Swetty is Japan’s modern emo rock star

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This article is partly taken from the summer 2026 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here.There’s a spiritual connection between 00s emo rock bands like My Chemical Romance and the midwestern hyperpop of artists like Glaive over two decades later – a sort of fatalistic teenage angst that froths over into maximalist instrumentation. Transplant thesehellip;read more raquo;