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boy_touchingOk, I've recently started listening to My Chemical Romance and am QUITE intrigued by the song "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison." I happened to find an article from a recent (?) issue of AP Magazine where Gerard talks about the song...quite frankly, I must add. Which is hot. I figured I'd type up the excerpt.
Tell me how you managed to wrangle Bert McCracken into singing backup on "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison?"
Sometimes it feels like jail when you've got eight or nine guys in a van. It smells like jail; that's for sure. Sometimes it feels like a prison, but sometimes even the guys in prison, as fucked up and rough as it is, they buddy up and stick through it together. I think that's definitely one of the reasons I wanted Bert to sing on it, because he's one of the few people that I've met on the road and really connected with. He was al like a cellmate, in a way. He's already been through the crazy rock-star shit, and I'm just new to this. [The song is] definitely about that camaraderie, and obviously touches on lost masculinity. I think that just comes from being around dudes so much and you actually start to lose your masculinity. Especially because we're not the kind of band like Motley Crue, where we fuck around with groupies or anything. In that respect, we're very monk-like, in a way.
But the song's pretty homoerotic. Certain lines...
Definitely. There's straight-up lines about going down by myself or going down with my friends.
Exactly.
I also wanted, at the same time [for] the record to be a testament to self-expression, and putting stuff in there like that, while not being a homosexual myself, but expressing myself in a homosexual way, is either going to push your buttons in a negative way or you're going to identify with it.
Well, this whole scene wants you to be sensitive, but not too sensitive.
It is extremely homoerotic, especially the whole emo-sensitive thing. Everyone's wearing women's pants; everyone's got women's haircuts; everyone's wearing youth-medium shirts. I don't have to come out and say it. It's blatantly obvious. Wearing a leather jacket is an extremely masculine thing to do in this scene. Even the hardcore bands, they really hard ones, you see them in makeup and stuff. I like that. I think it keeps it dangerous. It keeps it exciting. In a way, sex as really been missing from rock, especially because of all the sensitivity. That's what I really wanted to convey on the record, too. I wanted the record to be very dangerous and sexy at the same time. There's such a lack of sex in music. It's been more about getting in touch with your feelings and being there for each other, which is great, but it's definitely lacking this sexual duality.
So...yes. Now I am obsessed. If anyone has any My Chemical Romance boytouchy pictures or articles or whatever, I would LOVE it if you'd post them!!
Tell me how you managed to wrangle Bert McCracken into singing backup on "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison?"
Sometimes it feels like jail when you've got eight or nine guys in a van. It smells like jail; that's for sure. Sometimes it feels like a prison, but sometimes even the guys in prison, as fucked up and rough as it is, they buddy up and stick through it together. I think that's definitely one of the reasons I wanted Bert to sing on it, because he's one of the few people that I've met on the road and really connected with. He was al like a cellmate, in a way. He's already been through the crazy rock-star shit, and I'm just new to this. [The song is] definitely about that camaraderie, and obviously touches on lost masculinity. I think that just comes from being around dudes so much and you actually start to lose your masculinity. Especially because we're not the kind of band like Motley Crue, where we fuck around with groupies or anything. In that respect, we're very monk-like, in a way.
But the song's pretty homoerotic. Certain lines...
Definitely. There's straight-up lines about going down by myself or going down with my friends.
Exactly.
I also wanted, at the same time [for] the record to be a testament to self-expression, and putting stuff in there like that, while not being a homosexual myself, but expressing myself in a homosexual way, is either going to push your buttons in a negative way or you're going to identify with it.
Well, this whole scene wants you to be sensitive, but not too sensitive.
It is extremely homoerotic, especially the whole emo-sensitive thing. Everyone's wearing women's pants; everyone's got women's haircuts; everyone's wearing youth-medium shirts. I don't have to come out and say it. It's blatantly obvious. Wearing a leather jacket is an extremely masculine thing to do in this scene. Even the hardcore bands, they really hard ones, you see them in makeup and stuff. I like that. I think it keeps it dangerous. It keeps it exciting. In a way, sex as really been missing from rock, especially because of all the sensitivity. That's what I really wanted to convey on the record, too. I wanted the record to be very dangerous and sexy at the same time. There's such a lack of sex in music. It's been more about getting in touch with your feelings and being there for each other, which is great, but it's definitely lacking this sexual duality.
So...yes. Now I am obsessed. If anyone has any My Chemical Romance boytouchy pictures or articles or whatever, I would LOVE it if you'd post them!!
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Date: 2004-12-30 03:55 am (UTC)Enjoy the pretty pictures :o)
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Date: 2004-12-30 03:54 am (UTC)You can get a lot of good pictures here:
http://winter-roses.cjb.net/
Don't know how you feel about slashfic but there's a community for that here:
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Date: 2004-12-30 02:45 pm (UTC)THANK GOD. :o) <3
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Date: 2004-12-31 06:15 am (UTC)"...and 'Take it Away' contains a not-so-subtle shout-out to McCracken's pals in My Chemical Romance. "I can't say enough good things about those guys," he beams. "They write honest music. They're my favorite new band, by far. They just kill. Gerandhas been such a huge support for me in so many strange ways."
One of those strange ways might find it's origins in the My Chemical Romance song "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison", from MCR's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. "One night [Gerand and I] were making out for so long it almost wasn't funny anymore--even though it still was." McCracken recalls, laughing. "That's what he wrote the song about, whether or not he wants to admit it. We were way wasted."