Should we be scared of emo? The Daily Mail says so. After the suicide of the 13-year-old emo schoolgirl Hannah Bond, who hanged herself in her bedroom in Essex last September, a series of headlines have screamed: “Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo”, while accusing the American emo band My Chemical Romance of encouraging suicide. Across Latin America it’s even worse. Emo kids are subject to violent attacks, prejudice and media abuse. This gloomy, gothic teenage rock cult, which began 20 years ago in America, has never been so controversial.
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