Baby One Emo Time
If emo really was all about self-harming, living your entire life in a hell of over-emotional inner-shrieking and listening to far too much music, like the Daily Mail says, the most popular emo icon wouldn't be Gerard Way or one of the skinnier ones in Panic! At The Disco at all. It'd be Britney Spears.
OK, OK, calm down, you're going to HURT yourself...it's a joke, but IS IT REALLY??
Who else but someone addicted to making things much harder for herself than she needs to would divorce her good-for-nothing party-addict husband for failing to BE THERE for her and their two children, and then, just as a legal battle begins for the custody of the two mini-Spearses (seriously, they look like sharpened chopsticks), embark on the kind of super-wild lifestyle that would make K-Fed think about getting an early night.
Since the news of her divorce hit the headlines, Britney has been spotted in a variety of public places, clearly enjoying herself more than she has in years (OK, that's points against in emo terms), but really not going for that 'perfect mother' image that might play in her favour.
So far, while out on the town she has been spotted:
Ok, so most of those examples are hardly damning, but, c'mon...Paris Hilton? That's taking self-harm to a whole new level, lady. Ever think of getting a jaggedy Beatle-cut and some flouro-highlights? It could work...