![]() The lyrics “Roses are red, violets are blue / My heart is dead, I’m such a fool” are ripped right out of the Fueled By Ramen handbook, but don’t add anything to the formula. That may be the problem here: “Roses” sounds like a feedback loop. “The whole Warped Tour movement, everything, I was like ‘How has no one done this yet? How has no one put together the emo dudes with the emo rappers?’… I go to Brendon and I go, ‘Yo would you ever want to get on this?’ He’s like, ‘Dude’ he’s like ‘I copy those guys copying me.” All these kids, Juice WRLD and these types of guys they grew up worshipping these guys,” Blanco told Beats 1’s Zane Lowe. “When this whole wave started with the emo rapping, it’s everything goes in waves. ![]() It works on Juice’s solo efforts, especially the insanely popular “Lucid Dreams,” which has spent months hanging out in the Billboard Top 10. The Chicago artist’s forlorn musings on love and heartbreak (mostly heartbreak) are heavily indebted to the type of emo and pop-punk music that ruled the mid-aughts, Panic! At The Disco foremost among them. ![]() In fairness, a Juice and Urie collaborative effort makes some sense on paper. To what aim is anyone’s guess, but it doesn’t ultimately succeed. On “Roses” Panic! At The Disco‘s Brendon Urie and Benny Blanco recruited hip-hop’s commercial breakout of the year in Juice WRLD, seeking to connect an emo legend with one of his most popular adherents. It’s currently used to describe any rap that’s partially melodic and generally heartbroken, which has led to artists like Drake and Kid Cudi getting lumped into the same category as Lil Peep and XXXTentacion despite having little in common musically. It’s a catch-all and increasingly meaningless term (especially considering its infinitely worse alternate title, “bop-punk”).
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