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nonegenderleftpain · 2 years
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To all the new, young MCR fans out there who are just finding them during this tour - you will never know what it was like to be a fan back before and during the hiatus.
And that's a good thing.
I have been following My Chemical Romance since I was ten years old. MCR was the band that the freaks liked. The band that young queer kids were called fags and dykes for liking. Someone once called them the "poster child for suicidal depression," and they aren't wrong. We watched the band struggle with drugs and drinking and idolized how much they were able to do while blackout on tour, because if they could do something so powerful at such a disadvantage, then maybe we could, too. We watched the popularization of "guyliner," because having a term for men wearing makeup could make it an ironic fashion statement instead of a deliberate choice that would get you left bloody and unconscious on the floor of a gas station bathroom. We watched these guys destroy themselves, and we saw ourselves in them because we were destroyed, too. We wanted to believe that we could be just as important, no matter how broken we were, and we found shared experiences at concerts and cafeterias and skate parks and libraries, with other fucked up kids that wanted to listen to the guys that didn't care if people called them gay. The guys that made out on stage to the jeers of thousands of people and got bottles of piss thrown at them but kept doing it anyway. The guys that played with gender and sexuality and everything on the fringes of acceptability, in their lyrics and their performance and the way they treated each other.
This was important. It was life-saving. It provided a comparatively safe space in an unsafe cultural environment for the freaks to find comfort in. It was also hugely and dangerously unhealthy.
I've talked at length to my friends about how healing and lifechanging this tour has been for me, and I want to illuminate that for these young fans that are falling in love with MCR like I did when I was their age. When we were kids, most of our heroes were already dead. They died young, had tragic lives, and we saw ourselves in them. I fully believed MCR would end up the same way. It would have been so easy to be martyrs - to die young and beautiful. Gerard said it himself, back in the day, that MCR was destined to die young in a car crash and stay beautiful forever, and I think he truly believed that.
So they broke up. And, like a miracle, things started to change. They got clean. Got married. Had kids. Not just Gee, but the lot of them. They aged out of the 27 club, and then out of their 30s, and they only seemed to continue to thrive. Today, in 2022, Gerard Way is 45 years old. He has wrinkles. He has a daughter who is older now than I was when she was born. And they are touring again.
The cultural change from when I was a teenager to now, when you guys are, is monumental. It's insane. It's fantastic. Back in the day, Gerard made some occasional comments about playing with gender presentation (that all us trans people, including those of us that didn't even know yet, hunted down and cherished and kept in our chests for safekeeping), but the idea of doing something so flagrant as headlining Riot Fest in a dress was ludicrous. It would have gotten him booed (still did, even now). It could have gotten him killed. The fact that Gerard Way has stepped on stage three separate times this tour in a dress (so far! it's not over!) is such an incredible, monumental change from when I was a kid and I am so, so happy for you to be experiencing it as kids.
I had a cry about this at a P!ATD concert in 2018, after seeing preteens running down the halls in pride flags, and I feel even more strongly about it now than I did then. That you're able to talk openly about Gerard's gender performance without fear, that you're able to hear them go by he/they pronouns, that you're able to interact with other young fans in the wake of MCR's revival in a safe environment and take in the messages that are at the core of what they stand for? These are beautiful fucking things.
You can't know what it was like, growing up with MCR back in the day. But you get to know what it's like to grow up with them now. Cherish that. In Detroit, Gerard told us to take our meds, and reminded us that we made it. They made it. They fought through the hard parts, fought the demons, and came out the other side better for it. As you watch them put those demons to rest from concert to concert, know that there are older fans cheering you on, so fucking happy to see you sharing this experience with us, and so excited to see what way this changes you. We know it changed us.
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freakbleeds · 8 months
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People who think Taylor Swift writes good breakup music need to listen to Joan Baez. You haven't seen shade thrown until you hear the most sarcastic covers in the world of a Bob Dylan song that makes you want to eat his heart in the marketplace etc.
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midnightportals · 2 months
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Sometimes I think I spend too much money on concerts & band merch, but then I remember I could be buying diapers and it’s suddenly not that much money.
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candidltd · 6 months
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booperbeanv3 · 8 months
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mashup of karkalicious + strider be mine + wannabe thx to the ppl who voted such
pls enjoy. first time doin something like this so i'm too embarrassed to play it back
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raindrop-underscore · 10 months
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the way Madeleine Hyland and Joey Batey subtly switch who's singing harmony and who's singing the melody at the end of Wild Blue Yonder is like???? amazing???
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yurigalactica · 8 months
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honestly my favorite thing about los campesinos as a whole is how each song feels so similar and familiar, and yet, each song is so distinct from the others and invokes such a hyper-specific emotion. like to tundra? the melancholy acceptance of our own mortality. coda: a burn scar in the shape of the sooner state? how you feel when you're crying on the floor of your shower at 1am with the lights turned off. the time before the last time? sobbing as you drive home in the pouring rain, but make it cinematic. hung empty? the feeling of exploring a brand new place, a new chapter of life, and the excitement coupled with creeping unease that comes with it. she crows (documented minor emotional breakdown #4)? sitting in a dimly lit diner far later at night than anyone should be out, reflecting on your life and everything that brought you to this moment, looking back on all of your successes and failures and everyone who's loved you and hated you and everything in between—and accepting them all and being proud of how much you've grown and how far you've come. we are beautiful, we are doomed? the feeling of being a teenager, of being rebellious, of doing all the things you're told you shouldn't do just because it's finally hit you just how fleeting life is and how badly you want to live when it feels like you're on the brink of dying. this is a flag. there is no wind? the very essence of apathy, of feeling trapped in your own life, of wanting to break free and be undeniably yourself but feeling like that's downright impossible. glue me? the feeling of being held in the arms of your dearest love, the feeling of being surrounded by something safe, something familiar, something that feels like home.
holy fuck i love this band
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cyb3r-g0thic · 8 months
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"my synonym girl" or whatever peter steele said
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clouds-of-wings · 1 year
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oranglesswrld · 19 days
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what does everyone think of my new playlist
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magz · 3 months
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Humble Bundle have deal for legal FL Studio Basic version, plugins, n samples.
(Read humble bundle details carefully in link. Loops, samples, plugins, 20% off FL Studio coupon.)
$35usd n get everything in bundle. Deal end December 28, 2023.
FreeCodeCamp also make tutorials for " music production with FL Studio" :
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cyberr-v0id · 4 months
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I should practice flute
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rustandruin · 10 months
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Absolutely losing my mind at the use of Buddy Holly’s “Everyday” in the Good Omens season 2 trailer.
We went from the season 1 trailer using Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend” and ending on the line you’re my best friend as Aziraphale and Crowley slowly realise that this is more than a friendship or an alliance as they have been telling themselves all these years, to the season 2 trailer last line being love like yours will surely come my way.
Because this is now a bonafide relationship. They picked each other. They are their own side, Heaven and Hell and Armageddon and naked former angel bosses turning up on their doorstep with no memory of who they are be damned.
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soapcan18 · 6 months
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MY PALMS AND FINGERS STILL REEK WITH GASOLINE FROM THROWING FUEL TO THE FIRE OF THAT GRECO-ROMAN DREAM PURIFY THE HOLY ROCK TO MELT THE GILDED SEAMS IT DONT BRING ME RELIEF NO IT DON’T BRING ME NOTHINGGG
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🐐 ~ Kiss the Go-Goat ~ 🐐 (Ghost)
(Credit if you use please!) (ko-fi)
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booperbeanv3 · 26 days
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booperbeanv3 -「おちゃめ機能」 FUKKARKETA 【HD.256k.Kara】
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