Lots of My Chemical Romance’s fans even considered them to be emo. WTF? MCR is not emo, guys. Come on. They’re DEATH METAL…they once said that. And I recently heard Kerrang radio’s interview with MCR on the net and they explained it! I’m really excited to hear it. Here I wrote it all down for you guys to read…please read, okay? I played this for like 20 times and heard Gerard’s voice sooo many times, just to put it in here. Hey this is rare, you know? It’s very recent, 6th Nov 2006… Okay here goes:
DJ:Your fans are really, really hardcore. Who try to distinguish you as emo.
Gerard: Right.
DJ: And to get into the emo area is a whole, you know, pandora’s box. You don’t wanna open that box because you don’t need that shit in your life, you know what I mean?
Gerard: Yeah, it’s uh, it’s like, the funny thing about the emo tag is that we actually never get the benefit of being an emo band in the beginning because we weren’t. We didn’t fit in with that, so we didn’t get booked on shows, we didn’t get tours…umm nobody would like listening to our record to play, I mean there was one kid, Maria who played our record, and uh, nobody interested in us because we were…different. Um at least promoters and stuff. There were kids interested in us. So then years later to be lumped in with something you actually actively faught against, or tried not to be a part of, is ironic. You know?
DJ: Coz, Okay, there’s essentially an emo anthem you know, everything’s really bad in the world, you know what I mean?
Frank: I guess more of a personal anthem. I don’t know if not being perfectly fine is just a theme in one demografic of kids who listen to one type of music. I mean everybody in this world is not okay sometimes.
Gerard: To me that song is a declaration of saying, you know, we’re not gonna put something out there to a mass amount of people that simply saying that something is totally awesome, because, like, we’ve met so many kids along the way, we know it’s not awesome. We know there’s kids getting depressed, we know how they feel in highschool. We know what they’re going through. And they’re not even just, uh they’re teenagers and there’s actually people in their 20’s jobless and stuff like that. That’s just exactly more of what we’re seeing.
Frank: That’s what we were.
Gerard: Yeah, that’s what we were. Without jobs.
Hm that’s only a part of the interview. It’s kinda long…maybe if my exam’s over, I’ll post the full version of it. Hope that clear things up a little.
xoxo nashie