| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Desert visions, new songs, & no rules. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Wednesday, 27 October 2010 23:43 |
 PART V l PART VI Desert visions, new songs, and no rules... GERARD WAY: I had gone in the desert with Lindsey [Ann Way nee Ballato], because we've been working so much we didn't even get to take our anniversary. So we had, like, two days in the desert is all we could do. And then, and it's like [an] epiphany, you know? And I always knew I wanted the record to be set in the desert and I have this kind of - like this fucking vision. I heard the song in my head, it was like a chant, it was "Na Na Na", it was the dumbest thing in the world. And, but I saw laser guns and I saw muscle cars and dirt and masks, and Draculoids and everything. And then, we went and just met up with Rob as a friend and talk[ed] about the situation we were in. And I kind of have this, I have this thing in my back pocket, 'cause I kind of... I kept mentioning it. I was like: I wrote a song. I think it's really amazing - but I didn't talk about it too much. And then I think when I felt safe and I felt that everybody in the band felt safe for the first time to be free with Rob, that's when I was like: let's just go do this really quick. And so, we did it and it was so obvious. We heard Na Na and we're like, to me it was like: all right, we have a track one now. Now, we have to start over. And it took a minute. We were four songs in before I think we all were fully like, that's, even I was afraid of doing that. It took... I think we then did 'Vampire Money' and then I think we did 'Planetary [Go!]'... all very different songs. So... FRANK IERO: Yeah. But that was the thing. I mean, once we met with Rob, you had that idea, and it was like: all right, well, what is this? Do we, is it a new record? Is this [the] start, like step one, again...[?] GERARD: Right. FRANK: ...or are we just inspired to write a couple of songs? And we just kept saying: all right, well, if the inspiration is there, why would you shut it off? Like, even if it's not on the record, whatever, if we have an idea and it can be great, you have to chase it. GERARD: And these crazy things started to happen, where you'd get one song, and then the next day you were so inspired, you'd have another. And then by the end of the evening, you're working on another. And that's really what happened on this record. Now, it was hard, but the band was truly alive and we took, there was no rules. 'Cause that last attempt had so many rules on it that the rules were gone. And that, to me, felt like: wait, we're really making a rock and roll album now 'cause there's no rules. Before, it [was] like, rock album[s] don't have rules. And that's what that last recording was. But it was just crazy momentum. It just kept going. And we didn't have like an agreement right, for a while. Like Rob and us, we were just recording... but we didn't know what we were doing. FRANK: We don't know what it was. <laughs> GERARD: Yeah. We didn't, we weren't calling it an album yet. He didn't know, he had other stuff on the books for him to go work on, but we just kept doing it 'cause it was so exciting. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE's new album 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' is released in New Zealand on November 22nd - features the lead-single 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'. Find out how you could win the chance to hear the new album eleven days before it hits stores HERE - as well as about our ART IS THE WEAPON event. |
