Of course, the end product pulled this off spectacularly, and showed the world just how ambitious this emo-punk act from Newark truly were. Arguably the birth of MCR as the conceptual minds that fans now know them as today. My Chemical Romance videos have consistently impressive choreography, with Teenagers being a prime example. The video showcased an unexpected and somewhat unsettling dance done by cheerleaders in gas masks as My Chemical Romance perform in a high school gymnasium to a group of fans, all before the whole thing descends into chaos.
For the first two Danger Days videos, My Chemical Romance kicked off a storyline that expanded from one song to the next; SING was the second part, presenting the dramatic end to the plot started in the Na Na Na video. Action-packed and futuristic, this video has all of the makings of a good science-fiction movie: blasters, bright lights and a heroic-yet-tragic fight scene to end it all. The Ghost Of You is less a music video and more the shortest war epic ever made.
And like any great war movie, it comes with its fair share of tragedy and drama: half of the video takes place during full-bore battle sequences on the beach, while the other half features My Chem in period uniforms performing for soldiers who are saying goodbye to their sweethearts before heading to the frontlines.
The most breathtaking scene is of course when the dance floor dissolves into the battlefield. For that alone, this video deserves an Oscar. The first of the Danger Days two-parter, the video for Na Na Na is what many action movies can only aspire to be, seamlessly introducing viewers to both the Killjoys and the colorful, explosive world of Danger Days. Genuinely impossible to improve.
But this is no ordinary funeral, featuring full-blown dance sequences — including one from the deceased. But not only is Helena a treat for the eyes, but it also showed how visually powerful My Chemical Romance were ready to be, and took the band to new artistic heights. I think it was the last one we tracked -- it was kind of a final-hour tracking but we did a heavy amount of work on it to get it to live on "Danger Days. So that's why I talked about laser beams and running from cops.
It has those themes in there, and it was the first song from the first session that had those themes. We had recorded "SING" fourth and that's when we realized we were re-tracking the album. What I love about it is that it's the band finally writing music free of genre or anything else -- writing music solely as fans of music and with a very broad, direct, world view.
It started with a beat. The song just took this beat and that's how we started writing it. We kind of mediated on that beat for days. The song ended up really important, really early for us so it was pretty great. That's when we realized, 'Alright, we're doing something special here. We're finally on to something. Let's finish this album. It's featured on the new "Gran Turismo" game, as the game's opening song, and it fits -- there's so much energy there. Again, this was the hardest -- we knew we loved this song.
We knew it was an amazing song, so how are we going to get this into "Danger Days" world which, at this point, had become very electronic retro thrash rock album, and this needed to live on there. This went through a lot of incarnations, a lot of exploration, a lot of programming, and we settled on this version that was kind of split up the middle.
It had programming, it had these big sweeping "Blade Runner" keyboards in the beginning, but then ultimately it's a rock song and we kept that about it. That's what helped it live on "Danger Days. But again, you're hearing this kind of science-fiction desert at the beginning of it. It's living very much in the world.
Again, lyrics are very direct. That's the thing, the whole record has lyrics that are very direct. It was, again, the band doing songs for the sake of making great music. We really wanted to explore the psychedelic nature of this album. The album follows the stories of the four members' alter egos, the "Fabulous Killjoys. The album was released on November 19th, and topped U. Billboard Charts for rock and alternative rock albums, while peaking on the U.
Billboard and UK Album Charts at eight and fourteen respectively. The album's concept is based around the lives of the "Fabulous Killjoys" in the setting of California in the year Their character aliases are the names of their "designer" guns. While they do end up saving her in the end, the four Killjoys are killed in the process, and the girl is taken in by Dr.
Death Defying and their other allies. A website for Better Living Industries was launched in November , featuring a mission statement, a report from the Zones and a merchandise store. Gerard Way has said the inspiration for the song was a Trans-Am car he'd seen years ago and the visual idea of it driving fast through a desert: this car is the one used in the music videos.
Way has also stated that "there is no story" in the album itself, with Dr. Death Defying's interludes via his pirate radio station "painting a picture of this world," and he feels the songs are quite "direct.
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