Sleeping With Sirens - Alone featuring MGK

Name: Sleeping With Sirens - Alone featuring MGK
Uploaded: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released June 6, 2013, two days after Feel debuted at #3 on the US Billboard 200, 'Alone' featuring MGK was a calculated genre-crossover single bridging the post-hardcore Warped Tour ecosystem and the rap-rock world via MGK's then-active EST 19XX/Bad Boy/Interscope profile. The collaboration reflected a broader early-2010s trend of…

2013 · Post-Hardcore / Pop-Punk Crossover Peak (2013) · music video

Sleeping With Sirens - Alone featuring MGK music video

2013Post-Hardcore / Pop-Punk Crossover Peak (2013)Post-hardcore / Warped Tour-era pop-punk crossover with rap-rock fusion (2010s Rise Records scene)

What this video is

Released June 6, 2013, two days after Feel debuted at #3 on the US Billboard 200, 'Alone' featuring MGK was a calculated genre-crossover single bridging the post-hardcore Warped Tour ecosystem and the rap-rock world via MGK's then-active EST 19XX/Bad Boy/Interscope profile. The collaboration reflected a broader early-2010s trend of scene-adjacent rap artists (MGK, Wiz Khalifa) appearing on alternative rock records…

Why it matters

Represents a key document of the 2013 post-hardcore / rap-rock crossover moment on Rise Records, one of the label's flagship releases before the band's departure to Epitaph in 2014. The MGK feature anticipated the rapper's full genre pivot to pop-punk by nearly a decade, making this video…

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