‘Emo’ music is far from a black suicide cult

May 21 2008 by Sophie Brown

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

Recently, a coroner linked the death of Hannah Bond in Kent with her liking for Emo music.

But, in my view, that’s an easy scapegoat. People make their own choices and would not simply do something of that magnitude because a song told them to.

And at the turn of the Millennium, Emo began making its way to the UK. It picked up fans slowly until two bands changed everything – My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy.

Emo music is about expressing yourself in many ways and standing up for your beliefs and choices. It is not about cutting yourself to pieces. The media did a lot of harm by saying that.