News Is My Chemical Romance the New ICP?
posted by on May 8 at 13:17 PM
The Telegraph UK just reported on the suicide of a 13 year old Emo girl in England:
Hannah Bond, 13, hanged herself from a bunk bed in her bedroom with a tie believing her death would impress fellow followers of the “emo” movement, it was said.
The article continues:
She had secretly chatted to “emo” followers online all over the world, talking about death and the glamorisation of hanging and speaking about “the black parade” - a place where “emos” believe they go after they die.On her page on Bebo, the online networking site, she told friends with names like Sam Suicide, that she was obsessed with the American band My Chemical Romance, who hit number one with their last album The Black Parade.
Man, “Emo” sure has changed since I was 16 singing Something to Write Home About in my car. When did genres of music morph into a lifestyles, then into spiritual beliefs? The only comparable example to this new My Chemical Afterlife is Insane Clown Posse and their “Dark Carnival.” From Urban Dictionary:
The Dark Carnival is a supernatural Earthbound force. Eternally it roams collecting and judging the dead souls, and taking them to their final destination. It is what spreads he word of God eternally, so if anyone had told you of God or Jesus, it was by the will of the Carnival. It is called the Carnival because that is the way it adapted, it has become a great circus-like force because of the way it has been set up by God and the people who have been called to it. It also sets a bound for acceptance to all you would have to enhibit to be a part. Holy or evil, those who would turn away from strange ideas are not the type of people needed and sought out by the Carnival.The Carnival has not always been around, it is fairly recent. It was creation, made for the purpose of the end of the world. Armageddon is believed to Juggalos to be coming very soon, now that the six have fallen, we are in a calm, and the Storm (the Tempest) is soon to come. The Carnival is the force that will destroy Hell and Earth to make way for a more perfect world, but that presents a problem In such dark times there are many more in hell than will be fighting them, and the Carnival acts as sort of a draft for this war of good versus evil. Those who will fight are those who were lost from the word of God, or those who were full of hate and sin, who were then saved and made faithful. They were the perfect candidates, they were Juggalos.
“The Black Parade” and “the Dark Carnival”… looks like Emos and Juggalos have more in common then they might have thought.
What does it mean when people start holding up Something to Right Home About as a paragon of emo?
If you're going to get all 2nd wave about it, at least go back a couple steps to Braid or Cap'n'Jazz—something to Rites of Spring home about.
Sorry, I wish I didn't care about this pointless, lost battle, but I so do.
I was a little too young to get the first wave, Get Up Kids were the shit when it was my time. I did like Braid though.
Maybe I should have referenced "Four Minute Mile."
Four Minute Mile = Way more emo cred (like the guyliner crowd even gives a shit).
OMG dewds i totes had the first Atmosphere album on vinyl!
I'm sure the Emo nation was quite impressed. Perhaps they could make it a contest?
Man, “Emo” sure has changed since I was 16 singing Something to Write Home About in my car.
I had the exact same thought. Kids these days scare the crap out of me.
"When did genres of music morph into a lifestyles, then into spiritual beliefs?"
this happens all the time and has been happening forever
The lifestyle part yes, but not the spiritual part. If you think that happens all the time you gotta give some examples.
So that's the word for Goth now, eh? Fair enough.
"When did genres of music morph into a lifestyles, then into spiritual beliefs?"
There is a Saint John Coltrane Church in SF, for one.
http://www.coltranechurch.org/
This article was complete BS, and extremely misleading to anyone not already familiar with My Chemical Romance or the current emo scene. "The Black Parade" is not a spiritual belief at all... it's the name of their album and a pseudonym. It was a concept album about the death of a cancer patient and what happened after. At their concerts, they'd play as MCR for a while, then change costume and return as "The Black Parade," which was a different band with a more subdued persona, and then they would sing their newer material.
As for the rest of the article, the idea that My Chemical Romance of all bands would cause suicide is absurd. They released a DVD detailing the lead singer's own battle with depression and addiction, and how he overcame it, in order to lead by example and help fans overcome their own problems. On top of this, at all of their concerts and in some interviews, he makes speeches about how, if you feel depressed or suicidal, or know someone who is suicidal, please please talk to an adult or get help immediately. Even in front of their songs that use relatively violent imagery, they'll include disclaimers about how "violence is never the answer; if you're unhappy please get help." The Black Parade includes lyrics like "I am not afraid to keep on living / I am not afraid to walk this world alone." I don't know them personally, but the insinuation that they could assist a child's suicide would probably crush them.
In other words, please, anyone, do your research before you take this article seriously.
ummm .. i think someone might not to mention the fact that MCR is not EMO.
Ohhhh speaking of Emo. Anyone else remember when Antioch Arrow put out that goth record as a joke? Well, they SAID it was a joke, but really, can a whole albums worth of new material really be a joke? It's pretty bad for the most part, but compared to any of this, it's actually pretty amazing.
cap'n'jazz was the bees knees.
When did Emo's get a Valhalla?
@13 - to this day, i still love that last Antioch Arrow record. not as good as In Love With Jets, but still pretty fucking awesome.
Is this really news? Kids have been making poor choices to bad music for decades.
Why isn't it front page news when some kids dig up a corpse and use its skull to make a bong?
Because wake up, Earth. That happened:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5764886.html
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