In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their 24th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This show was the first time the studio version of "The World is Ugly" was performed live. At this show, Gerard Way wore a custom made vintage cheerleader dress, and "I Bet it WAS YOU" was written on the drums. (🖤)
One thing that really strikes me about Gerard’s Return Tour outfits is like. Nashville is not a Sexy Cheerleader Costume. Detroit is not a Sexy Nurse Costume. They are of course both very sexy — get me talking more about the Detroit look and it will become clear that it makes me Deeply Unwell — but they’re not sexualized. The nurse uniform has its conservative below-the-knee hemline paired those white clogs, the cheerleader outfit has long sleeves and a high neckline and little white shorts underneath — it’s an actual athletic uniform, not a costume.
But Toronto 2? That’s just a sexy cat costume. There’s no getting around it. They went on stage in front of thousands of people in the most classic, prototypical Sexy Kitty Cat halloween costume. And they had a visible erection the entire time.
In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their 61st show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour (the last of the North America leg) at the Corona Capital festival in Mexico City, Mexico. At this show, Gerard Way wore a Joan of Arc inspired chain mail outfit, with a long red cape and a streak of fake blood painted on his chin and neck. "Muy feugo" [sic] was written on the drums. (🖤)
I’ve been watching a lot of videos of Bury Me in Black from this tour lately and ooooohhh when you can hear the crowd shouting “I wanna see what your insides look like, I bet you’re not fucking pretty on the inside,” while Gerard is singing “You wanna see what my insides look like? I bet I’m not so pretty on the inside”