To encourage the horse to round and/or laterally bend its neck and back. Execution:
- The Spirit Soundtrack: The film had a passionate cult following, and the soundtrack (often featuring Bryan Adams) provided the raw emotional material that ironic remixers craved.
- Remix Culture: This was the golden age of the mashup. Girl Talk was touring, and software like Audacity and Fruity Loops were becoming accessible to teenagers. Everyone wanted to be a producer.
- The Scene Kid Exodus: As MySpace began its slow decline and Tumblr rose, the scene subculture was looking for a new identity. They moved from purely "emo" to a more electronic, hip-hop-influenced "crunkcore" sound (think BrokeNCYDE or 3OH!3). Horsecore fit neatly into this chaos—it was emo enough for the feelings, but electronic enough for the party.
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