| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Drowning out bad noise, Holi festival influences, & belief in luck. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Thursday, 11 November 2010 10:14 |
 PART XX l PART XXI Drowning out bad noise, Holi festival influences, and belief in luck... GERARD WAY: Yeah. I love that song. It's the one song where Rob really challenged me to dig deep personally. He's like, a lot of these records are of things your, you know, your views and your opinions of the world... I think it's time we give the audience one about you or your personal life. And it doesn't have to be anything bad from your personal life. In fact, I would prefer if it was something nice. So it's definitely about the Summer that we spent on Projekt Rev[olution] and meeting Lindsey [Ann Way nee Ballato]. And it's also about, in a relative sense, like being a kid and turning your headphones up to drown out maybe some of the bad noise. And then, kind of, meeting the people that make you not have to do that anymore and you could take them off, which is, you know? I think when you find that perfect person, they make the noise go away, which is really great - and that's kind of one of the ideas I want to get across in that song. GERARD [continued]: I become really interested because of the colourful nature of the record. I become very interested in the [Hindu] Holi festival in India. And I had seen all these amazing photos of the powder and the colours and everything. And I felt that that festival, even though I didn't know really what it meant, I could read about it but I still didn't know. I felt very relative to what was going on. And so, I would go on YouTube and try to find clips of just anything going on at Holi festival. And there's this one where there were some street performers just playing drums. And then not exactly like them, but the drums made me feel a kind of groove in my head. And then, again, much like 'SING', I wanted those drums. So then we kind of, we made those drums happen. And, again, it just built. That was a strobe light song as well. But I think I did vocals in pitch blackness with the strobe on. And originally that song had like four different vocal tracks going on at once, so we tried to retain that as much as possible. A lot of the original takes in there. That actually goes for a lot of songs in the record. RAY TORO: Yeah. GERARD: But I love that song. So in essence, it ends up being about God, the caste system, religion, kind of keeping a group of people down, maybe sometimes existing solely for that reason. It's about, the belief of luck, in luck or the lack thereof or God - which I think is an important thing to discuss. And that's a super badass, so... 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)' and the new single 'SING'. Find out how you could win signed My Chemical Romance posterboards at our ART IS THE WEAPON event HERE. View photos from our advance album listening party HERE. |
