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Parents Launch Website Protesting Against 'Suicidal' Emo Music

My Chemical Romance are targetted by parents...

Gigwise has been informed about a website set up by parents who are worried about what they perceive as the 'glorification of self-injury and suicide' in emo music.

The in-depth website provides a guide as to why they believe emo inspires self injury and suicide, it also provides 'tragic examples', hard-hitting pictures, the dangers and what parents can do to protect their children.

They also outline bands and songs – most notably those of My Chemical Romance – which they believe spout dangerous messages to young people. You can see the site here

We were alerted to it by a commenter on a previous story, who wrote: “My daughter tried to kill herself. At first, she was a happy child, then she became emo. She said it was 'emotional.' She began cutting. She hid it at first, but we found out after she tried suicide.”

The comments come at a highly contentious time in the wake of the suicide of 13 year old Hannah Bond from Kent.

A coroner said that the type of music she listened to was “very disturbing”, while certain sections of the press published articles strongly condemning the genre of music she was listening to.

This inspired emo fans to protest outside The Daily Mail's London offices over their treatment of the story.

My Chemical Romance also reacted by saying that they are categorically anti-violence and anti-suicide, denying that they ever promote it. They also sent out their condolences to Hannah Bond's family.

However, this will have done nothing to appease the Parents Against Emo lobby, who write on their site:”When you see a group of people talking about pain, nothingness, self injury and suicide, should we then be surprised when we see them doing what they are talking about?  Their music, poetry, and dress are all telling us something.  When are we going to pay attention to what they are telling us?”
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  • ”Parents” looking for someone else to blame, why don’t they look in the mirror? That song lyrics section is bizarre, have these people not heard of metaphors and allusion?

    ~ by Noods 6/6/2008

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  • What a load of shit. Personally I don’t like MCR’s music but they don’t deserve to be blamed for teenagers killing themselves. Are Radiohead going to be blamed for glorifying suicide next? ”No Surprises” contains the lyrics ”I’ll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide”. And I’m going to see them in Malahide tomorrow, hope the gig doesn’t result in a mass suicide, fucking tossers.

    ~ by AngryMaq 6/6/2008

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  • jesus christ almighty. i just love these parents who, instead of taking responsibility for their actions, choose instead to blame the dangerous music they listen to. i’’m an MCR fan and i hardly feel suicidal. their music cheers me up in fact. this website is a load of shit and these parents are pathetic.

    ~ by grace 6/6/2008

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  • LISTEN to your kids - find out what they are into - stop trying to control everything - and if you think your kid is going to off themselve over music lyrics... you need help too.

    ~ by Andy from Edmonton 6/7/2008

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  • It DOES happen. Lots of kids are stupid (some are proud to label themselves as metalheads, "clubbers", "emos", and so on) and some ARE going to do whatever they THINK the band is telling them to do, even if the bands are NOT telling them to do anything (which they’’re not). Yes, a lot of people think it’’s cool to cut themselves, they’’re weak minded kids. Some aren’’t even depres

    ~ by a.leni 6/7/2008

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