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By TOM RAWSTORNE. Last updated at 09:46 16 May 2008. Hannah was a happy 13-year-old until she became an 'emo' - part of a sinister teenage craze that romanticises death. Three months later she...
In 2006, The Daily Mail ran an article issuing an “emo cult warning for parents,” in which it described emo as a teenage trend “characterised by depression, self-injury, and suicide.”
In 1984, 19-year-old Ozzy Osbourne fan John McCollum took his own life – his parents alleged that the lyrics to the rock legend’s song, Suicide Solution, were a “proximate cause” of their ...
In its reporting, the Daily Mail ran a story headlined ‘Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo’. It wasn’t the Mail’s first story of this kind: two years earlier, it had provided an ‘Emo cult warning for parents’, detailing some of the tell-tale signs to look out for.
In its reporting, the Daily Mail ran a story headlined ‘Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo’. It wasn’t the Mail ’s first story of this kind: two years earlier, it had provided an ‘Emo cult warning for parents’, detailing some of the tell-tale signs to look out for.
So-called "emo kids" were mocked by the genre’s forebearers and vilified in the tabloid press, with the scene accused in column inches of being cult-like and even promoting self-harm (BBC...
This article first briefly explores how emo emerged and how it has been linked to the idea of a crisis. It then moves on to conduct a lyrical, discursive analysis around three themes: emotional expression and relationships; overt chauvinism; and ‘beta male misogyny’.
