British fans of My Chemical Romance plan to give the U.K. Daily Mail newspaper their wrath for its coverage of a teenage girl who authorities say killed herself to impress her emo friends. They'll march in protest on March 31. Indeed, it's not like any ire at the paper isn't justified. Sure, it was investigators who put came up with the emo/suicide theory for Hannah Bond's death. But the Mail really gave this story the full tacky tabloid treatment. Here's a bit from a May 16 article entitled, "Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo": "Hanna was a happy 13-year-old until she became an 'emo' -- part of a sinister teenage craze that romanticises death. Three months later, she hanged herself."
Does this remind anyone of the "Suicide Solution" days in the 1980s? To paraphrase a quote from Jello Biafra from that era: it takes a real chickenshit adult to blame a kid's death on music. [Aversion]
I dislike music that's considered emo nowadays, but it's wrong that the Mail is blaming emo as if it's some kind of cult.