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Kerrang, November 12th 2005, No. 1082, p.46

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Kerrang, Issue 1011, June 26th 2004, p.65

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Kerrang, Issue No.1125, September 16th 2006, p.26-27

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‘How Emo Became a Tabloid Scare Story’, Kerrang, Issue No.1125, September 16th 2006

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‘The World According to Gerad Way’, Kerrang, March 10th 2007, p.32

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Feedback Page, Kerrang, March 10th 2007, page 4

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Emos have a strong arts graduate bias and are among the few that read poetry (if only of the romantic, morbid kind). Some pretty terrible Emo poetry is offered on websites. A cartoon of two Emos has a bubble which says: 'What rhymes with razor blade?'

EMO cult warning for parents, Daily Mail, By SARAH SANDS, 16 August 2006

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The internet has many sites dedicated to Emo fashion (dyed black hair brushed over your face, layering, black, black, black), Emo bands (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), Emo conversation (sighing, wailing, poetry). The Instant Emo Kit site gives advice on identity. Wear a child’s T-shirt with a slogan such as ‘Unhappy Chick’ and drive a Vespa. Above all, 'show your inner despair by looking like you are too sad to eat. Obesity and emocity do not mix.’ The Emo song, by the American band Adam And Andrew, has cult status on the internet, appearing on many personal websites. It is called Dear Diary and is both witty and alarming. The chorus goes: 'Stop my breathing and slit my throat, I must be an Emo. I don’t jump around when I go to shows, I must be an Emo. Dye in my hair and polish on my toes, I must be an Emo. I play guitar and write suicide notes, I must be an Emo.’

EMO cult warning for parents, Daily Mail, By SARAH SANDS, 16 August 2006

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Alex Narkiewicz, the editor of music community website Playlouder, swiped: “The Black Parade was a concept album about someone dying of cancer. The idea that fans generally regard it as some sort of emo Valahalla is entirely the product of a fertile imagination.”

Emo is no suicide cult, The New Statesman, 3rd June 2008

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From being the sort of girl whdressed in pink and played with Barbie dolls, now Levi will wear only black. Her favourite T-shirt is patterned with skulls, and she spends hours in her room listening to music by My Chemical Romance. “Their lyrics seem to be associated with depression and self-harm, and I feel shock when I listen to them, says her mother Lorraine. Lorraine became so concerned that she telephoned Levi’s father, David, from whom she is separated. "He reminded me that I used to be a rebel, too,” she says. “I was a punk rocker for a while, and he reassured me it was probably just a phase that Levi would grow out of. "But I don’t feel it is like the punk rock movement. That was about a zest for living and seeing life from a different angle. We didn’t harp on miserably about dying.” Efforts to snap Levi out of her emo torpor have so far met with little success. Before Christmas, Lorraine bought her daughter a wardrobe of brightly-coloured designer clothes and jeans, but they have barely been worn. She has banned Levi from dying her hair black, but is worried about clamping down further in case it causes further rebellion.

Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo By TOM RAWSTORNE, The Daily Mail

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Club Krome, NJ - 10.31.03

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She told them she’d inflicted the wounds herself and that it was part of an emo “initiation ceremony”. Only after her death would they discover how she had secretly chatted online to emo followers all over the world, talking about death and of the “black parade” — a place where emos believe they go after they die.

Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo By TOM RAWSTORNE

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three cheers for sweet revenge as eyeshadows

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Why on earth did their daughter — a popular, intelligent and attractive girl — do such a thing? They could find only one clue: Hannah was what is known as an “emo”. Some describe it as a cult or a sect, but in reality the term — derived from the word “emotional” — encapsulates a trend that is becoming hugely popular among Britain’s schoolchildren. A trans-Atlantic import, its followers dress in black, favouring tight jeans, T-shirts, studded belts and sneakers or skater shoes. Hair is all-important: often dyed black and straightened, it is worn in a long fringe brushed to one side of the face. Music also plays a critical roles. Emos like guitar-based rock with emotional lyrics. American bands such as My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte and Blink 182 are particular favourites.

Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo By TOM RAWSTORNE

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