Herzeleid wrote:It is something that Lorraine Harrison is all too aware of. She has three daughters, the youngest of whom is 11-year-old Levi, a girl who classes herself as emo.

Recently, Levi asked her mother: "Just why do people kill themselves?"

"When she asked me that, it made me shudder," says Lorraine, 46, from Alston in Cumbria. "I managed to keep calm and explained to her that people's minds are very disturbed, and often they don't really want to die. But inside I felt sick with worry that Levi is thinking about such things."

From being the sort of girl who dressed in pink and played with Barbie dolls, now Levi will wear only black.

Her favourite T-shirt is patterned with skulls, and she spends hours in her room listening to music by My Chemical Romance.

"Their lyrics seem to be associated with depression and self-harm, and I feel shock when I listen to them," says her mother.

"Levi seems to have gone from being a lively girl who enjoyed having friends around, to someone who has become quite introverted."

This explains a lot, Lev.

Bangover wrote::lol: The Daily Mail has reached a new low

jonny_boy34 wrote:
But yeah, this is indeed a shame, and it's an even bigger shame that her death is being used to demonise another genre of music that, whilst very shit, causes no harm to anyone, and is certainly not the 'cult' this article claims it to be. It's much easier to blame someone/something else when you secretly realise you have to look closer to home for the truth.

metaldazza wrote:
The Daily Mail only exists to give middle class parents excuses for their own failings. As harsh as it sounds that girl's parents failed. The problem isn't that she became an emo but that she wasn't equipped with any fucking perspective by her parents.

Dian Wei wrote:This just adds another word to the Daily Mail game as i see it.

Emo Pikeys Stab Pregnant Teenage Transvestite!