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Feelings about the breakup?
I took it pretty bad. It just didn't seem fair that they would end like that, with no warning and barely a explanation, but I'm okay with it now, I guess. Although there wont be any new music coming out, I don't need anything new. The newer stuff I loved, but their old piercing heart stopping stuff is what saved me and now that the band has gone its separate ways, I've really begun to appreciate their legacy all the more. "I'm not okay" made me realize that it was okay to be a freak and I think that was the first time in my life I had ever viewed myself as anything but pathetic. My Chemical Romance made me except who I was, even when others didn't. I will never forget that and i don't doubt that their music will always be there for me when I need it. The band may be done but MCR is far from gone and never will be.
I know people are gonna hate me for this but here goes... I discovered MCR around 2011 and I'd heard Na Na and thought it was better than lots of shit I had recently heard. I started from the beginning. I listened to bullets and thought it was amazing, Three cheers saved me from a lot of shit and I mean Gerard was really hot then not like that has anything to do with this but he was. I listened to black parade and apart from a few okay songs, it just started to go downhill there. Then Danger Days. I am not a fan of danger days at all. I think the killjoy thing is epic but apart from Na Na and sing, everything just went all poppy and they had become what a lot of music at that time was becoming and it crushed me. I feel like they ended in 2010. But they were looking up. Conventional Weapons was an upturn but they still weren't the MCR I loved. The break up was depressing. I was going through a lot of shit when they broke up and I mean like serious family issues. But when Gerard Way made millions. I just fell in love with it. When Frank made his songs I fell in love with them. MCR weren't MCR when they broke up. Even their personalities had changed *cough* *cough* Mikey *cough* *cough*. But MCR never died. And who knows, maybe they needed this breakup to patch things up.
I was completely shattered...Felt like my world was ending. I was so excited for seeing them live and it was the only thing I was looking forward to, and then I couldn't meet my heroes and I cried a lot. It doesn't bother me so much anymore, but occasionally I get really sad about it.;-;
@VanyaHargreeves
inr I don't know what I'm talking about
@TickTock
that was beautiful you bring tears to my eyes
@Skyethewaffleway
i understand... you guys won't believe this but I Don't Love You is actually my least favorite MCR song. but yeah this shit can be hzrd and fuck I am not good at this 'responding to people' on forums at all
@XOXOg
well itll be okay you can of course stiil see and meet them seperatly and understand that its not the same but its the best we can do. tbh ive seen them live twice. but both times i went i was really a fan i just went because my mom wanted someone to go with. the first time i was seven. it was wttbp era so they did the whole album then did other song but they scared back then so i was terrified. the second time i went i was twelve and the only songs i can remember them doing was nanana and teenagers so i don't really feel like i got to really see them and enjoy myself but that's just my story.....
@That Person You Dont Kno I never got to see them live, but I saw A7X live as my first concert and that was FABULOUS
@Skyethewaffleway
i think the main reason they ended was their families. Remember Gerard's daughter is like 4. Franks kids are about 4 and well miles is 1 or 2 and Ray's kid just turned 1. It just wouldn't be fair for them to miss this important part of their kids lives unno. But as you said...MCR never died. The concept, the way they changed...it's forever.
I have such a long story about this... my brothers listened to them from the very beginning and when I was six, I remember hearing mama, wttbp, and helena. and that's all I remembered. I would ocassionally listen to one of those songs on youtube throughout the years, but I never got into them. it actually wasn't until this previous summer that I really discovered them, and of course I also found out that they were over and that didn't hit me until a little into the school year and it made me depressed and angry that they would do that. I really wished that I had become more attached like this earlier, so that I could have had the experience with them. so I'm sort of mad at myself and at them even though I do understand why they had to break up. sorry, for making that so long.
It didnt affect me badly at the start, because I started really getting into them after they broke up. But I think it was the stories that everyone had and the pain they were going through that really got to me. A month into getting into MCR, it hit me that this band truly wasn't ever gonna be around saving lives and performing, and fuck if that didnt hurt like a bitch I don't know what would. My best friend loved them from start to finish and it absolutely tore a hole into her heart. I still hold out hope that they'll get together again, I give it 2 years. Blink and Fall Out Boy did after all c:
The first few weeks were really hard. I was pretty much dead on the inside. Killjoys didn't exactly help me with my grief, and neither did May Death Never Stop You, but I found that writing fan fiction helped a little. I've also been getting into other bands- This Good Robot, the Hives, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, and Muse, just to name a few. The pain's still there, but it's not as bad as I thought it'd be... I know that it's not the end of the world.
The guys are moving on, too- Frank's got projects he's working on, Gee's working on TUA, Ray's got a few projects of his own, and Mikey's in a new band (and the fact that his lips are sealed about the matter is making me go crazy). I guess what I'm trying to say is that they're not completely gone... and who knows... they might come back in a few years.
Well, I'm a tattoo artist and I was finishing up an awesome tattoo for one of my regular clients when she started to curse. She was on her phone and I couldn't help but to ask what was wrong as I cleaned all the stray ink off her tattoo. She looked up to me with tears in her eyes and told me MCR had broken up. I literally just sat there with a poker face for about five minutes as I cleaned up my station and made sure her tattoo was amazing as I promised and once that was done, I burst into tears. We held each other for a half an hour just sobbing over how much we were goin to miss them.
Even tho in still heartbroken about the breakup, I understand. They all have families now that they want to be there for. They have kids they new to see grow up. Maybe when their kids have grown they'll come back and show the world what real music is again.
The night I found out was September 2013 (I know, I was really fucking late..) I decided to type in "My Chemical Romance" into the Google search bar and just mess around with what popped up. I found a website, not really sure what it was called, I think it was the official website (like for merch, and tour talk, etc.) And there was a forum like post things. The last one posted was March 2013 reading something like the band broke up. I stared at the screen for idk how long. I felt like my heart was gone. I had no emotion left what so ever. 20 minutes of poker face later I broke down into tears. I never got to see them in concert. I used to tell my friends and family that I would do almost anything to get concert tickets, which will probably never happen again (It'll happen when the apocalypse is about to start.. Just you watch..) That night I listened to "Welcome to the Black Parade". Hearing the "We'll carry on!" part made me cry even more. They saved me. Made me feel like I had a place. A wise man once said "This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, motherfucker." :) I'm kidding. He said "My Chemical Romance is done, but it can't never die." I can go on and on about his quotes but, that one means a lot. Their memory will always be there.
I'd always promised myself that I'd meet them one day. Maybe by chance, fate, choice, or any given apocalypse. After My Chem ended, I felt that that time was cut short by years, I felt that now the time was ending to tell them how much they changed me and my views on the world, and, infatuatedly, death. It took me up until very recently to realise that Gerard, Ray, Mikey, and Frank themselves are not dead, but rather they have moved on from a chapter of their lives, one that was so gallantly yet proudly sold to be the legend of My Chemical Romance.
With that said, I believe that we will carry on as a fandom. I'm not saying that I should just go about saying that whoever cries over the end of My Chem is wrong, because I feel that way too. I miss them too, and I do sometimes cry when their songs come on my playlist shuffle.
But I don't believe the world stops when My Chemical Romance does. Gerard has comics, and as he mentioned in an interview on the 31st of January, he's planning on releasing some legit solo material. Frank's gone solo, and most recently has collaborated with his children on a song entitled 'B.F.F.' Mikey might have formed a new band. As for Ray, not many people know, but whatever he's doing I wish him well.
I wish all of them well from the strong and everlasting MCRmy.
I've know about MCR since I was about ten so roughly 2010 and my first song was Na Na Na I just remember watching the music video and instantly falling in love with them and quarantining all the other music videos. About a year later I had kind of forgotten about them. I remember about 8 or 9 months before the breakup happened (13 years old) I had really gotten back into punk music again as I had been experimenting with other genres and trying to branch out when I found MCR again, so I freaked out obviously and fell in love all over again. About a month before the breakup I had decided I was going to go to the next tour no matter what, despite the fact that I would have to drive about 10 hours and spend 600 to get to Portland which is the closest venue to me they would play at. On March 22nd I remember it was pretty normal for me having a general feeling of sadness and just trying to get by so I searched the internet to check out some MCR March I'd been eyeing, thats when I found out. I was completely crushed I went to Youtube and began to listen all of the MCR stuff and the song I heard was The Light Behind Your Eyes. I listened to it and just started to cry it felt so personal like Gerard was singing directly to me and they were all there with me telling me I'd be okay. I've never had the same feeling listening to it again. Needless to say I went downhill from there. I started to self harm become even more depressed than normal and was soon sent to Therapy and after two sessions was promptly checked into a mental hospital for.nine days for a suicide attempt. Im now attempting to recover along with my best friend and fellow MCR fan I met in the hospital and honestly MCR has and continues to help me get through everyday life. Im still very upset about the breakup because I will never be able to see them live and I'm not sure ill ever be okay or completely understand it but I'll try to accept it.
Suicidal, sad, depressed, lost, killed, murdered, died, pain, this sounds extremely weird but I feel like MCR were my best friends! Some one help me, I'm a mess. xoxo
I'm pretty bummed. I've listened to them since the Revenge days but was never really a huge fan till I found out about the breakup. Which caused me to go into a cave of their music and never come out which leads to the mess I am now. The only times I was going to see them live they bailed last minute due to throat issues or drummer issues? It happened twice I think. So I never got to see them live which sucks but. Maybe they'll get back together. I mean, "fake your own death" seems like an obvious metaphor. So yeah, I guess I'm just holding onto hope for now.
Honestly, it felt awful. You know that feeling when you know something is going to happen either way? That was the way I felt. When they released their final song, I couldn't bring myself to listen to it... I had to wait a few days to prepare for the big punch. I had been dying to hear what they had to say, as their final goodbye, but when I heard the words, I almost cried. Simple words don't seem to cut it. The feeling was similar to that of when a loved one dies. Like you're just waiting for someone to tell you it was all a joke. I hope that they do mean to come back, but the chances seem slim to none. They releases a Greatest Hits album for a reason. Personally, I think the whole 'Fake Your Death' metaphor isn't that they'll come back, but that they'll live on and leave the past behind. Think about it, when people fake their death, they try and leave things behind and begin a new chapter in their life.
yeah I know this is a hard one but I just had to know.
I was devastated. I was already having a terrible day I had gotten caught self harming and it just wasn't my day. When I found out I just wanted to die and start over like I had never discovered them. It hurt so bad. I have to say it was the second worst break up I ever went through and yeah. But what were your thoughts/feelings about it?
12/15/13