So the daily mail wrote a ridiculous piece on Emos. Victimisation wasn't invented just for them so they can whinge on about it in their livejournals - a wild generalisation maybe, but they do it. right, people of all kinds of different subcultures have been getting ragged on for one reason or another for YEARS. Bands like Panic at The Disco!, Fall Out Boy, MCR, are NOT emo, there pop-punk.īands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes are emo music (to me)įor me I'd rather see a bunch of emo kids walking round than chavs as emo ain't threatening in groups (unlike chavs), their harmless kids who find someone with each other to talk about, they dont all meet up and cut each other and write suicide notes like people would like to think. The music as well it seems any band gets dropped into "emo" if it falls into what the fashion looks like. The thing with "emo" now is that it is a fashion more than the music, over the past 3-5 years I've seen them expand alot, where I live in Leeds the local "hang out spot" for them has seen about 10-15 kids hang about chattin with each other to about 40 now. When I broke up with an ex I used to listen to Dashboard Confessional alot and that helped me, knowing that people cheat, to people all over the world, and im not alone in how I felt, and I could see things in them lyrics that meant alot to me. Yes emo songs are sad, about death, break ups, lose of people, but the lyrics are meant for comfort so people know there not alone in what they are going through. I don't like the fact a top class newspaper as the Daily Mail would stoop so low as to say emo's all cut themselves, dont people in all walks of life do that?! I wouldnt class myself as an emo kid, but they are harmless enough, ok they all look alike, so what.
Don't try to dress stereotypically.'Īccordingly, some fans wore homemade T-shirts with slogans such as 'Think happy thoughts.' The teenagers had initially wanted to march to the Daily Mail's offices off chic Kensington High Street, but police quashed that idea because of security concerns. Most of Saturday's demonstrators were young girls, who chanted: 'Don't blame MCR (My Chemical Romance).' Some dressed in typical emo fashion - tight black jeans, studded belts, dyed black hair - and heeded organisers' website requests to 'consider dressing to suit the day.
It went on to describe emo as a teenage trend exported to Britain from the United States in the 1980s and 'characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide'.