| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - what 'The Kids From Yesterday' means. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Saturday, 13 November 2010 22:58 |
 PART XXII l PART XXIII What 'The Kids From Yesterday' means... GERARD WAY: And that was... like, it's cool to step in a new territory lyrically. It's very rewarding. You're like: oh, my God. I came up with a new idea. And I was thinking, all right, for 'The Kids From Yesterday' - what does that mean? Obviously, it means we're the adults today. And that song was so important to finish because I had to accept that I had grown up, kind of, on my own terms. And having a child makes you question - are you growing up or are you growing up the right way - and what's best for your child to grow up the right way, which is how you want to? 'Cause I knew that when the band started, it was just like we were those kids on the chain-link fence yelling. And even the sample in there that Jamie Muhoberac - who did all the keys on the record - it's a sample from him at 12 or 10 [years old]. And his friends yelling into a little tape recorder and we sampled that and just ran it. And so the yelling through the song is just that. It's, to me, the most magical and super... it's scratched a little... because it's stuff that we never really got to do. MIKEY WAY: Yeah, it's like what I love better, I mean, when I hear this is, it's like that song, it's a self-reflection. I mean, you just look back and just, you know, be happy about everything you have and everyone around you. FRANK IERO: That was the last one that we finish[ed] with the record. GERARD: Yeah. It was awesome too 'cause I think at that time you had gone home to be with your wife - 'cause he was expecting kids and it was a really crazy time. FRANK: Like the next week, my daughter was born. GERARD: Yeah, like the week after, and it was amazing though because I remember what Frank had said - once he had heard the song he goes: wow. It sounds like as if I was there. He's like: I wouldn’t change anything on this. Which was super crazy 'cause we obviously all have opinions about what we make. And I guess that's why it's everybody's favourite 'cause it's the one thing we were like: oh yeah, I wouldn't change anything in this. This is really pure, you know? And it really helped me feel a completion to the album. 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. |
