Gerard in Rock Sound

[ofyourdeath.livejournal.com]

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
Interview: Andrew Kelham

Have you thought about how My Chemical Romance will reintroduce themselves to music fans in 2010? Do you ever wonder if your band is still needed in music?
Says Gerard Way (vocals):
"It's funny because the musical landscape is ever changing, but I think there's always a place for us and I think we're absolutely needed, especially now. I don't say that with any arrogance, I just really believe in my band and I believe that our band does what it does better than anybody else. There's no one that can do this like us. I feel a gap when we are gone and I hope people do too, if they don't then we're not doing our job properly. I think we're absolutely needed, but I'm glad we're coming back in 2010 because, as much as people need us, I think they needed a break from us too. I hope we got the balance of that right."

What have you tried to achieve with your forthcoming fourth album? How is it different from you past work?
"With this record we tried to ignore all the cosmetic nonsense and focus on becoming a truly great rock band. We felt that the world needed a really straight and pure rock band, you're hard pressed to find a lot of those these days. It was less about the theatricality and more about how we become the greatest young American rock band musically."

How are you adapting to fatherhood?
"It's great, it's amazing. Obviously we just wanted a healthy baby, but I was excited to have a girl as there are things I can see myself helping a girl with that I could never do with a guy, things like picking out clothes and stealing eyeliner, all that sort of stuff!"

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Comments

[strobelighted.livejournal.com]

No one is tearing Gerard down. Most people have actually expressed delight at this interview. We're just analyzing a phrase he used because it is relevant to a broader subject that interests us and we happen to think is important.

No one is saying what girls or women should or should not be interested in. We're just remarking upon how gender roles and society's expectations of what girls should/should not like are so deeply ingrained and how that comes across in Gerard's somewhat self-contradictory statement.

[tempore.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, because that's my point, too, it is somewhat self-contradictory. And to be fair, I've made an assumption I shouldn't have, partly based in prior experience in other communities where it's a pastime for fans to immediately start tearing everything he says and does apart.