter how hard anyone fights it, everyone keeps calling it “emo.”
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