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Come on, shape shift with me! What have you got to lose? ✯ red - they ✯ should probably have an mcr sideblog, but I’ve gotten this far

I've literally never read any of this segment Gerard Way wrote (?) for Rolling Stone about Queen before?? lowkey got jump scared by his name while reading this article /pos

My dad was a mechanic. He worked on a lot of bottom-of-the-rung cars that didn't have cassette decks. But they had 8-tracks. Somebody left an 8-track tape of Queen's Greatest Hits in a car — the one where they're wearing leather jackets on the cover, and Freddie's got the mustache. I loved it immediately, and I came to emulate Freddie both as a child and as an adult.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is arguably the greatest song ever written. I'm sure people told them it was too long or had too many movements. But then it came out and just took hold of the world. When you're in a band and you find something that breaks every rule, it gives you creative hope. And Queen were always trying something new; none of their hit songs were paint-by-numbers.
When My Chemical Romance were making The Black Parade, we watched tons of documentary footage about A Night at the Opera, Queen's best album. We used Brian May amps and wrote songs with different movements. But we didn't try to make another "Bohemian Rhapsody." Whenever someone tries to do that, they fail.
I love the way Freddie performed. He would strike amazing poses; maybe he practiced them in front of a mirror, but he wasn't pretending to be somebody else. That was him telling the world, "This is who I am." I remember when the surviving members of Queen were looking for a singer a few years ago, I was like, "I would love to try it." Freddie's songs are just so much fun to sing, and he had such stamina. I would definitely have to quit smoking to be able to do what he did.
Queen fell in and out of being cool, maybe because they were so sincere. Rock music is all about being phony sometimes. And they weren't. They were obviously so psyched to be doing what they were doing.
They had a polarizing quality. I heard a story — maybe apocryphal — that Queen played a festival and got booed off the stage. Freddie vowed they would return as the biggest band in the world. And they did. When we played the Reading and Leeds festivals, we had to follow Slayer, and got bottles of piss thrown at us. I thought, "If we ever come back here, we're gonna headline it." I've always held on to the same dreams as Freddie.
Anonymous asked:

i remember reading somewhere that ray and gerard met at an iron maiden show, is that true? do you have any details about it? either way i love your blog!!

it wasn't the first time they met but there was a significant one! gerard and mikey first saw him at a rodney's show (ray's high school punk band) and were blown away by his weird and wonderful guitar playing (they even said they knew straight away that's the guy they'd want on guitar if they were in a band 🥲), and gerard also attended art school with the singer of the rodneys, shawn dillon, who's the one who properly introduced them. then in this interview gerard mentions he and ray reconnected when they went to an iron maiden show at msg together and beautiful sophia @sendmyresignation crunched some numbers in their amazing mcr+metal essay and it seems it's pretty likely that would have been around a year before mcr was formed. i assume that's what led ray to joining gerard's band nancy drew on bass (mentioned a couple of places including lotms) too? and then a few months before mcr formed ray also wrote the music for the song in gerard's breakfast monkey animatic!

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anyways if/when your most favoritest blorbos get cancelled or don’t come back in the fall when they’re scheduled remember that it’s because the people who put their time and love into making them are fighting for fair compensation to keep doing that 

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Say His Name: Jordan Neely was a houseless community member who was publicly lynched on a NYC subway. The fear mongering of our apartheid state has emboldened everyday people to act as state-sanctioned enforcers and agents of empire.

finished this project ive been working on- a lyric booklet for the black parade inspired by illuminated medieval manuscripts! i think a lot about how the album was inspired by medieval cycle plays and always thought it would be fun to do something with that aesthetic. you can read it here!

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