{"id":2445114,"date":"2019-06-08T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/an-ode-to-my-chemical-romances-three-cheers-for-sweet-revenge-15-years-from"},"modified":"2019-06-08T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:31:00","slug":"an-ode-to-my-chemical-romances-three-cheers-for-sweet-revenge-15-years-from-its-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/an-ode-to-my-chemical-romances-three-cheers-for-sweet-revenge-15-years-from-its-release\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode To My Chemical Romance\u2019s \u2018Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge\u2019, 15 Years From Its Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Happy Birthday to a legend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/mcr_2005.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So this is it. Today <strong>My Chemical Romance<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge\u2019 turns 15 years old. That\u2019s right &#8211; if \u2018Three Cheers\u2019 was a person, they\u2019d be entering their very own emo phase, and starting to tell their parents they just DON\u2019T UNDERSTAND. They grow up so fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Three Cheers\u2019 is a megalith &#8211; a titan of alternative music. It\u2019s a conceptual album with its roots in trauma, loss and love, but without leaving you feeling grief-stricken. An album so deeply embedded in culture that its presence is still felt 15 years on &#8211; its reappearance in the Billboard Album Charts earlier this year is a testament to this fact.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhZTNgAs4Fc\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But \u2018Three Cheers\u2019 wasn\u2019t just an album &#8211; it built a foundation for a proper subculture of people who felt like outcasts and weirdos; it started a movement. Before Gerard Way became the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned, he was the off-centre, oftentimes reluctant leader of the emo subculture.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s genuinely near impossible to think of an album which played a more active role in the shaping of youth culture in the 2000s than \u2018Three Cheers\u2019 did. It started out as just <em>\u201cthe story of a man. A woman. And the corpses of a thousand evil men\u2026\u201d<\/em> but what it became was so much more &#8211; so much larger than itself. It was the launchpad for the scrappy New Jersey punks to take on the world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UCCyoocDxBA\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beyond all of that, it\u2019s the perfect snapshot of the culture from which it was born &#8211; it\u2019s the product of people who grew up in a pre-9\/11 world, and are now growing up to see the world they knew changing dramatically around them. But it\u2019s also the soundtrack to kids whose lives are equally divisible by the events of 9\/11 &#8211; from the normality of childhood, growing through the world changing overnight in their teenage years. It\u2019s a piece of art from &#8211; and for &#8211; a disenfranchised, disenchanted group of people.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s most important though, is that 15 years later its themes still resonate. While we may no longer 14 years old and screaming \u2018I\u2019m Not Okay (I Promise)\u2019 over every minor inconvenience we suffer (or maybe we are)\u2026 it\u2019s transformed into an anthem for accepting that it\u2019s okay to not always be okay. &#8216;The Ghost Of You&#8217; still makes that familiar sting of tears form in your eyes as you remember those that you, and the band have lost along the way &#8211; and &#8216;Hang Em High&#8217; still makes you want to grab onto the nearest chandelier and swing like you&#8217;ve never swung before. It\u2019s still as good today as it was the day it was released.<\/p>\n<p>When My Chem hit \u2018The Black Parade\u2019, they knew what they were doing. It was polished, it was conceptual, it had a narrative. But \u2018Three Cheers\u2019 walked so that \u2018The Black Parade\u2019 could run.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday to a legend. Hallelujah, lock and load.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/an-ode-to-my-chemical-romances-three-cheers-for-sweet-revenge-15-years-from\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to a legend. So this is it. Today My Chemical Romance\u2019s \u2018Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge\u2019 turns 15 years old. That\u2019s right &#8211; if \u2018Three Cheers\u2019 was a person, they\u2019d be entering their very own emo phase, and starting to tell their parents they just DON\u2019T UNDERSTAND. They grow up so fast. \u2018Three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 13:54:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}