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thursdaybandcomments · 8 months

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#song: understanding in a car crash #source: youtube

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smfstump · 7 months

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#understanding in a car crash #thursday #this song makes me fucking feral #THE TIME IT TAKES THE TIME IT TAKES TO LET GO!!!!#Spotify

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transgeoffrickly · 8 months

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tell me your favorite mcr song and your favorite thursday song. let me find some Connections.

#4 me. my fave mcr song is bury me in black. and my favorite thursday song is understanding in a car crash sorry 4 sound like a poser #i meant sounding like a poser but that tag is too long to edit #e.txt #thursday #thursday band #mcr #my chemical romance #my ask game #<- fucked up tagging. it is for my personal reference

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raytorosaurus · 1 year

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sometimes u gotta take a step back. and listen to understanding in a car crash as if it's the first time you're hearing it. to momentarily vaporise ur brain inside its skull.

#vivid memory of the first time i heard 'i don't want to feel this way forever' & was like. oh dear this band is going to become a Problem.#the song is CALLED. UNDERSTANDING. IN A CAR CRASH. LIIIIIIIKE.#*

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torosdottir · 7 days

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theres a guy at my work called anthony g******* and we all have little nametags on our jackets and every time i walk past him n see his a part of my brain lights up like "oh! just like my friend anthony who sings songs!! yay!!! 😁" but i cant tell him this bc he has no idea who the fuck that is :(

#he made the mistake of asking me what i was singing to myself a couple of weeks ago (understanding in a car crash thursday)#and i totally dumped like the entire thursday/mcr backstory on him immediately 💀#pleaaaase ask again soon i have to tell u about my friend anthony who has a similar name to u and sings songs :)

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walkerrenee · 21 days

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you show me:

understanding!

patience and pleasure!!

time and attention!!!

love without measure!!!!

love without measure!!!!!

#this song makes me want to crash my car into a streetlamp <3 #me when?#understanding when? patience and pleasure when? time and attention when? LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE WHEN?#WHEN ADRIANNE WHEN!!!??#god.#mmmm anyways... (:#pj talks #music #adrianne lenker #about #Spotify

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thebirdandhersong · 10 months

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history of man and you're losing me are sisters btw. they're holding hands and glaring at the same thing with tears in their eyes

#songbird again #it's about the 'he doesn't understand' and 'i know my pain is such an imposition'#and the acknowledgement that the car is speeding towards an inevitable crash #and also that this WAS a good thing! i DID love you! i did my best to make it work!#i can mourn this loss and mourn your inattentive love at the same time as acknowledge that it was precious and that you put aside something #that was precious to me when you should've cherished it!#anyway. top 2 songs that break my heart in this season tbh.

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rivertigo · 6 months

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WAHHHHHHHHHHHH

#the way I’m listening to this song…. the way if I ever get in a car crash again … oh trust and believe I will understand

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mossytrashcan · 7 months

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just got flashbacks to my mccafferty days. do you know how insane it was for my first major, close to home cancellation to include a theory that the main singer was long con faking being pansexual so he could like use slurs

#bro he was so fucking queer that I was able to vicariously live as a queer boy through him #bitch the music was fucking ass #but boy howdy did I feel like a dude #anyways i think it also had to do w him being transphobic #it was crazy like there was like a dissertation about it #none of you will understand this cuz my audience mostly comprises of “I love taylor swift” and “taylor swift is objectively bad”#which means one group wouldn’t of heard of it because mccafferty is like pretty bad #like car crash metal exploding in your ears nails on chalkboard bad #and the other group literally wouldn’t survive the experience of listening to legitimately bad music #and I want them to live #cuz sorry if you don’t like ts song writing I think “MY DAD WAS AN ALCHIE” would be like the wicked witch getting hit w water

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thursdaybandcomments · 8 months

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#source: youtube #song: understanding in a car crash (live)

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nightmommy · 2 months

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babygirl spotted

#thursday #geoff rickly #the last 4 songs of this show put me in the dirt fr #tomorrow i'll be you>jet black new year>cross out the eyes>understanding in a car crash #a sold out room counting down together and the pit absolutely exploding at CAN WE HAVE ONE LAST DANCE #exquisite

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amberdagger · 6 months

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shoutout to emo/alt/rock songs about car crashes i really like them because they remind me of the time i crashed my car (which was the most emo thing i ever did (i was listening to paramore at the time))

#understanding in a car crash by thursday #guardrail by bayside #if you know any more songs about car crashes send them to me

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twicethedreamshalfthelove · 8 months

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i have to stop going to emo book events because i have had to hear mcr in public two days in a row and if it happens tomorrow I will snap

#i was not ready to enter a bookstore and hear welcome to the black parade and i was also not ready for the fact that that would make #me tear up #at least today’s event was a mix of songs and they played the whole song (understanding in a car crash was next up)#yesterday they had like a 10 minute medley of various songs on revenge and THAT played on repeat #which was a lot in its own way #c.txt #I’m not going to a book event tomorrow…just wary

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smileymoth · 1 year

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Girls when YOURE THE ONLY ONE WHO WORE YOUR SEATBELT WE'RE THE ONLY ONES THAT CRIED CATASTROPHIC ACCIDENTS YOURE THE ONLY ONE THAT DIED SO KEEP MY CASKET CLOSED YOUR HEART BEATS UNDER THE FLOOR IT HAUNTS ME IN MY DREAMS

#i miss my dad so much #moth post #i know its abt a car crash bht it fucking felt like a car crash alright #it happened too quick to even process it #he was so tall and strong and never sick and so stoic and thats probably what killed him #he wouldnr have changed i wouldve still been afraid of his temper but at least i would still have mt dad #its so fucking unfair that grief jjst doesnt leave. i want it to be over its been over a year already .#now it hurts in the worst way now that youre gone its so wrong #girl who copes with song lyrics #tw parental death #why did it go to his brain. why did it have to go to his brain i dont understand ill never understand. why did it go to his brain.#he couldnt even talk he was barely concscious at the end of if

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abodyfarm · 2 years

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i am going to start listening to thursday

#ive known understanding in a car crash and no other songs #for WAY too long #so um. does that #shut up till

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cutesilyo · 6 months

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the thing i really like about just for once in nerdy prudes must die is that it's best iteration of the musical within a musical trope that has become characteristic of the hatchetfield musicals

like both show-stopping number and deck the halls (of northville high) are catchy songs from in-universe musicals that were very much written to have plots that suck

and show-stopping number was so well-beloved because it is, frankly, a hilarious scene that robert manion put 100% into

but i argue that only just for once is thematically relevant to its musical and fully emblematic of the wants and desires of the character singing it

because what is just for once, as a scene? it's ruth singing a song because she thinks she's got a chance of doing it better. it's ruth singing a song about a character who looks back on the mundane miseries of her lonely life and — at the last second — remembering who she used to be before the pain set in. it's ruth singing her version of cooler than i think i am and reflecting on how she is perceived and wondering what it takes to break away from it. it's ruth singing right after she says, "in my dreams, i'm the star of the show."

of all the losers that max jagerman victimizes, only ruth says who she'd like to become beyond that. where pete can't even admit to liking steph at gunpoint and richie doesn't ever get the chance to verbalize what he wants, ruth gets on the stage in the few minutes of break time and just for once, the spotlight is on her.

and the really crazy thing about just for once is — it has the "i'm not a loser" motif. possibly the most iconic and important motif of the whole musical, it's the motif that starts the opening number. and here it is, in the silly musical within a musical by the silly character who has — until this song — always served as comic relief.

in the climax of the song, just for once is no longer the song of a character from the barbecue monologues. it's ruth's. in those few seconds, it's her lamentation of the life that max jagerman forced on her.

but that's the thing about the "i'm not a loser" motif. the way it functions in the musical is as a harbinger for max's violence. the police at the beginning ask, "what the hell happened here?" and its the motif that answers. pete is the first character that sings the line and is immediately beaten up by max in the next scene. then richie sings it and max kills him in the same song. when ruth has the motif running as the crescendo to just for once, it sounds absolutely incredible... and it should come as no surprise when max appears shortly after.

(as a quick note: you can also hear the motif after max makes the car crash, then max appears two scenes later. you then hear the motif in the cooler than i think i am reprise and max also appears right after the song. it's like max is instantly summoned by any instance of the losers trying to shake off the role he placed on them — of trying to defy him.)

tl;dr: the inclusion of the "i'm not a loser" motif in just for once makes it the big lipped alligator moment that wasn't. like yeah, it accomplishes its goal in being the funny musical within a musical trope! the character acting makes it a funny song, and its a funny character performing it! but it also furthers our understanding of ruth AND of what the "i'm not a loser" really is: it's the characters trying to develop past being nerdy prudes and max doing everything in his power to prevent that.

and it does all that while being a banging musical tribute to stephen sondheim and, especially, his song the ladies who lunch. which in itself is a massive flex on jeff blim's part. what a brilliant song in a brilliant musical.

#npmd #nerdy prudes must die #starkid #hatchetfield #mine #i just love this song okay????#anyway i just want to say #nerdy prudes must die is on youtube!!! go watch it!!!!

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