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Short article about Danger Days and new material
How to follow The Black Parade
Neala Johnson | March 21, 2012 6:30pm
DESPITE My Chemical Romance's fourth album falling flat in comparison to their hit album The Black Parade, the band have vowed that they'll only come back stronger.
1. BLACK PARADE CONQUERED THE WORLD
... But My Chemical Romance's follow-up album Danger Days fell sharply off the priority list. "I don't think anybody made a misstep," the US group's frontman Gerard Way says. "Not only did whatever happened positively or negatively sales-wise not affect the band, it didn't affect the world's perception of the band as artists."
2. THE GREAT SHAME IN ALL OF THAT?
Danger Days housed several shoulda-been hits that would have been huge were a different band's name on the cover. "If it had just been some random indie pop act that put out Sing, it would have been a massive tune," Gerard says. "We have an awesome bubble; sometimes that bubble is a barrier to getting things out there."
3. TIME TO DREAM IT ALL UP AGAIN
After spending summer on the Big Day Out, My Chem headed home to start album No.5 in their new studio. Bassist Mikey Way says he doesn't know what it will sound like, but it will wrong-foot unbelievers again. "People had formulated ideas about our band just based on seeing a kid in one of our T-shirts - and they were wrong."
4. THE LAST BAND ON EARTH
Sales rise and fall, but My Chemical Romance are survivors, says Gerard: "It's like building a better cockroach. There is s--- that's way bigger than us right now that's gonna be gone in two years and we're gonna be in the studio making an album. That's f---in' awesome."
HEAR Danger Days (Warner) out now
Neala Johnson | March 21, 2012 6:30pm
DESPITE My Chemical Romance's fourth album falling flat in comparison to their hit album The Black Parade, the band have vowed that they'll only come back stronger.
1. BLACK PARADE CONQUERED THE WORLD
... But My Chemical Romance's follow-up album Danger Days fell sharply off the priority list. "I don't think anybody made a misstep," the US group's frontman Gerard Way says. "Not only did whatever happened positively or negatively sales-wise not affect the band, it didn't affect the world's perception of the band as artists."
2. THE GREAT SHAME IN ALL OF THAT?
Danger Days housed several shoulda-been hits that would have been huge were a different band's name on the cover. "If it had just been some random indie pop act that put out Sing, it would have been a massive tune," Gerard says. "We have an awesome bubble; sometimes that bubble is a barrier to getting things out there."
3. TIME TO DREAM IT ALL UP AGAIN
After spending summer on the Big Day Out, My Chem headed home to start album No.5 in their new studio. Bassist Mikey Way says he doesn't know what it will sound like, but it will wrong-foot unbelievers again. "People had formulated ideas about our band just based on seeing a kid in one of our T-shirts - and they were wrong."
4. THE LAST BAND ON EARTH
Sales rise and fall, but My Chemical Romance are survivors, says Gerard: "It's like building a better cockroach. There is s--- that's way bigger than us right now that's gonna be gone in two years and we're gonna be in the studio making an album. That's f---in' awesome."
HEAR Danger Days (Warner) out now
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Regardless, it's a great album. I've yet to get tired of listening to it nearly a year and a half later. ^_^
In the end, I'm all for the band living in their awesome bubble. It's pretty obvious that they had fun while touring for DD, that they solidified/renewed their vows as a band and that most of their fans were as enthusiastic as the band was about both new and old material being played live.
♥MCR♥
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Less fangirly, slightly: Danger Days WAS my introduction to MCR, and I may never tire of it. (I literally spent hours listening to it on repeat while fussing with tangled yarn. THIS IS DEVOTION OKAY.) I also love Black Parade, though, so basically I say don't juuuuuudge by the albums come beforehand on the production cycle.
I can't wait to see what awesomeness they make next! :D
(Less fangirly? BAHAHAHAA I am gone on them, anyone can see that.)