My Chemical Romance: “Rock N’ Roll Isn’t About MySpace Friends”
Of course it isn’t, we’ve all moved on to Facebook. Get with the times, Grandad!
My Chemical Romance have been giving their outlook on the essence of rock n’ roll whilst recording their brand new album.
Speaking to Spinner, Gerard Way has said: “There’s a definite undercurrent of fame versus working class, people having stuff handed to them with zero talent versus working class kids that start a band. Rock ‘n’ roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends — rock ‘n’ roll is dangerous and rock ‘n’ roll should piss people off. Right now, there’s not a lot of that happening. What it is is a lot of people trying to be famous. That seems to be the goal.”
Piss people off? You succeeded! Gold star for Mr Gerard Way!
Dangerous? Hmmm. Is reworking Queen really that dangerous? Was ‘I Don’t Love You’ dangerous? Really?
Anyway, MCR will have a new album out in 2010 that will be dangerous and rock n’ roll. You heard it here first.





Am i the only one thinking he can’t look at himself in a Mirror?
I mean “its people trying to get famous”…what happened with them? 2nd album and they hit big, go talk to the bands who have been going for 20+ years and still haven’t hit the same heights as these gits and thats what real music is about.
The music, not the money!
hahahahaha their music is really dangerous? hahahaha. I haven´t heard anything more commercial, snob and silly than MCR. Well, some of those sacred metal bands have terribly stupid lyrics too, but they hide their emptiness with some rude screams, and everything’s all right while their fans shake their heads as idiots. hahaha
Gerard Way can go make love to a crayon.
That shouldn’t be coming from him!
Does anybody actually care?
Ha ha ha ! This guy’s so funny… and pretty pathetic.
Of course MCR are dangerous! They cause my ears to bleed and make me want to stab myself in the eye.
If Rock ‘n’ Roll should piss people off then MCR are possibly the most Rock ‘n’ Roll band around
just cos a band are succesful doesnt mean that they are sellouts.. kiss on the other hand.. lol
Facebook thing was jokes bruv lozlz but chav langauge aside these guys are wank and way doesnt deserve tohavesuch a smoking hot wife
This band seriously don’t deserve as much hate as they get. Yeah they are very “eh” at times but there are far worse bands out there. I’d even say I like a few of their songs. I know I’m going to get a lot of shit for this, but I don’t really care. It’s bands like Hollywood Undead that are truly ruining music.
of course it’s going to be dangerous, anyone who listens to it will want to kill themselves
Not long ago Metal Hammer… you were reporting positive news on this group. have we falled out?
Wait… Why is MCR even appearing on Metalhammer. even for slaggings this band shouldn’t be on here.
ha ha silly MCR leave rock n roll to the pros…..like Lemmy!
Did kerrang buy Metal Hammer yesterday without me knowing? Get these twats off this site.
gerard way is such a twat that he even makes matt tuck look like less of a bellend! yes there are worse bands than mcr (unbelievable i know) but lets hope metal hammer dont cover anything worse!
What a stupid retard Way is. What idiots like him who have made the big time, who don’t have the worry about selling their music as their 13 year old fans will buy whatever tosh they bring out, fail to realise is that a lot of bands depend on myspace as the only way to get their music across to their fans worldwide! These bands can’t afford world tours to promote their music so who is he to criticise it! And as for facebook. It’s just for the mainstream popular masses so why metal fans would want to go on there when we have and never will be accepted by the ‘mainstream’ is beyond me!
Humm odd choice Metal Hammer why do you think we would care? We don’t!
Still I agree with Greg there are much worse band out there……Brokencyde anyone
I’mma get a lot of stick for saying asically, ‘Lay off the guy’, but I’m nevertheless gonna say it. Though their latest album may not have been as dangerous as their first record (literally best described as Black Flag+The Smiths +Horror movies. Honey THis Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us could definitely be called dangerous) which was pretty much so scuzzy and genre-clashy that it could be hard to listen to, and I personally don’t like it as much, it’s more subversive than, say, Machine Head’s The Blackening (from the same year) inasmuch as it’s putting metal, fucked-up, dangerous concepts and ideas in pop songs that are getting played on the radio: Teenagers (a shite song, but that may have ben a deliberate meta-musical thing) was about teenagers being brainwashed by the bullshit status quo whilst being fed homogenised, conformist, ’safe’ rebellion in the majority of ‘Alternative’ music. That’s not necessarily metal, but that’s punk as fuck. And Mama was still pretty dangerous: the polka-y/poppy song turning into a breakdown taken straight from Candlemass or Down with Gerard Way screaming lyrics about mortality and life’s futility before suddenly everything cuts out and it’s just Liza Minelli singing. MCR are definitely not metal, and nor are they straight-up punk, but they are subversive as fuck, dangerous, piss people in the mainstream off (hilarious Daily Mail articles et al) far more than metalheads (the mainstream paints us as a metalhead ghetto or punk ghetto – it’s much scarier for them to see this stuff coming from the mainstream, from where they thought was safe) and did work, rather than using mySpace: touring in a van for 5 years (bands who tour for 20 years but don’t get that level of success still generally get a tourbus after about 5years) and badgering the bands they liked to take them on tour rather than getting as many plays as they could on mySpace and then taking that number to a record label. If you’re 100% committed to the music, you don’t need mySpace: you tour toilets until more and more people come to the shows. And if you stillcan’t accept MCR as dangerous, bear in mind the guitar player also sings for LeATHERMOUTH, screaming incomprehensible lyrics about serial killers and revolution over disquieting and thrashing metalcore, and Way sang on ETID’s second record.
SHUT THE FUCK UP. MCR deserved to get big. GERARD IS NOT AN IDIOT. I dont criticize your heroes. If you gave a damn, you would know that was suffering from depression for YEARS. MCR was just like anyother band. Trying to make a difference. They had no money. AND OTHER BANDS HELPED THEM. MCR saved my life, and I would never ever bash the “shit” that you listen to.
whats funny about them is that back in 2002 they were giving their music away on myspace (citing Blender Magazine). Then they got big and seemed to forget that they owed places like Myspace for their fame.
They also pissed quite a few people off when Gerard Way told little girls that he wanted to hear them moan for them (Belfast, Germany).
He also went against his stance with PETA when he rented a monkey for his pregnant wife.
just sayin…
LMAO, Nice one hammer. BURN.
Terry Bezer, I love you.
Gerard has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. He thinks rock and roll is supposed to be dangerous? Seriously, he thinks their new albums is gonna be dangerous? Ha! This is a guy who talks out of his ass, then attempts to keep changing his sound by trying to copy the sound of other bands, and make his band seem like a cheap imitation.
He’s an arrogant moron.
Dangerous? Iv seen more dangerous bunnies.
MCR can go get flushed down a chemical toilet for all i care. They suck!!!!
MCR returning with a new album………QUICK!!!! BARRICADE THE DOORS SECURE THE WINDOWS THE ARMY OF EMO’S ARE COMING BACK EEEEEKKKK SAVE ME DICKINSON SAVE ME HETFEILD
Goddamn why can’t these guys evaporate from existence, When I hear them I wanna put a metal bin over my head and bash it with a hammer aweful aweful band
what an utter fanny and the facebook thing was funny lol