Los Angeles TV Station Provides Exhaustive Emo-Vestigation

It’s not easy being a regional TV-news reporter. You wake up every day in a panic, wondering where your next assignment will take you: Will it be a 60th-anniversary high-school reunion? A scuba-diving school for the deaf? The Russian cat circus?! And then, just when you think there are no hard-hitting stories left, a concerned parent pulls you aside at a community-board meeting and whispers one word to you: “Emo“:

FOX 11 Investigates: The ‘Emo’ Scene

Los Angeles — The ’emo’ scene has its roots in the punk rock and goth subcultures. You’ve seen the kids; you just didn’t know they had a name. As Leelila Strogov explains, the scene has been re-shaping kid culture for some time.

While this “undercover investigation” isn’t as hilariously over-panicky as the last local-news emo report, it’s just as absurd. Among the highlights:

– Emo got big after it was “[spread] on the Internet”! – There’s a “goth vs. emo” war a-brewin’! – When your parents are deported, you become emo! – This is all Robert Smith’s fault!

Actually, the last one may not be too far off.

EMO Makes The News [YouTube] FOX 11 Investigates: The ‘Emo’ Scene [MyFoxLa.com]