“The emo scene and MySpace formed a connected loop. As one grew, so did the other.”

Michael Tedder is the author of ‘Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music,’ which is available now. He will be speaking with Rob Sheffield at Word on August 15) and August 17 at The Strand with Geoff Rickly of Thursday. Here is an excerpt from a section about the intersection of Myspace and emo in 2003. By June of 2004, MySpace had more than one million unique users per month. Unique is the operative term here, since people just couldn’t stop using the site to express themselves. While MySpace’s capacity for endless customization would eventually be one of the many headaches that would lead to the site’s downfall, for a while it was one of its most attractive features. As an added bonus, it gave many young people a crash course in how HT...

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