Matt Pryor, the frontman and guitarist of the Get Up Kids, doesn’t consider being called “emo” a term of endearment. To him, it’s more like the opposite — at least that’s how he felt when the band began blowing up after the release of its acclaimed sophomore album, Something to Write Home About, in 1999…
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