10 Reasons Why My Chemical Romance Desperately Need To Reform
3. Their Music Videos Were Amazing
In a world filled with generic rock videos (how many times have we seen gloomy-looking teens and skate parks?) MCR werent afraid to go high-concept. Nowadays we take for granted some of the absurdly bombastic music videos out there musicians like Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift release music videos to vast anticipation, lengthy narratives akin to short films. But spare a thought for the videos that released with the bands 2004 album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. Classic videos like Im Not Okay (I Promise), Helena and The Ghost Of You were all wildly inventive and well ahead of the modern film-esque curve almost a decade ahead at that. And while you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that that's where the band's incredibly ambitious music videos started, you've only got to take a step further back to MCR's first album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love to see just how far these roots go. The music video for Honey, This Mirror Ain't Big Enough For The Two Of Us pays gruesome homage to the Japanese horror film Audition, depicting brutal torture alongside a passionate (albeit sweaty) performance. And if that's not enough, the subdued video for Vampires Will Never Hurt You is a gloomy love letter to German Expressionist film-making. With all that being said, the narrative-driven music videos for singles on The Black Parade and Danger Days need absolutely no introduction. With the loss of MCR 5 (and any alternative/future records) comes the loss of a bunch of amazing music videos. Damn it, guys, just get back together already! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5_492D-tLA
