#ray toro

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So what if we all explode then what……

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im going to end it all

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THE SHARPEST LIVES: Ray Toro smiling at the crowd in Las Vegas [WWWY, 10.20.24]

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I could never recreate the lettering I managed to dream up for this

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you’re jokingggggg

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When We Were Young Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada 10.19.2024

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Photos by Gaby Ravy for Alt Press

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The wwwy performance is so genius because in 2022 they took the concept of “when we were young” and used it to critique nostalgia culture and never pursuing new concepts in music. This time, though, I feel like Gerard went so much deeper with that concept and really looked at where he was mentally during the writing of the black parade, when he was young. Not only is that shown in the costume but in the entire set as well. The serenity prayer shows his struggles at the time with sobriety, both with being sober and remaining sober. The talk about knives before sleep I think really embodies the calculated, primal chaos lurking beneath the entire album but especially that song. Just the general rawness and emotion of the performance feels like they are embodying the mindset that they were in when making the album. Even the arrangement of cancer being played like it was originally instead of the piano version they had been playing for years serves as a call back to when the album was originally written. The costume is genius because it’s barely even a costume, just a return to that era in his life. This performance essentially did exactly what the 2022 performance did- it made the audience uncomfortable in a way that forced them/us to look at ourselves and also where the music we enjoy stems from. It makes us reexamine the entire album and how we listen to it. I don’t think I can ever experience the black parade the same way again. Absolutely genius performance.

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i’m unwell

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Reasons to Believe We Are So Fucking Back:

New Gerard Hair Era (could be indicative of something new coming)

Hearing songs that haven’t been formed since 2007. Like. That’s so big.

The set + lighting design for My Chem’s set at WWWY Fest was SO COOL. Production design nerds REJOICE this was brilliant

Speaking of which, the spider during TIHID? You know what spiders do?? They eat flies man.

You see where I’m going with this?? Swarm tour was all about rot and flies and physical sets and costuming. They’re killing the swarm and eating it. They have these mesmerising projections in lieu of these 3D sets and there’s no costume. It’s performance uniform, it’s funeral blacks.

Because as cool as it would’ve been to see Black Parade zombies or some femme reimagining, MCR just is not the band to cash in on nostalgia bait. It’s a TBP memorial, a commemoration whatever.

So they’re killing the Swarm and playing their little service for TBP (seriously the church organ before I Don’t Love You. This is a funeral), whilst still being artistically experimental and VERY, VERY SECRETIVE, because My Chem as a band is always growing and changing and doing things unexpectedly.

“It’s so over it feels so final-“ Gerard has been very vocal about his wishes to continue touring and performing!!! There is still hope!!!

In the meantime we should celebrate all of the awesome stuff My Chem just did and have done. They’re just so cool. And knowing this band, they’ll definitely drop something Big when we least expect it.

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you dont understand the significance of him smiling with his teeth in the year 2024, like to me this is the best thing to ever exist

ive been waiting for this and ive been talking about this for months

M O N T H S

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Ray Toro at WWWY Festival taken by Nikki Phillips [10.19.24]

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and they were co-guitarists 😭😭😭😭