{"id":460931,"date":"2026-04-30T06:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/460931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:12:19","slug":"taylor-swift-praises-2-major-2000s-pop-punk-and-emo-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/460931\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Praises 2 Major 2000s Pop-Punk and Emo Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a big week for swemos \u2014 that’s “Swiftie emos” for those of you out of the loop \u2014as Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a0praised a\u00a0pair of 2000s pop-punk\u00a0icons in a new interview with The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Swift, who was named one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters<\/a> by the\u00a0Times, expressed her admiration for\u00a0Dashboard Confessional<\/a>‘s Chris Carrabba<\/a> and Fall Out Boy<\/a>‘s\u00a0Pete Wentz<\/a>, specifically citing their vivid lyricism.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The Best Pop-Punk Album of Each Year of the 2000s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Taylor Swift Was ‘Intensely Impacted by Emo Music’<\/p>\n

“I was the most intensely impacted by emo music, right?”\u00a0Swift said. “Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba. Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz’s lyrics. How they take a common phrase and then they just twist the knife of it, right?”<\/p>\n

Swift then\u00a0got specific.\u00a0“Like, ‘I’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song. Drop a heart, break a name.’\u00a0Right?” she said, citing a line from Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, We’re Goin Down.” “Like, it’s ‘drop a name, break a heart,’ but they switched it. And those are the kind of lyrics where I would read the lyrics to those songs \u2014 or the specificity of ‘Hands Down’ by Dashboard Confessional, where I’d be reading those lyrics and I’d just finish reading a line and just go, ‘Oh, my God.'”<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The Best Love Song by 22 Pop-Punk + Emo Bands<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Swift’s appreciation of pop-punk and emo artists is no secret. She previously collaborated with Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump<\/a> on\u00a0“Electric Touch,” which she released in 2023 as a vault track off\u00a0Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), the re-recording of her 2010 album. She also teamed up with Panic! at the Disco<\/a> lead vocalist Brendon Urie<\/a> on her 2019\u00a0Lover lead single “ME!” And there were tours with Paramore as support<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What Have Pop-Punk and Emo Stars Said About Taylor Swift?<\/p>\n

It’s a mutual admiration society between Swift and the pop-punk stars she’s professed to enjoy. Stump\u00a0previously praised Swift for the consistency of her songwriting and ability to maintain her “sense of self” throughout her vast catalog.<\/p>\n

“The thing that shocks me, that is just jaw-dropping, is the consistency of her work,” the frontman told the Glass Slipping podcast<\/a> last year. “So from the time she’s a kid and she’s writing these songs, they’re her. That’s the thing that’s interesting. You know that she’s working with other writers … but they all sound like her. They all get her. So she must be doing a lot too. She could potentially be doing all of it, for all we know. … But the point is that she is able to have the sense of self to know when to insert and when not to.”<\/p>\n

READ MORE: 11 Essential Early 2000s Emo Albums Everyone Should Own on Vinyl<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Carrabba also expressed his appreciation for Swift on Instagram<\/a>, where he shared the relevant\u00a0excerpt from\u00a0her\u00a0New York Times interview.<\/p>\n

“@taylorswift has been so kind to me over the years,”\u00a0Carrabba wrote. “To hear her express how my songs affected her was a lovely surprise. Everything is connected. I feel fortunate to be a link in the chain.”<\/p>\n

See\u00a0what other rock musicians have\u00a0spoken highly of\u00a0Taylor Swift below:<\/p>\n

20 Rock Musicians Who Have Defended Taylor Swift<\/p>\n

These rockers all had nice things to say about the pop star.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Loudwire Staff<\/a><\/p>\n