| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - 'Jet-Star And The Kobra Kid' derived from 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid' name-sake. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Saturday, 06 November 2010 23:31 |
 PART XV l PART XVI 'Jet-Star And The Kobra Kid' derived from 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid' name-sake... GERARD WAY: And lyrically there's a lot of keystones in that song, too, what I'm trying to say. There's a real - Rob pointed it out - there's a real vendetta in this song. So you don't really get to hear dance or club music like that, that has an actual purpose or a vendetta. It's just talking about, a relationship or something else abstract. But yeah, it is like I'm clearly pissed off about something and... but it's great. And I got, I'm happy about being pissed I guess, but yeah, that song is... awesome. MIKEY WAY: Yeah, I think those lyrics are super, like something more powerful than... RAY TORO: That's one song that came from the previous sessions like 'Bulletproof Heart'. It was a song that always stuck with us. I think when we started thinking about redoing that, we had written, I think maybe like five or six. It was a little bit later. That song was interesting because when we tried to re-approach it, I had seen it like: okay, we do it the way we did it before, because it’s just a great big rock song. You can't beat that. And Rob the whole time was like: well, you guys have done that before. You know, everybody has done like the eighth note chugging. We got to find a way to make it new. I think it was maybe Dan, one of the assistant engineers. He had worked on some drum loops and kind of really, kind of almost made that song into a dance track. You know, it was cool 'cause I was part of that experimentation, but, I remember when I heard that version, I almost put my fist to the screen. I was so bummed... GERARD: Yeah. RAY: ...'cause I was like, this isn't the song. And, I think we, just from talking about it and working on it, we decided to really make a hybrid and use some electronics and some of those elements along with making that chorus and those sections as big of a rock moment as you can. And I think, the new version ended up blowing away the old one, because you really had everything, and there's a lot invention, a lot of creativity, to make that song work. And that song was definitely a journey to get right. FRANK IERO: Absolutely, yeah. GERARD: Jet-Star And The Kobra Kid - well, basically the names of Ray's gun and Mike's gun - and then they started to feel like characters. And I know we're not a telling a story, but it just, and that actually made it more a point to put those two weird names. I wanted something that sounds like 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid', as two characters getting killed. And that's it. I thought that was just kind of fun and abstract and stuff. And then, Rob was really pushing for the whole traffic report thing. He really like... he like really... he would call the track, I think, Route Guano traffic report or something. 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. |
