MCR videos #2

Here we ago again! As promised, we will now explore my favorite album, "The Black Parade."

The videos from "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" were so beloved that the band reserved a significantly bigger budget for videos from "The Black Parade." The boys filmed five videos this album. The album, as a whole, was about overcoming depression. The videos are

"The Black Parade"

"I Don't Love You"

"Teenagers"

"Famous Last Words"

&

"Blood" 

"The Black Parade" is the most famous MCR song of all time, and therefore the video is MCR's most famous video ever. The song is about depressed and hurting people banding together to over come the pain. The video depicts this through the beautiful imagery of a marching band in a parade led by MCR. As MCR marches a long, more and more, "misfits" and "outcasts" join the parade. THis parade became the theme for the cd. 

"I Don't Love You" is about moving on after a breakup. The video is a little more abstract with a man and a woman who look like a doll and a statue separate. After the statue leaves, the dolls stares into the camera and cries.

"Teenagers" is about social anxiety. The song raised a lot of controversy as it, basically, tells teenagers to kill the teenagers who cause their pain. However, the video clarifies at the end that the song is meant to be a healthy expression of the pain that bullying and society anxiety causes. The videos merely shows the band performing at a high school while cheerleaders dance around them with gas masks.

"Famous Last Words" is about having confidence in yourself and not being afraid to live. The video shows the band performing the band in none other that the costumes from the black parade with lots of fire. (MCR TRIVIA: one of the boys accidently caught on fire while filming this video and almost lost his leg.)

"Blood" is a bonus track and kind of an inside joke with the fandom, and the video is the exact same.

MCR carried the marching band theme over into their tour where they wore the costume to (almost) every show.

My next post is the most important as we will be discussing the importance of the comic/movie/videos/album/tour for "Danger Days!"