Why did so many millennials choose to listen to emo faggots screaming about getting raped in prison?
>>130191729I was just thinking about them today and about how I couldn't be caught listening to them by my older cousin without him belittling me and calling Gerard homophobic slurs. Good times.
had to be there i guess
>>130191729I remember people who never listened to them thinking that. In retrospect, they ended up probably being all around the best rock band of that era, lmao
>>130191953>ended up probably being all around the best rock band of that erathey had two pretty good albums (first two). then became cheesy radiosloppa.
I was 15 when that album dropped. I was heavily into Slipknot and Lamb of God at the time, and unironically, Good Charlotte. When I saw the I’m Not Okay video on MTV, I felt like I was watching some really lame poser pop shit. I was like, these guys in this video are complaining to their friends about being losers, but they have friends. They aren’t losers. And the high school in the video looked exactly like mine. They’re overlaying text about IF YOU EVER FELT REJECTED. Motherfuckers cosplaying as high schoolers who are sad because they have a friend group and enough money to constantly dye their hair and shit. Nothing about what they were marketing felt real. Good Charlotte was also known as a poser band, but those motherfuckers actually grew up poor and just made white bread pop punk. Mychem is probably the most flaming rich white theater kid music that has friends but larps as a loser music ever created. Oh and then they made concept albums that felt like tumblr fever dreams. Definitely teenager music.
>>130192467They literally became the biggest emo band of all time in the span of three (two if you don't count their debut) albums and still hold that title. Maybe not best emo band but certainly the most popular and well known. Most bands don't amount to jack shit after 3x that many albums desu
>>130192543Maybe you were actually a loser?
>>130192543>They’re overlaying text about IF YOU EVER FELT REJECTED.It's literally a parody of movie trailers
>>130192560Yeah, that’s my fucking point. I was the actual loser, so I could recognize fake losers.
>>130191729mcr was always poser shitthey even had commercialshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsfVOenuxEE
>>130192543I don't know, this guy looks kinda like a loser to me
>>130192579Well yeah. You will always be more of a loser than a highly successful, well-known musician. What is the point of your point?
>>130192543 why do you think they were rich?
>all this zoomer revisionismMCR is, was, and always will be for faglord poptimists.
>>130192639He had the ability to become a Chad. He got fat again during the hiatus working for DC then dropped it all again
>>130192829They were beloved back then too but they've become the poster children for that entire era which is weird but kinda makes sense with how much Black Parade merch was moving
>>130192639He looks like an affable fat kid that would’ve had female friends that liked being around him because he was sensitive, harmless, and listened to their problems, and possibly let them apply makeup to his face. He also looks like he would’ve been friends with high achievers. The fact that he was in the scope of recruitment channels for that TV show appearance says a lot about his socioeconomic status and demographic of that show since he was brought on to whine about being afraid of mascots instead if about starving and getting molested. Hard to starve when you can afford to be fat I guess.>>130192678Gerard went to an expensive art college and interned at Cartoon Network. Most of the members attended colleges. They were all upper-middle class.
>>130191729Millenials had it rough and they were the voice of the disenfranchised.
>>130193026ok? and he likely took out student loans to attend like most Americans do.
>>130193043Good bait
>>130192829MCR is rockist.
>>130193026Probably just middle class. They all seemed like plain folks living in normal towns like most. In debt up to their eyeballs and I can't imagine it's very hard to get an internship at Cartoon Network.
>>130191729MCR is the new Queen. Faggy overdramatic theater kid band, worshipped by reddit.
>>130193008They were beloved if you were amoung their target demographic aka women. Otherwise even fans of the lowest common denominators of Nu Metal felt comfortable calling you a cringe faggot for listening to them.>>130193026At this point you're just bragging about being neglected and molested as a child, anon
>>130192829lol ok bud
Black Parade is so overrated. They were good before that but once all their songs started sounding like cabaret musical BS they lost it. Good for them for making money and playing stadiums, I guess.
>>130193228Anon, they were over as fuck. I don't know why people try to pretend this band wasn't massive. You don't have to like them. I think they're alright. You can't deny their popularity though. And no one gave a single fuck about nu metal by the time Three Cheers hit.
God this era of emo was fucking awful. Cringe af with wanna-be pop artists sprinkling in a little eyeliner and some throat fucking the mic screams.
>>130193688Okay, grandpa. Maybe your nurse will roll you out in the sun for a bit
>>130193569I don't deny their popularity, they were obviously big, but so was making fun of them. They had a reputation of being a "emo band" and their fanbase was largely female, so they were considered effeminate and whiny. Kinda how Justin Bieber was simultaneously massively popular and heavily reviled, but in a lesser scale.
>>130193698>they were obviously big, but so was making fun of them.this is true of every popular artist
>>130191729Everyone listens to MCR you retarded faggot.
>>130193698>their fanbase was largely femaleNot seeing a problem here. I'd rather be surrounded by a bunch of pussy than some fat dipshits trying to mosh.
>>130191729um that wasn't rape, it was consensual
>>130193797he doesn't sound thrilled about the situation in the song
Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Genesis... all tedious overrated acts, with impotent and worn out sound, but still gassed by retards with no mind of their own, chasing "critical/hispter" consensus. MCR was the evolution of punk, glam and other genres born in the 70s, as anthemic as arena rock, as emotional as glam, with the intensity of punk/post-hardcore, they perfected the blending of genres that were still new and "cutting edge" when those bands were in their heyday, they were the culmination of all rock, the reason rock "died" after the 2000s, is that virtually all viable ground had been covered, now, you either get rym slop like geese, or bands that get by, by copying the past (Turnstile being almost a discount Bad Religion etc...) Face the fact : MCR was the "apex predator", if rock were a jungle, MCR was a rhino/african elephant/lion.
>>130191729Why do zoomers like to rewrite history? This band was looked down on way more than nickleback. You would get bullied for listening to hot topic scene shit
>>130193765You're enlightened, but anything that was popular with women would get bad rep.
>>130193688Grandpa here would rather listen to the emo revival era than anything the 2000s had.
Refused shits all over anything MCR did. MCR were the fart fumes of innovators. The Used were infinitely better than MCR as well, which is notable because they were peers. What I noticed is that MCR had the greatest impact on Zillennials. My younger brother was born in 1995 and most kids his age reflect on MCR as being a lot more impactful than they were. It's just a lack of perspective.
>>130194752The Used album sales : ~ 3 million MCR album sales : over 10 million Sales don't matter ? https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/my-chemical-romance/the-black-parade/ VShttps://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-used/the-used/ Still not enough ?, rolling stones, nme among other music magazine critics have placed mcr albums among the "greatest albums" lists, the used ? : is in none. If everyone tells you're the problem, maybe you really are. "Refused..." what an appropriate name !, they were indeed the useless refuse that better bands threw away. Someone >>130194752 with very shitty taste in music is very butthurt...
>>130193371Filling a stadium with Reddit powermods is an embarrassment, not an accomplishment.
>>130191729Milennials? MCR is a zoomer band
>>130194992MCR became a polished turd band and had a massive marketing budget. They are popslop on the level of 30STM, but 30STM even has better songs.
>>130194436>You would get bullied for listening to hot topic scene shitnot really. everyone was on myspace back then listening to emo sloppa and wearing skinny jeans.
>>130195273Cope and cry, that's all you can do when you've been totally debunked.
i’ve got a shrimp farm to sell you if you think any generation of men who ever lived would be caught dead doing this https://youtu.be/9FL5VoXKVf0>>130192829yup. >>130193371>dddurrrr how can pop half fill a small stadium>dddduuurrrrr
>>130193371What's this supposed to prove other than what I said?
i feel like most emo music didnt age well except a handful of bands. basically 1/1000 bands were good.
>>130195306https://youtu.be/lFn_j23pqIEName a single mcr song that goes harder than this
>>130195640https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zntsH1ceN5I&list=RDzntsH1ceN5I&start_radio=1&pp=ygUVdGhlIHVzZWQgdGFrZSBpdCBhd2F5oAcB&ra=mFixed link
Does anyone remember when Three Cheers had a 3.00 average on rym?
>>130195300Everyone was listening to ghetto rap who do you think you are fooling? You were just some hot topic nerd and can’t comprehend a world outside your worldview
>>130196438It's almost like everyone had very different experiences growing up or something. It's crazy.
>>130193026He was in the audience of that TV show because he worked for one of the speakers on stage, Hart D. Fisher, an indie comic book publisher, Gerard's first comic book was published by him. Fisher wrote a controversial comic book about Jeffrey Dahmer and they were debating about if comic books should depict violent and mature content. By the way, that guy is very bitter about Gerard's fame.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LQmdkO8DUThe first person speaking.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_D._Fisher
>>130196746Hart D. Fisher is an all around scumbag and edgelord retard. Have a couple horror anthologies and his stuff is in them and it's trash
>>130196539Yeah, yet you claim everyone was listening to your cringe band.
>>130196746OH SHIT. Gerard was an audience plant for his senpai.
Why listen to this pop punk slop when you can be listening to stuff like I Hate Myself, Sunny Day Real Estate, Indian Summer, Cap'n Jazz, Modest Mouse, Sleepytime Trio, The Spirit of Versailles, Suis La Lune, Twelve Hour Turn, Funeral Diner, Lowercase, Unwound, Calm, Corea, Built To Spill, Shotmaker, ATDI, Drive Like Jehu, Seam, Lync, etc. which you will enjoy much more.
>>130197008Didn't claim anything. Not that other anon either. Get a grip.>>130197029He was doing comics for that guy's press at the time so not really a plant>>130197086I listen to all of those bands and MCR.
>>130192543having fellow losers as company doesn't suddenly make you not a losercase in point: your socialization on 4chan
>>130192829>introduces xer own deranged revisionism
>>130191729when i was
I wish I got into them when they were at their heyday instead of my mid 20s.
>>130197086because none of those bands knew how to write actual well-constructed songs.
>>130198896SDREA write some incredibly well constructed songs that stick in your head. Built To Spill make borderline pop music. MCR wrote some catchy music as well but most of the audience just want of fuck Gerard when you get to the heart of the matter.
>>130191729>why is the gayest generation in history so gayit's a mystery
I’m just going to identify as gen z from now on even though I’m 37. I’m tired of being persecuted.
>>130199318zoomie xir says what?
Their music sucks (as all emo/post-hardcore/pop-punk/whatever does), but I would bang prime Gerard.
>>130199421MCR makes Black Sabbath, Porcupine Tree, Nirvana, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, King Crimson/Genesis, Depeche Mode etc... look like dogshit in comparison, MCR 2nd and 3rd albums are much better than anything any of those bands ever produced.
>>130199458>MCR makes Black Sabbath, Porcupine Tree, Nirvana, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, King Crimson/Genesis, Depeche Mode etc... look like dogshit in comparisonOkay buddy
>>130199421he was only the third hottest in the band desu.
>>130194195This, though I do like 70s rock
>>130199382millenials invented the xir xim shit.
I always appreciated that one of their guitarists (the one with the short hair) seemed like a real punk, screaming into the mic and thrashing his guitar like crazy. Like he had his own little hardcore show going on during their performances.
we're not those teenagers any more, OP. we can just admit when an album is good (or a band's best) because it's enjoyable to listen to.
>>130199712and zoomies swallowed it wholesale. millennials may be gay, but zoomers are a generation of gender goblins.
>>130192543>Mychem is probably the most flaming rich white theater kid music that has friends but larps as a loser music ever created. at least they were a real band. are you ignoring the fact that Paramore was Hayley Williams' talent agent mom and rich dad's third attempt to make her a star?they just took over some other kids' garage band, so that their little princess could be famous. the brothers wrote about it all on their LiveJournal, nobody cared though because Hayley Williams was teh smexiest!!!1 xDcall me a schizo all you want: this shit is beyond seedy. it's what /pol/ conspiracy nuts claim about 'the Jews', except here it is happening for real.
>>130199458lmao very wrong, but also don't care. Would still bang the singer>>130199692I disagree, but I guess variety is the spice of life.
>>130200094ok but their shitty garage band would have never amounted to jack shit without her. josh still gets his miz biz royalties, so he can't be too salty.
>>130200199of course, i agree with you anon. there are thousands of shitty garage bands that didn't make it, some of them were probably breddy gud.but anon was stating MCR was all fake poseur shit, when if there's ANY band of the same style/era that should be applied to...
>>130200109you just KNOW
>>130195488>muh manosphere influencers told me to think this waykThe great thing about growing up and getting old is realizing how fucking retarded and fake all this worrying about what imaginary people might think about trivial bullshit.
>>130200319but MCR is still fake poser shit regardless so what's your point?
>>130200720suck my cock and balls
>>130199712No, that was a literal boomer writer (Kate Bornstein). Everything zoomers try to blame millennials for out of seething resentment can actually be traced back to boomers or gen X.
>>130200720they had two good albums. it's Gerard Way's comic books career that was artificially boosted by who he was, not the quality of his work.
>>130200109>filename
lay off the Millennials man this is getting fucking demonic.
>>130201477gonna cry? get a s0ƴ latte and some avocado toast lmao.
bump
>>130202965Why?
>>130202985why you on my dick bitch?
>>130203356You have another man on your dick?
>>130191729I was listening to Zeppelin.
>>130203443Ok, so you were just listening to someone sing like they were getting raped in prison.
>>130203472Yes, about Hobbits.
>>130203379you're the one that hopped on there, fag
>>130200109MCR first 3 albums are better than the noodling bullshit of Led Zeppelin, or Talking Heads albums, if you don't agree, it's not my fault your music taste is as shitty as nineveh's own. 1970s bands are EXTREMELY overrated for what they actually accomplished, more out of respect ("they were here first") than the quality of the music itself
>makes theatrical arena pop rock>omg this is the best band evarJust say you like pop music. Mindless Self Indulgence is better than Mychem. That’s probably why Gerard married Lyn-Z.
>>130203867The Black Parade is only one of their albums, it is not the end-all-be-all of their style. Also MSI is unlistenable pure distilled cringe.
>>130203867>Mindless Self Indulgence is better than MychemLet's not get too carried away
>>130203922Pure distilled basedjuice. If you’re so smart, explain this clarissa. Explain this. Clarissa. Clarissa. dAT DAT DoW
>>130203867>mindless self indulgence is...Yeah... your music taste is utter dogshit indeed, compare the ratings for MCR vs MSI on rym/aoty (or the inclusion of MCR on rolllingstone/NME "greatest albums list" since you care so much about critic consensus) you're just a salty retard, too afraid of what others might think if you admit the obvious truth I said. 1970s band worship is the refuge of cowards too dumb and afraid to form an opinion, hiding behind pretentiousness.
>>130203991Oh yeah? If my taste is so bad, check out my top albums of 2025*crosses arms*
>>130204019wait... we were getting trolled by the emily armstrong fag this whole time?
>>130191729People listened to it to not be like those annoying music elitist guys. Saying "I like MCR" was like telling someone you won't judge their music taste. "It's so bad it's good" phenomenon.
>>130204163Heh. I can do this all day. I listen to music in my sleep.
>>130204318MCR isn't "bad" at all, only idiots think they are, they're legitimately one of the top 5 best 2000s bands, that's the reason people listened, and still do.
>>130203840>MCR first 3 albums are better than the noodling bullshit of Led Zeppelin, or Talking Heads albumsFor you
>>130204682yeah! he has good taste and is correct !!
>>130203867>>130203928They aren't doing the same kind of music, so it's a weird comparison.You weren't listening to My Chemical Romance and Mindless Self Indulgence as an either-or. You were listening to them both. How else do you think they met, except by being at the same shows, playing for the same audiences?At any rate, in my opinion, only I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love and Tight are holistically good albulms with more gems than chaffe. The rest have varying degrees of trash mixed with good stuff. I am more of a MSI fan than a MCR fan, with each output's sum total weighing more in favor of MSI for me, but at the end of the day, they both became trash in the 2010s.
>>130204659Have you listened to it?
just lyrics etc., but is it not really vain to assume you'd get raped in prison? even if you're skinny or effeminate or whatever it is?maybe it's different in the US, but everyone in the UK i know who's been in prison says men bumming each other is incredibly rare. it does happen, but it's consenting men. 'prison gay' the same way as if they were in the Navy. it's never rape like in the jokes and the movies.
>>130204959In the US it's actually similar to the UK but getting raped in prison is still a stereotype
>>130205006cope.>>130204959it's true and very common, just another interesting facet of american "culture"
>>130194992>Caring about Album Sales
>>130209530it's probably the same dumbass who keeps linking to rym rankings like they are objective measures of quality
>>130209619No one fucking cares about critics or "Musical" criticism. No one that actually listens to music at least.
>>130209619there is no objective measure. acting like rolling stone lists are even remotely worthy of consoderation shows what a tard you are.
>>130209538What qualifies as an "objective measure of quality" then ?, you're both pretending to be ingenuous morons, and not see that the guy didn't mention only sales, or rym ranks, but music criticism, Rollingstone, for example, ranked TBP 361 on their "500 greatest albums list", it received several other accolades as well, so either provide an "objective measure" or shut the fuck up, and if no objective measures exist, then why is /mu/ so obsessed with picking critics approved albums for it's "/mu/ core" ?, and shitting on albums that aren't ? you're both pathetic. As another anon mentioned, old /mu/ was a pathetic bunch like the both of you, herd mentality following "music critics mandates".
Instead of hiding behind your Sales and Fagtano critics. Tell me WITH YOUR OWN WORDS why MCR "Shits" on these bands you listed. You're a grown up with your own opinions aren't you?
>>130209654See >>130209630And >>130209632And also >>130209665
>>130209665Talking to a schizo like you is a complete waste of my time, I gain nothing from "trying to prove" anything, or from interacting with an absolute shit-for-brains who thinks every anon who likes MCR is secretly the same person.
>>130209685>who thinks every anon who likes MCR is secretly the same person.idk bro, your behavior in this thread seems like pretty good evidence for that hypothesis.
>>130209685You're the shizo trying to convince me to ACTUALLY CARE about Sales and Critics.
>>130209654>What qualifies as "an objective measure of quality"?You use your fucking ears.A statement like this for something as abstract as music must mean you're either Retarded/Autistic or both. If you say Band A is better than Band B you then list examples as to why (i.e become YOUR OWN music critic). Instead of saying >"Huuurrrr duurrrr Band A is more successful so that makes them better. Just look at how ROLLING FUCKING STONE of all things talk about them".
>>130209782You're wrong, a band being successful is literally the only valid criticism, the only other is personal/subjective (even if coming from 1 or several "critics") and for that one you absolutely DON'T NEED to "list" anything whatsoever, just by liking it more that's all the proof you need.
>>130209481It's not even American culture, it's boomers in an eternal state of arrested development thinking that the same stale "jokes" they've been telling for 50 years are the peak of humor.
>>130209838Why is Band A better than Band B? >Oh I just like them more........Also they have massive sales and accolades. You can still list reasons why you PREFER Band A over Band B. You simply revile in being an unlikable fag
>>130209838So you admit there actually IS NO OBJECTIVE measure for music. By stating you just have to like this over this you already refuted the bullshit you've been spewing this whole thread.
>>130209866You're the unlikable and retarded fag, the "accolades" don't mean anything, it's just critics expressing their subjective taste, the people above were bitching exactly over THAT inclusion "dur.. sales...dur...Rollingstone/rym" if a band is successful = more people like the music, if not = less do, simple math, the music reaches more people, anything else is subjective.
>>130191729why? because the music has a diverse range of influences. MCR references In The Flesh off of PF’s The Wall and they have some blues numbers as well
>>130191729No one who listened to emo or punk or whatever liked this at the time. This was firmly in the realm of chick/poser music. It still is. It was cool in Burnout 3 but it's historical revisionism to pretend this was popular outside of chicks and normies.
>>130209901Have you ever considered that to reach multiple people in music you need resources (i.e a music label to advertise your shit and pay these magazines to even think about mentioning you"?Majority of the time its simply a matter of who has the most resources to put themselves out more.Very rarely will a musician gain recognition by simply being themselves without any help/resources. You do know that Music Radio for the longest time (even now) simply engaged in Pay for Play for whoever was the higher bidder. You don't get on the radio by being good. You get on there by paying the premium. And then Bam, you're successful simply because everyone was forced/subjected to HAVE to hear your bullshit everywhere they go. Very objective indeed.
>>130193698If grls like something it becomes instantly uncool.>>130193765How's the weather in Mumbai?
>>130194195>>130199701>upboating your own post
>>130200094>at least they were a real band. are you ignoring the fact that Paramore was Hayley Williams' talent agent mom and rich dad's third attempt to make her a star?>>130206502It was never not like this.
>>130209936What a load of bullshit, how's nepobaby geese going ? with it's 1.7m spotify listeners ?, same as Silverstein, money doesn't buy you success in music. you can be a manufactured pop artist, and have others write songs for you, but that's not what we're talking about here, which radio made gen z like Likin Park/MCR ?, which one made Mary On A Cross/Space Song, and the bands that wrote them, famous ? = none, they don't listen to any.
>>130200094>crawling straight from your trailer park in Mississippi and calling yourself a talent agent
>>130209969The Beatles, being the biggest shills in history while also having some of the most talented artists. Poor boys who's label lucked out on having them, helped them more and more with their tours and recording as they gained more recognition.Linkin Park was rejected by multiple labels before signing to FUCKING WARNER BROS that lucked out and HELPED THEM more and more after their amazing 1st album EVERY ARTIST YOU LISTED STILL HAD A FUCKING LABEL AND RESOURCES that helped propell them. That doesn't mean they're shit dumbass. Still doesn't refute that YOU NEED RESOURCES. Some already had the resources. Some needed to prove they're worthy of it. Two things can inversely exist but the point still stands. Go back to Reading Rolling Stone
>>130209937How's your sex life? Non-existent? Yes, we could all tell
>>130210034The Beatles suck ass. Stopped reading at your opening sentence
>>130210074Sorry. Didn't realize I was talking to Boybandfag. 10/10 troll. Still feel good besting you tho.
Paramore were just Avril Lavigne with guitars.
