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

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I have the best mental picture of Gerard sitting at a little tea set up with a bunch of dolls and a really delicate tea set and he's got his hair and makeup all done... and Bandit walks in with dirty knees and chopped short hair and no makeup and is like "Daaaaaaaaad. DDDDDDD:"

But that's okay, he just calls Frank and has him bring his kids over, those boys totally love Gerard's tea parties. *___*

[nightlilac.livejournal.com]

*cough* @gerardway (http://twitter.com/gerardway/status/3321743024) "I think shes going to be a lady wrestler...almost positive of it"

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Hahaha yeah! I forgot he said that! :D

[lovesongwriter.livejournal.com]

Or she takes after Uncle Mikey and never has facial expressions and the only person she texts is him.

Then they sit there together going :| :| and it's AWESOME.

And then Pete Wentz comes over. And it's awkward.

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Yes! They attempt to out :| each other, but it always ends in a draw.

Pete Wentz makes everything awkward. That's his gift.

[lovesongwriter.livejournal.com]

She learned so well :| He'd cry if he had tear ducts in his robot body :|

Pete tries to get her to call him Uncle Pete. She tells him no.

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't so attached to my journal name, I'd change it to "Mikeyway's robot body has no tear ducts :|" right now.

Gerard is secretly pleased by this.