>Today is The Black Parade's 20th AnniversaryHow do we feel, millennial bros?
>>131934434I'm 30
>>131934434faggot tranny music
>>131934434Not ok
>>131934434I initially got into it through "Dead!" in Guitar Hero and from there explored the rest of the albums, back in the early 2010s.Initially, I loved The Black Parade, but as my relistens to I Brought You My Bullets deepened my love for the first album and reattempts of Danger Days deepened my hatred for the last, I began to detect a gradient artificiality in the album progression which slowly heightened the intolerability of this third.There's a rawness and genuineness that this album is lacking. It's full of dishonest stylistic, rhetorical, and emotional flourish deployed in a vain attempt to mask the fact they had already by then lost their edge, the pretense only fully dropped with the dreadful fourth album, but the seeds already sown here.Many may say and feel like Welcome To The Black Parade! is the capstone and send off to MCR's era of fixation with the dark, but in my opinion, it is rather the opening track of the lighter era encompassing Danger Days. "Dead!", rather better evokes the sentiment of finale like a bombastic race toward the light at the end of the tunnel. The mopeyness of Bullets tracks and even in something like the opening of Helena is completely eschewed, and yet there is of course a heavy morbid undertone which nevertheless sets it in-line with that tradition. It's a rather fatalistic statement upon the trajectory of the mentality this kind of music fostered prior, and a conscious decision to break away from the defeatist breakdown that all would have formerly encouraged."If life ain't just a joke, then why are we laughing?" represents a refusal to continue to take one's own suffering deathly seriously. It is fundamentally the enlightenment of the emo. The energetic pace of the music represents the invigoration one experiences in accepting their fate and the refusal to slowly die out on terms that aren't one's own, if death even must follow.No other track on the album even comes close message-wise.
WHEN I WAS
A YOUNG WARTHOOOOG
>>131934992cont.They all either nostalgia pander with the old-fashioned mopey sappiness stereotypical of "emo", or, like with "Welcome To The Black Parade!", they abandon all nuance and subtlety and beat you over the head with a disingenuous message about hope and striving that has no place in the tradition they'd established up to that point.If you compare "So long, and good night!" to whichever refrains of your choice from the two tracks I'm contrasting as exemplary, you'll find that "Dead!" and "Helena" share a notion of growth and progress as resignation, to reframe passivity away from impotence (customary of the emo ethos) and instead toward pacifity: stillness as inertia, to stillness as peace. It is to become unbothered, to laugh at life and its tribulations, rather than stew and wallow in one's crippling misery."Welcome..." overstates and hamfists where the former excellence instead presumes the depth behind simple statements translated without need for explicit communication through the shared comprehension of those meant to consume the music. "We'll carry on!" is so normalfag that you'll find the message in any media from anime to popstar break up tracks. There's no spirit in it as far as the soul of their music is concerned.I dislike The Black Parade because, on the whole, it's a caricature of what My Chemical Romance and their brand of "emo" actually was. Most tracks are uncanny valley and skin-crawlingly repulsive.
>>131934434i ain't millennial but i used to listen to this song a lot as for what i remember,
>>131934992>>131935077I know I've brought this up many times before but seeing that we now have a thread, I might as well do it again.The rediscovery and subsequent cult of personality around My Chemical Romance from late Millennials and Zoomers puzzle me. If you went to high school anytime in the 2000s, MCR was the band everyone made fun of along with Hot Topic-tier trash like Good Charlotte, The Used, AFI and Sum 41. The band was the face of everything wrong with Emo-Pop, but they found an audience of newer fans sometime between 2011-2016.Exactly what happened? What caused this sudden appreciation for MCR among younger fans?
>>131935115I am a late millennial and I always loved dark things. In the mid-2000s I was listening to Eminem, Linkin Park, and even The Queen Of The Damned soundtrack, and then later through Limewire and YouTube Panic! At The Disco, Mindless Self Indulgence, Papa Roach, Emilie Autumn, that whole milieu. I was on internet forums in the mid-to-late 2000s and made quite aware of the fact I was basically an "emo" colloquially. And even things I wasn't initially listening to like MCR and Nirvana, I eventually caught up to in the early 2000s.https://www.reddit.com/r/LilPeep/comments/1cf6nvz/what_bandsartists_did_peep_listen_to/Lil Peep is among the very first zoomers and even he listened to basically the same kind of stuff and subsequently made his brand this Sad Boys stuff.Basically your problem is you never interacted with anyone from this age group and so don't know what these kids already liked. Why were we so sad? Many of us disliked going to school and weren't popular with the people we wanted to be liked by, and our other tastes were seldom shared or understood. So we ended up resonating with such music.
>>131935222>I eventually caught up to in the early *2010s.
>>131934434>How do we feel, millennial bros?I'm 26! And I LOVE this album! I would consider this one of the first great commercial rock albums, along with the self-titled Celldweller LP and I Get Wet by Andrew W.K.
>>131934992>>131935077okay chatgpt
>>131934486Wrong album
>>131935222>>131935236I'm a core Millennial, so most of my peers were bumping Eminem, Korn, Slipknot, Linkin Park, HIM, 50 Cent or G Unit. Others did Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys and Yin Yang Twins. The kids who liked Rap regularly picked on MCR fans. Simple Plan was a band everyone made fun of especially once "How Could This Happen to Me" became such a meme.
>>131935115I feel the same about Linkin Park
>>131937321It's because CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIN was such a meme.
>>131935115>What caused this sudden appreciation for MCR among younger fans?As an elder zoomer, MCR was very unironically loved, that's probably a result of you being more in tune with more in-depth online discussions when those were still a thing. MCR was pop hot topic shit if and only if you were associating with a really active, still important emo scene that was still thriving at that time. For the random kids in public school, MCR was in fact the shit. Helena was untouchable. The MCR "revival" is as much an indictment of the maturing internet's desire to remove monocultural consensus from discussion as much as it is anything else, because they were genuine pop stars. See also: Paramore, FOB, any "fake" emo band from that time that were ridiculed by cool kids but insanely popular among kids at the timeThere's nothing to fill that void for kids today outside of shitty astroturfed memes, which also contributes to their really persistent popularity even for kids looking for something real
I saw them play "disenchanted" live, a year before the black parade came out.It was something else..
>>131934434Some good songs but overall dated and a little too on the nose and overly earnest. Three Cheers is infinitely better.
>>131934434Still the greatest album of the mid-late 2000s
>>131935115>>131937961Unironically because people stopped being so against the idea of depression and sad things being only for losers and teenagers over the last decade. Most people were, as far as I remember, very mocking of everyone that liked bands like these due to the fact that their aesthetic was considered too over the top because no one took the themes seriously. No wonder, I mean, specially with MCR, where they dressed up, wore make up and were very theatrical in nature. In the case of Linkin Park, people considered lyrics about suicide or self-harm to be "teenage bullshit", and talking about wanting to run away or escape from life was for losers, and, exclusively, for teenagers. Hell, I even remember Nirvana, which is heavily praised today, being mocked for that exact thing by people outside the scene, but after Kurt Cobain killed himself (which I'm convinced he did), people kind of took a step back and didn't say much, even if not that long prior to that people would still consider it music for teenagers. News surrounding teenagers killing themselves due to bullying were rampant in the mid two thousands, and people still attributed that to emo culture and music (remember those times?), which reinforced the stigma. Over time, people began seeing these bands, comprised now by people in their thirties, talking about the same stuff, and the teenagers that listened to that sort of music weren't teenagers anymore, and people began to not care as much because social media stopped the emo panic thing. Then, people from bands like these or even rock and metal starting dropping like flies, and people had to start taking the lyrics seriously. I remember the "Blinkin Park was real..." meme. On top of that, people from other genres also died (Lil Peep, as someone had mentioned before, and even XxxTentacion, which both fucking sucked, but whatever), and people began to see that there was something actually morbid and telling about the lyrics and themes.
>>131938587Cont.I also believe that from the late 90s to the mid 2000s, the general mainstream music culture was heavily pushed towards being happy, for some reason. No one in the early 2000s had anything bad to say about All Star and that kind of happy go lucky pop rock because it seemed that the market was saturated by it but still people respected it. Even hip hop took a turn, because the whole gangster thing was becoming outdated, and they began with trap shit about fucking bitches and having a lot of money, which is something that's still raging today. People unironically wanted to listen to "happy" music, for some reason. It's just recently that the mainstream has started to listen to things that actually makes them feel something, maybe because of the accessibility of streaming, maybe because people have more shit to say nowadays, and it shows. Do you think Drake was a good artist? Never, people just seem to be critical of his newer stuff (before the Kendrick Lamar beef or whatever the fuck), because they seem to expect more from artists now and he sounds and does the same shit he used to.
If each of the 4 MCR albums were poppier and more arena rock than the last, how non-emo do you think their new music would be if they ever release another album?
MCR = dogshit
its ok
Don't care awful band who's music is for 14 year olds
Emo faggot music you have to be an adult to post on here.
I'm happy to see /mu/ loves this album, unironically should be in the /mu/core at this point
>>131934434that girl in the "i don't love you anymore" mv was cute
>>131940303>music is for 14 year oldsThe sole purpose of emo music was to have sex with underaged girls.
>>131940303>>131940319why not just post: WAS YOUNG AND LIKED THIS BAND BUT NOW I'M OLDER YET STILL YOUNG ENOUGH TO FEEL I NEED TO DISTANCE MYSELF FROM THIS MUSICadorable, we all understand
>>131934434its gay
>>131935115I don't think it was sudden, they were always popular with kids but I guess the tiktok era romanticized the 2000's and its culture.And I think these days people have a renewed appreciation towards MCR and "emo" music in general because they listen to the music as it is, without the culture wars and imposed hot-topic aesthetics of the era. They realize the music is still good, unique and fascinating, and the "cringe" stuff about it is mostly just a byproduct of the time but they don't have to choose to follow it or hate it, just appreciate itin a few words, young people didn't live those times where "emo" was loved or hated, they just listen to the music without the social lens of the 2000's, and turns out, it's still good to them. Of course, you can make the argument that they have a different lens now, imposed by tiktok and algorithms, but that's another conversation
>>131940433It's the hair metal of the 00's, contrived commercial trend, youth oriented. Nothing special about it.
>>131938032>MCR was pop hot topic shit if and only if you were associating with a really active, still important emo scene that was still thriving at that timewhich emo scene are you referring to? Do you mean smaller but still commercially viable mall emo bands (Underoath, Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein, , SKSK, etc.) that never reached the arena level like MCR or Paramore, or do you mean "real" screamo bands like orchid that were too small for warped tour>The MCR "revival" is as much an indictment of the maturing internet's desire to remove monocultural consensus from discussion as much as it is anything elsenta but what are you saying here? I'm familiar with contemporary discourse on monoculture, but I don't understand what you mean by>remove monocultural consensus from discussionAre you saying that zoomers on the internet are attracted to MCR at least partly because they (falsely) perceive it as being this cool niche loser music, when in reality it was very popular among normies in the 2000s?
>>131934434I loved Three Cheers when I was a kid but I never listened to this in full. By the time it came out I had moved on to other bands and I thought the singles were overblown and corny. I'll give it a listen now because I've warmed back up to MCR in recent years.
>>131934434rest in peace bob. truly the most based individual the band ever had.
>>131939872They ARE going to release a new album in 2027.
>>131934434Last night's show at Hollywood Bowlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UszWe_bEa7k
>>131934486YOU WEAR MEEEE OUUUUUUUUUUTTT
>>131934434it was annoying when it came out but hearing it now is sort of nostalgic even if I can't stomach listening to the whole thing. just reminds me of "WHEN I WAS" threads on /b/ and playing habbo hotel.
>>131942955the new shows have been impressive, but i don't like how they retconned the story/concept
>>131944172t. chud
>>131934457Based fpbp. Nu-/mu/ has become invested with faggots and troons.
>>131944342what?
>>131944545Is that why you still show up everyday?
>>131944652It's the same schizo in every thread for over a year now. I'm only on this board a few times a week and even I recognise his cadence. Quite sad really.
>>131942955What did they mean by this?
>>131935115>>131938695it has everything to do with the death of Pop Punk and Alt Rock (American Pie core) and its replacement by Emo. Sometime around the late 00s it was decided that Fun music (bllink182, smash mouth, lit, sublime, sum41, etc) is not Good anymore and that only stuff about Feelings is. And its been that way ever since, there isnt really any Fun music any more at all, and modern Pop Punk bands are really Emo Pop, and Power Pop basically ended in the 90s
Horrible band that made immature music for teenagers. When did /mu/ become filled with 15 year olds?
>>131934434this isn't even just gay music, it's genuine faggot music
>>131946383Gay homo faggot music one might say
>>131934434we'll carry on
>>131945650/mu/ has a lot of women and gay men on it
>>131934434I was 12 when this album came out, it didn't have much of an effect on me
>>131935115New SincerityPeople loved them because it was campy and fun, while still being competently produced, without getting hung up on how it made them look to others. And eventually the performative trashing of subculture stuff faded away (or rather took on new forms over time)
>>131948461This, to me, is rich because so many MCR and Emo-Pop fans grew up to become hipsters. The Emo to Hipster pipeline was very noticeable. Death Cab for Cutie wasn't Emo-Pop, but they were very adjacent to fans of MCR.
I was 13 when this album came out. I hate all emo pop and pop punk (liked it when I was a kid). Even still, I have a softspot for MCR, even if I don't go out of my way to listen to them anymore. They're definitely different from their contemporaries. The 2000s were a musical wasteland in general.
I remember seeing the music video premier on mtv, then get played the fuck out. I was browsing /b/ while it was playing everyday in the background. lol
>>131948896Same. Yet their most vocal fans seem to be 18-25 now. Dunno how that works out, since they would've been children back when TBP was relevant
>>131948851>The 2000s were a musical wasteland in general.Tell me about it.>Latin Pop>Teen Pop>Boy bands>Pop "Punk">Ska Punk>landfill Indie>Post-Grunge>Nu-Metal>Pop Rap>Dirty South>Gangsta Rap>Crunk>Dancepop>Shitty Contemporary R&B>Shitty Pop "Country"At least we got kids interested in forgotten bands from yesteryear hence all the reissues of old albums along with all the filesharing.
>>131949021Yeah, I experienced it... so yes, you make an evocative list. But I don't need to ptsd right now kekI assumed file sharing wasn't much of a thing with the "youth" anymore. Would be happy to be wring though. Pirating is about the only good use of the internet anymore.
>>131949094I graduated high school in the late 2000s, so I was there with you. I was more into Punk, Metal and Hardcore as a teen.I still use Soulseek and it's thankfully being rediscovered.
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
>>131942955https://www.tmz.com/2026/10/23/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-take-issue-with-my-chemical-romance-dancers/lol
>>131944172What's the story now? I've not been following to hard.
>>131934434The Black Parade defined the sound of third-wave emo well: theatrical and exaggerated. It was my introduction to emo and opened my world to a new genre of music. I have a soft spot for concept albums ever since I heard NIN's "The Downward Spiral", and the Black Parade does it well. The songs don't feel any less meaningful outside the album's overall narrative. In fact, I admit to crying to "Cancer," "Dead!" and "Famous Last Words" by themselves more times than I wold like to admit. One criticism, I guess, is that they work so well by themselves that thinking about the overarching narrative weakens the emotional impact of the lyrics.It's not MCR's best album, but it's certainly something unique that stands on its own outside their discography, much greater than the band and even the genre it belongs to. The Black Parade is a life-changing work.
>>131953168couldn't tell you, seems all over the place. one thing I know, it's a lot bigger now than just a dude dying of cancer.
So incredibly fucking annoying that people call this album ""emo"" when it's like a fucking rock opera at best but it's good for what it is. Famous Last Words got me through some tough times, too
>>131948851Modern music is way worse than anything MCR ever did
>>131954367depends
