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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

It seems that freakytigger isn't the only one getting in a tizzy as to what all this emo nonsense is about. Popjustice newsletter points us here:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1219880.ece

And here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400953&in_page_id=1770

Unsurprisingly the Mail has the "better" moral panic headline...

edit for our overseas viewers, the young lady in the picture on the mail story is a character in Coronation Street, the UK's longest running soap opera, who went goth about 9 months ago, having been sent to a posh school by her pushy mother. she is totally not emo.

Comments

whither rod hull

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

l!z h0ggard writes for crufts! she wz at my book launch!! TAKIN NOTES ON ALL THE EMOS

All Journalists Are Political Prisoners

[koganbot]

Wait, Mark, you actually know someone who writes these things? Tell me more. My suspicion is that the "mistakes" in such articles are put there deliberately so that the discerning reader will recognize that the piece was written under duress and shouldn't be taken at face value. "The androgynous nature of the Goths is appealing to the young because it is sexually unthreatening." This is reminiscent of how the defendants in Soviet state trials of the '50s would insert patently absurd events in their confessions so that readers would know that the whole thing was a sham elicited by torture.