History Music / MyChemicalRomance

* ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' (2004)

Their 2004 sophomore album ''Music/ThreeCheersforSweetRevenge'' proved to be their breakthrough release, spurred on by the success of the singles "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)". It is now viewed as an essential album of the early 2000s {{Emo}} scene with its theatrical sound, gothic aesthetics, and powerful mix of post-hardcore aggression and strongly crafted songs.

Their 2004 sophomore album ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' proved to be their breakthrough release, spurred on by the success of the singles "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)". It is now viewed as an essential album of the early 2000s {{Emo}} scene with its theatrical sound, gothic aesthetics, and powerful mix of post-hardcore aggression and strongly crafted songs.

My Chemical Romance is an American {{alternative rock}} band, often cited as a quintessential example of the [[EmoMusic emo]] genre (but don't tell them that--also, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that's not a bad thing]]). Their music is best described as a mixture of PostHardcore, PopPunk accessibility, horror punk-influenced lyrics and stylings, and a heaping dose of over the top theatrics and album rock storytelling straight out of the 1970s--all of this presented with the look of a GothRock band.

The band formed in [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] around late 2001 and released their first song, "Skylines and Turnstiles." The band has said that the theme and style of their music was initially inspired by their feelings during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. They released their debut album ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'' in 2002, combining elements of HardcorePunk, PostHardcore, and [[EmoMusic emo]]. Its lead single, "Vampires Will Never Hurt You," became a hit on college radio.

Their 2004 sophomore album ''Music/Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' proved to be their breakthrough release, spurred on by the success of the singles "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)". It is now viewed as an essential album of the early 2000s {{Emo}} scene with its theatrical sound, gothic aesthetics, and powerful mix of post-hardcore aggression and strongly crafted songs.

Their final album, 2010's ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys'' divided the fanbase with its lighter sound and design, more heavily influenced by GlamRock and PowerPop. Other fans consider it an excellent album in its own right. Its sound incorporates indie rock, dance-rock, pop punk, and Stooges-era Garage Rock. It also features a storyline, but this one is more frantic, enthusiastic, and exuberant than the morbid tragedy of the last.

The band [[https://twitter.com/MCRofficial/status/1207909921930371072?s=19 privately got back together in 2017]] and and played a reunion show in Los Angeles in December 2019, with plans for a small tour (with Australian, Japanese and New Zealand dates) and festival appearances in 2020. However, the band's status afterwards is uncertain.

Their 2004 sophomore album ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' proved to be their breakthrough release, spurred on by the success of the singles "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)". It is now viewed as an essential album of the early 2000s {{Emo}} scene with its theatrical sound, gothic aesthetics, and powerful mix of post-hardcore aggression and strongly crafted songs.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: They have abrasive punk/rock songs about death, revolution, and [[MindScrew sundry types of weirdness,]] but they are adamantly nice people off-stage. The "Teenagers" video ends with a note that [[SincerityMode if you feel hurt or angry enough to cause violence, please don't do it.]] Most of Gerard's interview quotes [[https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/gerard_way are very, very sweet and definitely good-natured.]]

* SignatureSong: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8 Welcome To The Black Parade]]. Without a doubt.

** "Burn Bright" combines this with BiTheWay/queer subtext: ''They always told me that "You never get to Heaven / With a love like yours" / Well, if if you're lost, little boy...''

* UndeathlyPallor: Everybody in the {{protagonist}}'s non-hospital scenes in "Welcome to the Black Parade," [[AmbiguousSituation whatever's going on there]]. (Is it post-death or somewhere between life and death? Whatever the case, the non-hospital people are sickly pale, whereas the protagonist actually has color to his skin while battling for his life in the hospital, and so do the nurses.)

** As some bands do, Gerard enjoys crowd participation. Unlike most bands, he sometimes SINGS the instructions to replace the lyrics. [[https://youtu.be/B8liy0pDq5Y Catch the 2008 performance of "Mama" in Mexico]] where he [[CrazyAwesome sings a cartoonish intro and tells folks to start clapping.]]

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[[caption-width-right:347: L-R: Frank Iero, Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way.]]

---> ''So long, and goodnight...''

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Vocal version--Frank's pretty skinny and short, but he screams like a maniac.

** Sometimes Gerard just waits a single ''{{beat}}'' of quiet and then [[CarefulWithThatAxe starts screaming bloody murder.]]

* LyricalColdOpen: "Teenagers", "Famous Last Words", "Boy Division".

** The duality also goes the other way around: Gerard often uses punk-screaming for lyrics that are quite cheerful or romantic when you read them on paper.