...but in case you haven't, a genuinely hilarious article from The Daily Mail:
EMO cult warning for parents!!
Some choice selections:
- 'There is a also a term which is new to me and amounts to a much more dangerous teenage cult. The Emos - short for Emotional - regard themselves as a cool, young sub-set of the Goths. Although the look is similar, the point of distinction, frightening for schools and parents, is a celebration of self harm.'
- '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)'
- 'How many bedroom walls have been plastered with posters of drippy pre-Raphaelite heroines, or Marc Bolan or Kurt Curbain?'
- 'Many of the alluring women of our time - Nigella Lawson, Debbie Harry, Chrissie Hynde, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Lily Allen - have a touch of the Goth about them.'
edit: The Independent have also got in on the act. What they lack in tabloid panic, they more than make up for in naming Dirty Pretty Things as a key new goth band.
4 comments:
This is priceless. I was going to quote more, but it's all gold!
Not quite as magnificent but still superbly wrong-headed of a senior newspaper was the Times' piece about 'moperock' at V, including those perenially downbeat goths, er, the Young Knives.
That one is good too! It totally reads like they saw Radiohead and Morrissey as headliners, wrote the whole thing and then tried to come up with a more convincingly large list from there.
the times cannot even imagine the hysterical laughter and tears i had to quench to finish reading that `informative item`, priceless. but they should be ashamed they employ this person who obviously cant do research to save her life!!
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