The Black Parade March On

After suggesting popular emo band My Chemical Romance encouraged suicide in their music, a widely-read British tabloid were fronted with 100 angry-faced teens protesting out the front of their offices last Saturday.

The Daily Mail raised their concerns of the so called “emo cult” after a 13-year-old south London student hanged herself two weeks after she started to listen to its music, including MCR.

Online the publication described the emo style as such: “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 role.”

It was suggested that the girl in question believed she had gone to “the black parade” – a place where emos apparently go after they die.”

But as the kids say, there’s a difference between listening to negative lyrics and carrying out such an act. So to the offices they went, demonstrating and chanting “Don’t blame MCR.”

Then they got all sad, which is fairly standard.