{"id":117,"date":"2010-12-07T05:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/this-is-how-the-story-ends-my-chemical-romance\/"},"modified":"2010-12-07T05:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:34:33","slug":"this-is-how-the-story-ends-my-chemical-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/this-is-how-the-story-ends-my-chemical-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is How The Story Ends.: My Chemical Romance and the Death of Emo – MSN Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Is How The Story Ends.: My Chemical Romance and the Death of Emo – MSN Interview<\/a><\/p>\n

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The article began its incendiary report rather matter-of-factly: \u201cA girl of 13 killed herself after becoming obsessed with a fashion which links death with glamour, an inquest heard. Hannah Bond hanged herself from her bunk bed with a tie after becoming an \u2018Emo.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The date was May 9, 2008 and the British paper the \u201cDaily Mail\u201d was reporting on the sudden suicide of a teenage girl after her parents wouldn\u2019t let her sleep over at a friend\u2019s house. Though her musical tastes were certainly put into question by the coroner, with its next sentence the paper would set off a firestorm of controversy and anger whose ripples can still be felt today: \u201cEmo fans wear dark clothes,\u201d it read. \u201cPractise self-harm and listen to \u2018suicide cult\u2019 rock bands.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there it was, an assumption by a journalist aiming to drum up publicity with little to no proof. The article went on to name only one band in its attack on \u2018Emo.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the foremost of these \u201csuicide cult\u201d bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey,\u201d the last paragraph begins before describing the success the band\u2019s concept album, \u2018The Black Parade,\u2019 had attained in the UK. It concludes with a final, ignorant interpretation of the concept: \u201cThe Black Parade is a nickname for the place where Emo fans believe they will go when they die.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that the members of My Chemical Romance \u2014 a band at the height of their fame whose message, especially on that album, their biggest commercial success to date, was of positivity in the face of death \u2014 affectively became the target for thousands of frustrated mothers looking for someone or something to blame. The fallout was epic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen,\u201d lead singer Gerard Way recently told Spin Magazine. \u201cBut all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned the world doesn\u2019t want to be saved, and it will f\u2014cking punch you in the face if you try.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was with this mentality \u2014 emotionally broken, artistically strained \u2014 and at the height of their popularity, that the band began getting work on a follow up. With its lead singer and songwriter\u2019s guilt weighing heavily on its shoulders, My Chemical Romance set out to create \u201cthe polar opposite of the Black Parade\u201d and, in turn, release itself from the dreaded tag that hung like a noose tightly around their necks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Is How The Story Ends.: My Chemical Romance and the Death of Emo – MSN Interview The article began its incendiary report rather matter-of-factly: \u201cA girl of 13 killed<\/p>\n

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