My Chemical Romance Release Official Fan-Made Video - Watch Now
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Written by Heather McDaid
With their latest record ‘Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys’ being packed with colourful imagery and a comic-infused world, the band promised fans a trio of videos documenting the journey of the Killjoys in the zones. While they’ve exceeded their promise of three videos from this record - the third being a dance party for ‘Planetary (GO!)’ - the newest doesn’t finish the tale ‘Na Na Na’ and ‘The Only Hope For Me Is You’ started; in fact, it is a video made primarily by a fan.
Their newly-released video for ‘The Kids From Yesterday’ documents the bands journey through their Danger Days phase, including old footage from their DVD ‘Life on the Murder Scene’ and various shows from over the years.
Guitarist, Frank Iero, took to the band’s official website to explain the reasoning behind this video choice, saying, “This song means a lot of different things to us individually and we hope it speaks to you as well. When deciding what kind of video would work the best with the song we immediately thought of a "video collage", something that would show the progression of the band over the past 10 years leading up to one of our most memorable moments, closing the Reading and Leeds festivals this past summer.”
“We began collecting footage and literally stumbled upon an incredible video done by a talented young lady named Emily Eisemann,” he continues. “She had made a fan video, put it up on YouTube and it summed up what we had been trying so very hard to make, perfectly. So we gave her a call, put our videos together, and the rest, as they say, is history.”
Not only did the band ask Emily to help with the concluding video of the Danger Days era, but they let her talk about how she felt being able to make this video. She said, “I could never have expected that one day, I would be contacted by the overwhelmingly lovely people of My Chem’s management and asked, in exchange for compensation, to contribute what I had made to the official video for Kids. Not after an era of spectacular Killjoy videos with whose Trans-Ams, inclusion of legendary comic book writers, and badassery, my own creation could never compete.”
“I am thrilled if other fans watch my work, and humbled to know that the band themselves has done the same. The idea that it was wanted for an official release, however, left me flailing. [...] I hope you guys can forgive the length and rambling nature of this. In summary: Overwhelming joy! Artistic fulfillment! This band is fucking awesome. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and I love you all.”
Emily’s full comments can be seen on the My Chemical Romance website. The original video she made, which not only caught the band’s attention but caused the entire fanbase to experience the overwhelming wave of nostalgia, can be seen here.
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