"This Is Not a Fashion Statement, Its a Deathwish..." - Emo, is it a way of life or just a scene?

What do you think of when someone says the word “emo”? A teeny popper wearing Converse and too much eyeliner?

This seems to be the way emo and emo kids all over the world seem to be perceived now, but it wasn’t always that way.

Once upon a time in a land of glitter and rainbows, emo, short for emotional was all about the music, about what the artists such as My Chemical Romance, were trying to say. Strongly anti-suicide, these bands would deliver strong messages to their fans. Often fans have told bands such as these that their music saved their life…

So what happened? How did it suddenly become that this pro-life genre suddenly became razor wielding?

Suddenly emo became popular. Before, emo kids were the outcasts, deemed as depressed by their peers, they were avoided like the plague. But then emo bands such as Fall Out Boy hit the mainstream and suddenly the world and its wife, even your granny are singing along and painting their nails black.

This fad hasn’t fazed out either, so it seems that emo as it was, is dead and buried, paving the way for the scene kid take over…