Some of you who keep up on “the scene” probably have noticed the hubbub in the last couple weeks around My Chemical Romance supposedly causing suicides. For those of you who don’t dabble in such things, the short version goes: a British girl commits suicide, her parents and the media blame emo music/My Chem (a British daily even went so far as to publish an article entitled “Why No Child Is Safe From The Sinister Cult Of Emo”), and British My Chemical Romance fans staged a protest in London.

Now, NME online is not always the most reliable source (anyone remember their part in the clandestineplot?), but I thought this was interesting, plus I’m a Blink-182 superfan, so I like reading anything having to do with them. I agree with what Tom says, and I was suprised to read that they had been involved with a scandal like this as well around the Columbine shootings. I had no idea; it’s pretty crazy.

Anyway: check out the article. Obviously I feel bad for the family of the deceased girl, and wish that her memory could be left in peace; however, probably attacking a musical genre was not the way to go, and the media shouldn’t have blown it up into such a big thing.