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Article: COLUMN: Cheer up, emo kid, life isn't that bad
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- April 18, 2005
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Joel Klein
University Wire
04-18-2005
(OSU Daily Barometer) (U-WIRE) CORVALLIS, Ore. -- According to the Urban Dictionary, the music/lifestyle known as emo is "like Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter." This assessment gets at the essence of true emo culture -- angst-filled suburbanite teenagers, tight pants, scarves in the summer, power chords, even tighter pants and a hefty dose of ostentatious self-pity and self-defeating consumerism.
Of course, no one knows exactly what emo refers to. Some stake claim to emo as "emotional hardcore" or "emo-core," a genus of music that evolved from punk and began in Washington, D.C., with the band Rites of Spring. Others allege that ...
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Article: 'Emo' music fan hangs himself after Bebo bullying
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June 12, 2008 ;
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...Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, June 12 -- A 13-year-old British boy committed suicide after being bullied over his love for Emo rock bands on social networking website, Bebo. Sam Leeson became a victim of constant torture via cruel messages that
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