#i fucking love this band

[party-lemon]

I've been wanting to make this post for a while and, in light of the absolute epic outfits at their first WWWY show, I thought this would be the perfect time:

My Chemical Romance is not the same.

When people think of MCR, they think of eyeliner and blood and vampires and red and black and doom and gloom. And, don't get me wrong, a number of Gerard's outfits show that we still get some of that:

But, nowadays, we also get:

And I'm not just talking about dresses. I'm not just talking about Gerard finally feeling comfortable to wear whatever he wants, because that could be from numerous other factors.

No, I'm also talking about:

They're having fun.

This band had been nonstop since 2003. They went from Bullets to Revenge to Black Parade to Danger Days without much of a break because they were great and they were expected to do something because that's what great bands do; they keep creating things, they churn stuff out for their fans and their industry, they bleed themselves dry for other people because that's their job.

My Chemical Romance thought they were done after The Black Parade. And then they kept going, only because they were desperately trying to rewrite themselves. To rid themselves of those crushing expectations to do something else great. But, no matter what they did, MCR couldn't escape them.

We don't really know the full story behind why they ended things. MCR is notorious for being rather cryptic. But I get the feeling that those expectations were too much. No matter how much they just tried to be themselves, to create things for themselves, to have fun, they couldn't. And constantly doing things for other people starts weighing very heavily. Expectations and threats are only separated by a fine line. And they were tired.

Did they always expect to return...who knows? Certainly not us. Like I said, MCR has always been cryptic. But I do know that they didn't come back the same as before.

My Chemical Romance came back and gave a big "fuck you" to expectations. I mean, The Foundations of Decay gives it all away. They've been playing a vast array of songs, some of which we've barely heard or they haven't played in years. Sister to Sleep, Fake Your Death, Mastas of Ravenkroft, Heaven Help Us, Bury Me in Black, Desert Song, Demolition Lovers. There's clips of Frank, Ray, and Mikey all playing in front of their kids. Frank and Gerard's piss and vinegar shirts, Ray wearing a Mikey Fuckin Way t-shirt, everyone hugging and laughing with each other, Frank literally saying he's having so much fun that he wants to keep playing, Gerard coming out in the most insane outfits, all of them just constantly smiling like a bunch of wonderstruck children.

So, no. MCR isn't the same. But they're having fun. And they're ridding themselves of what My Chemical Romance once was. There's bits and pieces still left that they'll still use but, for the most part, they're tearing down what once was and building something new. For all they knew, this could have all gone down in flames but they don't care because they're who they want to be. And they're giving the middle finger to expectations and to anyone who dares to say that MCR isn't good enough or was better before.

Nostalgia is no good when it blinds you to the better things in the present.

#i fucking love this band #mcr #my chemical romance #gerard way #frank iero #ray toro #mikey way #wwwy fest #mcr wwwy #wwwy #mike hemical rome ants #mcr tour #long posts #lemon media

[gl1tched-g0th]

I love TCW's fanbase because we're all just silly neurodivergent people who are INSANELY un-normal about the food given to us in the form of a new album or single

#I quite literally got heart palpitations the first time I listened to Scars bc of how good it is #AND ITS NOT EVEN OUT YET #I fucking love this band #TCW and Aurora are carrying me in terms of fixating on music artists rn #TCW #the crane wives #nessie's nonsense

[cat09tailsonline]

The mind will never stop replaying the past, the constant background static that perpetuates painfully all that I lack. "true salvation is a state of freedom from fear, from a perceived state of lack, insufficiency; therefore from all wanting needing, grasping and clinging" You see time as a the means to salvation whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation.

#screamo #lord snow #i fucking love this band #Bandcamp #julia's mind radio

[inahailofbulletz]

i would like to thank I Hate Sex for telling a story with their songs on the album Circle Thinking. It has changed my life in the last 2 months and It's changing my life as we speak and it will for the next 5-10 months.

#skramz #screamo #emo #emoviolence #emotional hardcore #i fucking love this band #ihs #mother #Spotify

[scarlet-and-ultraviolet]

ITS FINALLY TIME (in the uk). SEE YOU ALL ON THE OTHER SIDE.

#BACK TO EDEN BABYYYY #who even knows if i'll survive this #tissues at the ready #crying is inevitable #i fucking love this band

[moshpitsnax]

#are u KIDDING ME #listening to this doesn’t feel real #I have so much to say on this album #ITS SO GOOD #fall out boy #I fucking love this band #music #audio #I will never shut up about this #Spotify

[veradune]

Typhoon at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver, Artificial Light was their encore (I'm still freaking out about this show that I drove 2000 kilometers for)

#i fucking love this band #typhoon #typhoon music #kyle morton #artificial light #i held the front like a keener for most of the show but deliberately moved back so as not to be too distracting when filming (hopefully) #you know a show is a bit intimate when you're worried the entire band can see you #also lmao the audience is fairly off key but we have spirit #queue #personal

[p3pto-bysmal]

NEW PIERCE THE VEIL ALBUM... LETS HOPE ITS GOOD....

#pierce the veil #I FUCKING LOVE THIS BAND #PTV JAWS OF LIFE

[spectralarchers]

i'll never get over the emotional whiplash between listening to 'everywhere i go' by hollywood undead and 'outside' by the same band and i am absolutely 100% convinced that this specific whiplash is why the band's songs still resonate with me now almost 15 years since they released swan songs

there's a paper to be written on the fact that their lyrics, in spite of seeming overtly sexist and misogynistic to the average listener ('everywhere i go, bitches always know, that charlie scene has got a weenie that he loves to show'), the actual lyrics encompass the divide between what we think they're saying and what they're actually saying (the entire setup of 'everywhere i go' is of a guy who is on a self destructive path with alcohol, drugs and a half broken lifestyle who doesn't care about anything)

and the specific writing of the song pushes the song in another direction, and colors it in a gray veil that makes the apparently obvious misogyny and sexism feel more like a desperate comment on how men in the narrator's situation are more fucked up than anything because all throughout the song we're reminded constantly about the fact that booze and sex is the absolute only thing that the narrator can think of and that is an unhealthy lifestyle, that which the song itself is commenting on

(and, to be fair, what most of hollywood undead's songs do!)

#Shut up Christine #I fucking love this band

[woundedheartwithin]

This life of stone

The hand of god I'm too tempted to bribe

I'm getting old and growing paralyzed

We're all alone

Until we let our minds take to the skies

Our blood runs cold yet we remain alive

#tunes #tesseract #progressive metal #I fucking love this band #and they did a stint in Scandinavia with fucking Lorna Shore In Flames and Orbit Culture and I’m upset about it #in the most beautiful venue I’ve ever seen #LS’s drummer shared pics of it and omfg #Spotify

[elegantdemoness]

Watch Excuse Me on YouTube Music

#Fire From the Gods lyrics #fucking amazing band #definitely worth listening to #their lyrics are inspiring #it is incredible the mix of hip hop and metal #I fucking love this band #i have made multiple Word Drawings with their lyrics #Youtube

[crmsndragonwngss]

I remember vividly

All of the ways life bloomed

Into tragedy

Spiraling cycles of cynical thoughts

I have never known the real me

They say

You should just give up

Admit enough is enough

You'll never be what you've dreamed of

Get by, put it away inside

I can tell stories through my eyes

#tunes #reflections #progressive metalcore #deathcore #brand new just posted 2 hours ago! #I fucking love this band #Spotify

[sk8rambler]

guys.

#GUYSSS #PLEASEEEE #i fucking love this band #even if it isnt sharrock era #LETS TALK ABT HOW GORGEOUS EVERYONE LOOKS #cough cough john and neil #I NEED THIS PIC NOT JUST IN A MAGAZINE #the la's #lee mavers #john power #cammy cammell #neil mavers #90s jangle pop #merseybeat #90s music #90s

[small-spiderpunkboy]

#I fucking love this band #I got to see them live last night and they fucking killed it #the linda lindas #Spotify

[ashole-x]

The scream before Jake just comes in wailing.

It’s like Josh was calling for him.

#I fucking love this band #I love music #gvf

[sylladextrous]

went to a show and kissed some girls ama

#god. fuck. i need another show like that soon. that was so good #incredible bands. pretty tgirls. lovely friends #need more of that in my life #trans #transgender #gpoy #chloe.img