Article: Emo music's not to blame for suicides; Ode to emo: Sophie Brown praises the music genre for its positive lyrics.

Article: COLUMN: Cheer up, emo kid, life isn't that bad
University Wire;  April 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......having slap-fights over who has the "real" emo music while their depressed girlfriends observe...I've been listening to some way dope emo music. *sigh* I wish I was dead." You: "Don...there a relationship between supposed emo music and depression? Perhaps, but it would...

Article: COLUMN: Leggo my emo; don't label fans unfairly
University Wire;  May 14, 2007 ;     572 words ......COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Generally I dislike emo music for the same reason many others do: Stuff...might not be fair to judge mainstream emo music for being fake punk, fake hard-core or...hard for everyone to even agree on what emo music is. One person's emo is another's punk-ro...

Article: 'Emo' music is far from a black suicide cult; After an inquest into the suicide of a 13-year-old girl earlier this month linked the Emo genre of music and fashion to the glamorisation of death among young people, Sophie Brown, 14, from Llandybie, writes from a teenage perspective the wednesday essay.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 21, 2008 ;     648 words ......Hannah Bond in Kent with her liking for Emo music. But, in my view, that's an easy scapegoat...colours and complicated, heartfelt lyrics. Emo music is about expressing yourself in many...To me that would feel like giving in. Emo music makes people see that life is not a fairytale...

Article: COMMENTARY: Evaluating the similarities, differences of emo & metal
University Wire;  June 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Recent accusations put punk-derived emo music in the crosshairs of ill-favored comparisons...between the current media darlings of emo music and the late 80s success of bands like...Evaluated this way, of course hair metal and emo music are meaningless. No one knows what the...

Article: WIPO: Inventor in Japan Develops Music Genre Discrimination Apparatus
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 10, 2008 ;     197 words ......both of Saitama, Japan, have developed a music genre discrimination program. According to an...Organization, the invention relates to "music genre discrimination device, a music genre discrimination method, and a music genre...

Article: Burning Questions: Should Parents Worry About Emo Music?
The Scotsman;  November 4, 2006 ;     330 words ......Daily Mail article which appeared back in August, describing Emo music as a "dangerous teenage cult", claiming that many parents and...rise in self-harm among teenagers, and expressing concern that Emo music seems to celebrate that self-harm? Yes, that's the one. "Shrill...

Article: Russia wants to ban hardcore rock styles, emo and goth
The Hindustan Times;  July 26, 2008 ;     166 words ......dangerous teen trend" which encourage depression and suicide. Emo music, characterised by high emotional content and alternation between...gained mainstream popularity in recent years. Critics slam emo music as being negative culture and encouraging anti-social behaviour...

Article: Artist of Week: Seven Mile Drive
St. Joseph News-Press;  March 7, 2003 ;     481 words ......have a lot more to offer than those other bands. Our music's based on emotion, which is what emo music is. But to me, it's not as whiny as emo music. Hopefully, we can offer people a little more to think about than having their girlfriend breaking...

Article: Is there an emo in the house?
New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  June 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......anywhere near that punk rock section, where I would find enough emo music to make me drown in the darkest depths of my tortured heart...But if they don't exist, I wonder who listens to all this emo music? I have scoured the folk and foreign sections, which are considerably...

Article: Kids in the Hall ; Seminal emo act The Get Up Kids give it another go
St. Joseph News-Press;  March 6, 2009 ;     522 words ...The Get Up Kids are one of the principal innovators of emo music, and they did it without a single strand of flat-ironed hair or a hint of guyliner. The fact that emo music has turned into more of a fashion style than a genre isn't lost on the band...

Article: :: SUICIDE Newspaper under siege as fans of emo music protest at 'suicide cult' coverage of teenager's death
The Independent on Sunday;  June 1, 2008 ;     153 words ......after becoming infatuated with the band My Chemical Romance. Her inquest heard that she had taken part in an internet forum on emo music. Fans who protested at Marble Archand outside the 'Daily Mail' offices in Kensington, central London, said the band was not...

Article: COMMENTARY: Defining rocker style
University Wire;  January 26, 2006 ;     683 words ......tight jeans, a black shirt and has bangs over his eyes is an emo music fan. Some may even go as far as saying that all bands look...closest definition Perez came up with in trying to describe emo music is that it is "whiny, drama, self-absorbed, and reaching for...

Article: EMO GIRL HANGED.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  June 19, 2008 ;     54 words ......GIRL of 12 hanged herself after visiting websites where youngsters talk of suicide and self-harm, an inquest heard yesterday. Emo music fan Rachel Jarvis was found hanging in her bedroom in Hull, the city's coroner was told. In a narrative verdict, Geoffrey Saul...

Article: Sam leeson's mum writes a letter to parents
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  July 15, 2008 ;     75 words ......to have hanged himself after becoming the victim of online and verbal bullying about his alternative dress sense and love of Emo music. Now his brave mum, Sally Cope, has written an open letter to the bullies and their families in a bid to stop other youngsters...