Another day, another journalist seeks to kill a genre of music. Today’s suspect is news.com.au‘s Neala Johnson. The weapon – My Chemical Romance. What got the axe? Emo, of course: NO MORE angst. No more whingeing. No more playing the victim. When My Chemical Romance re-emerge in ea[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mexico’
September 11th, 2009 - 6:58 pm § in Perfect Lines
Emo Nella Italia
Mexico, Russia, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, meet Italy. Anthony Smith of the Roman Forum found another tale of hatred towards emo. Here’s a taste of what Smith has to say: A 14 year-old Roman ‘emo’ boy was hospitalised last week after he and a friend were pounced upon and s[...]
March 16th, 2009 - 7:41 pm § in Perfect Lines
Mexico's Human Rights Issue: Emo
Sure enough, just as the one-year anniversary since the anti-emo riots in Mexico approaches, The AP reports that those who are emo in Mexico may still be in danger of discrimination. Here’s the report: “MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission says that fo[...]
March 3rd, 2009 - 8:50 pm § in Perfect Lines
One Year After Mexico's Anti-Emo Riots…
Last year, Mexico City was the scene of an all-out subculture battle that shook the country to its very soul. Or so the media made it seem. And so the media made it. Period. The very reason I was upset by the illogical and false comments by a “journalist” from the Louisville Parent Exami[...]
January 8th, 2009 - 2:24 am § in Perfect Lines
1st Emo Altercation of 2009
Sure, 2008 had it’s fire and brimstone moments for emo, what with the violent outbursts in Mexico, the “cult suicide” in the U.K., and the proposed ban on the genre in Russia. But in just over a week of 2009, it appears that the name of emo is already being dragged through the mud.[...]
July 3rd, 2008 - 5:24 am § in Perfect Lines
An Introduction
Before things begin, I shall kick things off with the words of someone else. Ted Rall is a witty, no-holds-barred political cartoonist with a wonderful sense of humor. Shamefully, I don’t read his weekly comics as often as I’d like to/should. But, as I flipped through the most recent edi[...]