| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Jeff Ayeroff, 'Hey Ya', & skipping zero. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Sunday, 31 October 2010 12:29 |
 PART IX l PART X Jeff Ayeroff, 'Hey Ya', and skipping zero... GERARD WAY: Jeff Ayeroff who, he used to be the chief art director and he's like a legend in the business, he came by to hear the stuff. 'Cause whenever we'd finish a project, I like him to kind of see the art, 'cause he kind of help[ed] me with Ellen Wakayama start the whole process of being an artist with the records. And so, he's the guy that said, your drawing needs to be the cover of Three Cheers. And so, it's always important for me to get his opinion. And then he heard 'Na Na Na' and he said, I just see a big graffitied wall and I see 'Na Na Na' a million times. And he goes: I think you should also use that many Na Na's in the song. I think that should be the full title. He had done this record with Fiona Apple - and Fiona Apple, one of her singles had a title that was apparently a paragraph long, and he said he'd always loved that about her that she did that. And, so actually I don't think there's enough Na Na's yet. When the final CD comes out, it might have like a dozen more or maybe even more than that. But 'Na Na Na' is the song that launched it. It was the first laser bolt fired out of the ray gun. And it's the momentum that propelled us into recording another song and another song and another song. And the notion of even just calling the song Na Na is very much to me a part of the new, which is to say it's not the title of the record. In fact, it's not even a chorus lyric hook. It's, and it is, oddly, but it's so base and human and dumb. Like I kind of miss that about rock and roll. I miss the, that Ramones-iness to it where it's like, we're gonna take a dumb phrase like gabba and make that something important. Or even 'Hey Ya'. That's what's so great about 'Hey Ya'. Like, it's actually a next level song, 'Hey Ya', 'cause it's so base and dumb and human. And in the lyrics, in a weird way, they've introduced you Battery City. It talked about, kind of, the abuse of me and the band. Like, it's kind of just like a snapshot and it's a lot of truth, it's almost all truth and it's all really related to something that was either going in our lives or how I feel about the world right now. And, but I know, I've talked [a] bunch about that song [now] but [if] anybody else wants to... FRANK IERO: No, I totally agree. I mean, that song, more than the other, feels like... like a prologue to what you're about to experience. And just when that thing kicks in, it's always just been very visceral. RAY TORO: Yeah. FRANK: You know? I think that song started at 90, got to 100. Like, it didn't start to zero and just started in 90. GERARD: Totally. 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. |
