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‘Emo boy got the party lit’: The UK underground has a new identity crisis

Dazed 20 March 2026 Yesterday
‘Emo boy got the party lit’: The UK underground has a new identity crisis
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The likes of EsDeeKid and his UK Ug peers fuse disparate subcultural aesthetics – something that would’ve been unthinkable in the 2000s. Emma Garland reports on how the style divides collapsed
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