谁能想到，EMO再一次成了当代青年文化的代名词之一？诞生自北美地区的硬核运动的它，逐步发展为自成一派的音乐风格与文化生活内容，EMO所带来的广泛影响不只体现在声音的丰富层次上，更在于它曾席卷近乎整个世界的浪潮——从欧洲、拉丁美洲，到东南亚，也包括那个时代，属于我们自己的“情绪中国”。或许是如今的世界每天都在变得更加荒诞与令人绝望，怀念过往已经成了我们为数不多的自我疗愈方式。倾听那时候随身听中常驻的声音，看着TOOKOO、大话@梅、癫狂收音机这些几乎是带着“年代印记”的名字浮现，周遭的一切仿佛便不显得如此苍白。纵使“我们拥有全世界最好的场景”是一句带着滤镜，再客套不过的客套话，但谁在乎呢？沉浸在这些本土优秀情绪之声之时，我们就是愿意如此笃信。既然曾经拥有这些美好，为何放任其悄然消散？这一次，我们选择做那个“长不大”的人，我们想告诉你“这不是一个阶段”从来不是一句用来调侃的流行语，而是通往我们心中伊甸的开门暗号，通往那个或许属于、也或许从未真正属于我们的时代。即便它粗糙、愤怒、充满了伤感，甚至有些不成熟，但却是我们守住感知，对抗这个绝望世界的最后手段。EMO远非一个音乐标签，这三个字母承载了太多太多来自五湖四海间不同个体的共同情感存续。这一次，我们选择将这一切，将《情绪中国 III》以你最熟悉的合辑形式重新汇聚——有那些能使你会心一笑的旧友回眸，更有诞生于新时代，试图复原那个尚未被过度修饰年代的年轻声音。我们希望你体验到的不止是情绪充沛的嘶吼与直抵心脏的真挚旋律，而是一场我们冲破绝望，将世界染上它应有色彩的情感体验。Who would have thought that EMO would once again become one of the defining buzzwords of contemporary youth culture?Born out of the hardcore punk movement in North America, it gradually evolved into a distinct musical genre and cultural lifestyle. The far‑reaching influence of emo is not only reflected in its rich sonic layers, but also in the wave that swept across nearly the entire world—from Europe and Latin America to Southeast Asia, and including, in that era, our very own emo culture in China.Perhaps because the world today grows more absurd and despairing by the day, looking back to the past has become one of the few ways we have left to heal ourselves. Listening to the sounds that once lived permanently in our Walkmans, seeing names like TOOKOO, DAIWAH@MUI, and INFINITE RADIO surface—names almost stamped with the mark of an era—everything around us suddenly seems less pallid. Even if"we have the best scene in the world" is a phrase viewed through rose‑tinted glasses and is the most polite of platitudes, who really cares? When we immerse ourselves in these outstanding local emotional voices, we are willing to believe it with all our hearts.Since we once possessed such beauty, why let it quietly fade away? This time, we choose to be the ones who"never grow up." We want to tell you that"this is not a phase" has never been just a joking catchphrase—it is the password that opens the door to the Eden in our hearts, leading to an era that might have belonged to us, or might never have truly been ours. Even if it is raw, angry, full of sorrow, and even somewhat immature, it is nevertheless our last resort for holding on to perception and resisting this hopeless world.EMO is far more than a musical label; these three letters carry too many shared emotional continuities from countless different individuals across the globe. This time, we choose to bring all of this together—King-Size China III—back in the compilation format you know best: including old friends whose reappearance will bring a knowing smile to your face, and also young voices born in the new era, trying to revive a time that has not yet been over‑polished. We hope you will experience not just emotionally charged screams and heartfelt melodies that strike straight at the soul, but an emotional journey in which we break through despair and color the world with the hues it truly deserves.