I'm Okay Now
I am a really huge fan of MCR, and I just want to say that on behalf of anyone who's life has been saved by MCR to stand up and be proud to be an MCR fan. In fact, they kept me from self-harming.
I also found a really good website called WE'RE OKAY NOW at mylivingromance.urli.net.
Are MCR dangerous? They wear black, their music is dark. Worried parents and overjealous journalists see in My Chemical Romance a danger. They reproach the band with advising their fans to commit suicide on their new CD "The Black Parade". But the singer Gerard Way gets the reproach straight: "People, who claim this, haven't got anything. We want that people decide to live."
This project is us standing up for the fact that we're okay. We don't want to fight, this project is just our side od the story, that we leave out for interpretation. My Chemical Romance saving lives has become a cliche, but it's truth to some people, and the impact the band has had on those people's lives shouldn't be lessened just because the phrase is considered as a cliche now.
Stereotyping My Chemical Romance as a band that promotes self-harm/suicide, is incredibly offensive to us and them. It's lazy on the part of adults and critics who, instead of admitting that maybe they haven't been there for their kinds, choose a scape goat instead. Kids don't self-harm because My Chemical Romance would tell them to do so, they don't self-harm because they are emo and think that's the right thing to do. That's something parents, adults and the wider world need to know and respect.
For once in my life, I decided to stand up and do something. I'm sick and tired of hearing how My Chemical Romance "advises their fans to commit suicide". Not only just being a band, My Chemical Romance saves lives. They have got a message through to kids in a way kinds understand. And that makes smart, "civiliced" people and parents think differently. My Chemical Romance have saved lives and they continiu to do so. Press can say whatever they want but saying they "advise their fans to commit suicide", or that they're "sell outs" insults about every fan of My Chemical Romance. Like Gerard Ssaid, if being on MTV/TRL makes their message out even further and it's actually helping more people, than that's all that matters. They don't care about fame. They want to, and do save lives, they don't take them away. People that claim they do so, do.
This is not just my opinion. I know that there's a bunch of other people who feel the same way, and whose life has been totally turned around by My Chemical Romance. When Gerard Way decided to start a band after September 11, 2001 attacks, he thought "Here I am, wasting my life with making nothing meaningful for anyone else." And that's what My Chemical Romance does now. They make things meanful for others. They make life meanful for others. They make kids feel like they have a purpose and like they have a reason to live. And they do. Every one of us has every right to be in this world. We have the right to stand up for the things that mean a lot to us. We have the right to stand up for our rights. We have the right to dye our hair black without hearing from others that we're emo. We have the right to listen to My Chemical Romance without everyone thinking we slit our wrists. We have the right to be saved without other people considering it a cliche. These are our rights. Rights that every people should have without having to fight for them.
There are so many things wrong in this world and My Chemical Romance fights against them. They make world a better place to live. They save lives -or help fans do it themselves. We know this project doesn't represent anything that's wrong, we know we're not wrong. And even if we were, our job isn't always to be right. Making mistakes is just part of life and it teatches you. I might work with this project 'til the end of time still not getting any attention from the media, but there's other things to it. I get something from this project. Other people get something from this project. This projects makes fans -including me- feel better. It let's people stand up for what they believe in, it let's people be part of something, it let's people share their story. So whatever happens, I have succeeded in something. I've seen the effort and made something to change the world. I've done something meanful for me and other people. So I know this project counts."
The more media says My Chemical Romance is bad, the more we prove media wrong." --mylivingromance.urli.net
I also found a really good website called WE'RE OKAY NOW at mylivingromance.urli.net.
Are MCR dangerous? They wear black, their music is dark. Worried parents and overjealous journalists see in My Chemical Romance a danger. They reproach the band with advising their fans to commit suicide on their new CD "The Black Parade". But the singer Gerard Way gets the reproach straight: "People, who claim this, haven't got anything. We want that people decide to live."
This project is us standing up for the fact that we're okay. We don't want to fight, this project is just our side od the story, that we leave out for interpretation. My Chemical Romance saving lives has become a cliche, but it's truth to some people, and the impact the band has had on those people's lives shouldn't be lessened just because the phrase is considered as a cliche now.
Stereotyping My Chemical Romance as a band that promotes self-harm/suicide, is incredibly offensive to us and them. It's lazy on the part of adults and critics who, instead of admitting that maybe they haven't been there for their kinds, choose a scape goat instead. Kids don't self-harm because My Chemical Romance would tell them to do so, they don't self-harm because they are emo and think that's the right thing to do. That's something parents, adults and the wider world need to know and respect.
For once in my life, I decided to stand up and do something. I'm sick and tired of hearing how My Chemical Romance "advises their fans to commit suicide". Not only just being a band, My Chemical Romance saves lives. They have got a message through to kids in a way kinds understand. And that makes smart, "civiliced" people and parents think differently. My Chemical Romance have saved lives and they continiu to do so. Press can say whatever they want but saying they "advise their fans to commit suicide", or that they're "sell outs" insults about every fan of My Chemical Romance. Like Gerard Ssaid, if being on MTV/TRL makes their message out even further and it's actually helping more people, than that's all that matters. They don't care about fame. They want to, and do save lives, they don't take them away. People that claim they do so, do.
This is not just my opinion. I know that there's a bunch of other people who feel the same way, and whose life has been totally turned around by My Chemical Romance. When Gerard Way decided to start a band after September 11, 2001 attacks, he thought "Here I am, wasting my life with making nothing meaningful for anyone else." And that's what My Chemical Romance does now. They make things meanful for others. They make life meanful for others. They make kids feel like they have a purpose and like they have a reason to live. And they do. Every one of us has every right to be in this world. We have the right to stand up for the things that mean a lot to us. We have the right to stand up for our rights. We have the right to dye our hair black without hearing from others that we're emo. We have the right to listen to My Chemical Romance without everyone thinking we slit our wrists. We have the right to be saved without other people considering it a cliche. These are our rights. Rights that every people should have without having to fight for them.
There are so many things wrong in this world and My Chemical Romance fights against them. They make world a better place to live. They save lives -or help fans do it themselves. We know this project doesn't represent anything that's wrong, we know we're not wrong. And even if we were, our job isn't always to be right. Making mistakes is just part of life and it teatches you. I might work with this project 'til the end of time still not getting any attention from the media, but there's other things to it. I get something from this project. Other people get something from this project. This projects makes fans -including me- feel better. It let's people stand up for what they believe in, it let's people be part of something, it let's people share their story. So whatever happens, I have succeeded in something. I've seen the effort and made something to change the world. I've done something meanful for me and other people. So I know this project counts."
The more media says My Chemical Romance is bad, the more we prove media wrong." --mylivingromance.urli.net
