crushcore: a bygone era?

read also: bleached tips-core

hi my beautiful bestie,

welcome to What Is This Regarding? where we take a critical lewk at wtf’s going on around us bc lately everything is unraveling and all that’s keeping us together is a loose idea of microtrends SO LETS GET INTO IT!!!!!!!

we all know olivia rodrigo took over the world and it feels easy to be like okay tysm @paramore for walking so Liv could run.

but.

did we speak and thank too soon?

what about our forever-high-school-bois, singing and screaming about their crushes, first dates, heartbreak, their best friend’s girlfriends????

it was a time when things were so simple. where a crush dominated all else. you’d share headphones from your cd player in the back of the bus. high school in the 2000s. a crush would be the reason you’d bleach your tips or go to the mall to cop a new style. enter: crushcore.

crushcore is alien ant farm, Sum 41, the Offspring — softbois who love love.

parallel to this whole moment of crushculture dominating included My So Called Life, 10 Things i Hate About You, Get Over It….and so much more shit that rocked —and was completely crush-curious.

exhibit a: music & lyrics!!!!! blink 182 enters the chat as consensual kings with First Date:

“In the car, I just can't wait to pick you up on our very first date Is it cool if I hold your hand? Is it wrong if I think it's lame to dance? Do you like my stupid hair? Would you guess that I didn't know what to wear? I'm just scared of what you think”

if that’s not fit to print on the away message we’re posting for said first date, IDK WUT IS! I LOVE THESE SENSITIVO ROCK BOIS.

exhibit b: album art fucking rocked and let it rip — a perfect precursur to today’s bangers like Vampire and Good 4 u.

crushcore also celebrates bffs, a wholesome highlight when much of the category includes light blackouts and heavy breakups.

that, my gorgeous readers, is where I’ll leave you today. find your crush today, and if that crush is on yourself i approve!!!!!!!!

<3

i love u like i love a shoebox full of memz,

amy

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