INTERNATIONAL MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE DAY

Although it may seem like it sometimes, I don't plan out world events just so that I can talk about them - they just happen. Today is one of those days where, as a music blogger, I feel I have no choice but to talk about them, as it is in fact International My Chemical Romance Day; the anniversary of the release of their very first album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. So, to start off with, let's have a look at the song Vampires Will Never Hurt You;

They're so young in this! Gerard's got his short hair, Frank's got his dreads, it's all so new and dark and I love it, everyone loves it. Of course you do. I really like that the whispering on the end of this is repeated at the end of The World Is Ugly off Conventional Weapons 3.

My Chemical Romance (Guest Blog by Lily)

About a year or so ago, I decided to show my 10-year-old sister Lily the album Danger Days by, obviously, My Chemical Romance. She loved it (obviously), and has retained an interest in MCR since then, which I have fanned by showing her bits and pieces of their other stuff - with discretion, because I think she's maybe not quite at the stage where she could appreciate a lot of the meanings behind the stuff in Bullets . . . and also, y'know, would you show You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison to a child? - like the Conventional Weapons releases.

For her birthday, I got her The Black Parade, and I asked her if she'd do a little review of it, seeing as it's not that often that people really talk to kids about music, and it was just something to do. I've edited the grammar a bit, but below is her opinion.

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My Chemical Romance

by Lily, age 10

I like listening to My Chemical Romance because I don't really jump at the idea of listening to tonnes of squeally pop music, nor do I enjoy hearing the ongoing blare of yelling goth music, so when my sister Izzy introduced My Chemical Romance, which is a mix of both genres, I instantly clicked.

Favourite parts:

My favourite song in the album The Black Parade, which my sister gave me for my 10th birthday, is Teenagers because I like the beat. My second and third favourite songs are Dead! and The End.

Rating:

I would recommend this album to anyone who wants to listen to something slightly darker than pop and I would rate it 9/10!

My Terrible Fan Art: My Chemical Romance (edition 2)

As I've said, I have quite a large portfolio of MCR pictures that I've drawn over time, and a lot of them are terrible (but not so much that I won't send them to them when I get the chance, because I have no dignity).
That said, I'm actually pretty pleased with these two. The first one is my version of the dancer girl in the video for Helena (So Long And Goodnight), which is both my favourite song ever and my favourite video ever. The flowers aren't exactly lifelike, but plantlife's never really been my area of expertise.
The second one is Mother War, who is a recurring character within the plot behind The Black Parade. She shows up in the video for Welcome To The Black Parade, and she looks awesome in a really creepy way. I think my picture of her actually turned out really well, really, considering my weird fear of gas masks (stemming possibly from that episode of Doctor Who, which I have not rewatched since I first saw it).