tothetune | V Man Photoshoot

Check out some really cool b-roll footage from Adam Lambert's photo shoot for the "How To - Dress Like a Pop Star" issue of V Man. Shot by Mark Abrahams, this special pop star photo series features five of pop's biggest movers and shakers including tween sensation Justin Bieber, "first out American pop star" Adam Lambert, Gerard and Mikey Way from My Chemical Romance and Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship. The magazine will hit news stands on Thursday. Check out some exclusive photo outtakes right here.

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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
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Gerard Way wrote the first My Chemical Romance song after watching the Twin Towers fall. Twenty-two at the time, and working a dead-end post-art school job, 9/11 was the shock he needed to get his life going. And it has colored his music ever since. "Rock and roll is kind of a death fantasy, but you don't want to die, that's the trick," explains Way. "It's about immortality."

My Chemical Romance has often been criticized for glorifying death, but the band's new album explores less depressing territory. "I really enjoy a movement or band or music or art that is aware, and can poke fun at itself," says Way. Not that he is going to give up the all-black look. "For me, wearing black is just what I've always liked. I went to art school. That's what you do in art school -- wear black and listen to Joy Division."

Way knows he's making music for rebellious teenagers. He doesn't take it too seriously -- but does manage to find hefty emotion in seemingly laughable topics. "For example, on the new record I have this whole thing about black hair dye," he says. "There's something about being 15 or 16 and getting your first bottle. There is a ritual with it. It ends up on your neck, on your collar, in your nails. For most 16-year-olds, the biggest statement they can make is to dye their hair black."

Styling Ilaria Urbinati
Gerard Way (in front) wears: trench "No Bunk! No Junk!" by Band of Outsiders; shirt Thom Browne; jeans Ksubi; boots and ring his own

Mikey Way (behind) wears: jacket 3.1 Phillip Lim; cardigan and t-shirt Marc Jacobs; scarf Topman; jeans Rock & Republic; boots and ring his own

ETA There is a medium-sized non-pixellated picture of just the Ways here.

V Man Photoshoot

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