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Article: MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE ; Pop ++ Brixton Academy LONDON
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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My Chemical Romance speak to a constituency that few over 25 in
Britain can understand. Singer Gerard Way sings of redemption from
depression and death, and a black-garbed teenage tribe who would
once have been goths, but are now a more general phenomenon, listen
intently.
My Chemical Romance have leapt to prominence with third album The
Black Parade, a nakedly ambitious concept album about a teenage
cancer patient, accompanied by Way interviews copiously confessing
to suicidal depression. Adults who wonder what US teenagers have to
whine about underestimate American adolescence's straitjacket
conformity. Whether My Chemical Romance are perpetuating or punching
through depression and ...