After a heart-pounding fight to the end, we made it to the 5th round of MTV’s Musical March Madness: THE SEMIFINALS!!

We’re against Green Day, so this is going to be a FIERCE battle! We’ve made it this far the past couple years, we need to make it all the way this time!

Go vote and keep it up!

The fourth round of Musical March Madness ends tonight! Let’s make sure MCR stay in the race!

Earlier today, the official Metallica account tweeted, and they managed to get ahead of us; so, we need to continuously vote to secure our lead.

If they were to tweet again, I know—having witnessed how fast they got ahead earlier—that they could easily pass us again.

MCRmy unite! The official MCR account probably will not tweet; so, we’re on our own in this: All the better to show how fucking powerful we are.

DESTROY!!

Musical March Madness Round 4:  My Chemical Romance v. Metallica

Voting will end March 30 at 12:00 a.m. EST (since midnight can be a tricky thing, that’s the one immediately following 11:59 p.m. EST on March 29)

At the time of posting, our percentage is declining rapidly. We are at 55.21% while Metallica is at 44.79%.

Yes, we are winning, but it is only by a small margin. Do not get arrogant—we must continue to vote mercilessly!

Remember that if you vote too much within a period of time, you will be blocked for two hours. So, pace yourself and vote continuously!

Please reblog this.

These match-ups have been easy-peasy (“pumpkin-peasy, pumpkin pie, motherfucker”) to this point.

However, we’re in the later stages now and we need all the Killjoy power we can get! The next round is going to be even tougher than this; so, keep rallying fans!

We’ve ALMOST won this the past couple years. Let’s make this year the year that we win. Let’s show the guys how excited we are about their recording and how much we believe in them.

VOTE!

We made it to the 4th round, MCRmy!

My Chemical Romance vs. Metallica: GO!

http://t.co/n3tOOPqI

(At posting time, we’re about 50/50. Let’s pass them and secure our lead early!)

mcr-transcripts:

mcrupdates:

New interview with Mikey Way and Gerard Way.

Text Version:

Title: “My Chemical Romance Talk Glee And The Big Day Out”
Source: Take 40 (via mcrupdates)
Date: February 1 (made available internationally February 6)
Transcribed By: Cassie
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[Commentary interspersed with “SING” video footage. Note: This website seems pretty tabloid-y, and they seem to be kind of egging the guys on with questions that sort of waste their time. Gerard and Mikey, as you will see, don’t play into it and seem slightly annoyed.]

Take 40: What is it like being on the charts with Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Beyoncé?

Gerard Way: You know, when it happens, it is comfortable because I think that the music and the art we make is—it should be out there. That’s why it’s made. So, if like it’s butted up against anything else that’s deemed relevant at the time, then that’s acceptable. You know, that’s fine.

Mikey Way: You, I mean, I just think it’s kind of cool that, like, you know— we’re a bunch of friends who recorded a demo in an attic, played VFW halls and basements, and the fact that—yeah—we get mentioned sometimes in the same light as that, it’s kind of interesting.

Gerard Way: [Do we] embarrass easily? No, you know what—we’re kind of like animals. Like, if somebody tries to embarrass us, we lash out pretty meanly.

Mikey Way: Yeah…

Gerard Way: It doesn’t really—. It’s—. I mean, we’re a rock band, so we’re kind of allowed to do that. We also don’t show up for red carpets and crap like that.

Mikey Way: Yeah, we don’t go to that stuff…

Gerard Way: So, we don’t put ourselves in positions to be embarrassed or—. ‘cause I find that if you’re putting yourself out there in that way, and that’s the kind of attention you want, you will ultimately be shamed, embarrassed, messed-with, et cetera.

Mikey Way: We’ve never really had, like, an “awkward celebrity moment.” If anything, people have always been really kind to us.

Take 40: Who does a better version of “SING:” You or Glee?

Gerard Way: Us. [grinning]

Mikey Way: Yeah, I wouldn’t even think that was talking shit. I think we do a better version, but their version was cool.

Gerard Way: I know a lot of people found out about the song that way, but that’s the point. Hearing the original, they might have been like, “Oh, that’s a lot harder” or “harsher,” rather. That’s the idea. The idea with Danger Days and especially that song was to subvert and get under the skin of certain individuals politically, socially, and also to get on national TV. Once that option was there, it was kind of like, “Yeah! That’s why it was written:” to get in there and talk about just how we feel about the world.

Mikey Way: There’s some different harmonies they [mumbled, inaudible]

Gerard Way: They kind of stacked a lot of vocals, a lot of harmonies and stuff, but that’s about it. I didn’t like the outfits, for sure…

Mikey Way: It was cool to see it in a different light. It was basically being like, “Well, how would you do this?” I mean, it was similar, but different.

Take 40: Kanye West VS Soundgarden: Who would win?

Gerard Way: [shaking head with a bemused smile] we’re not gonna go near it.

Take 40: [calling out in the background] Why? Because it’s—

Gerard Way: [direct] ‘cause I don’t care. [laughs]

Mikey Way: Yeah…

Gerard Way: Let me put it this way: We’ve been asked a lot of questions about the festival, like, “What’s going on with it?” First of all, there’s something every year with every festival. There’s always some kind of drama, whatever. [quickly] Personally, I think it’s a conspiracy to drive ticket sales, but that’s an aside.

Mikey Way: Yeah, people love drama…

Gerard Way: Our hour onstage is the same hour as any other festival we ever play, and it’s fucking awesome. And I don’t think or look or pay attention to anybody else’s hour but ours, and I feel like we’ve got the best hour, so.

Mikey Way: We like to stay drama free.

Gerard Way: Yup…

Mikey Way: Drama free.

[both grinning]

mcr-transcripts:

Some of you may know me from my other various My Chemical Romance projects around the web as Cassie The Venomous or the #MCRchat girl.

With a news blog and an active Twitter chat why, you would be justified in asking, would I create yet another MCR project?

It’s simple: information access.

1. We still have yet to master making multimedia items like audio and video searchable. That leads to fan confusion about the origin of quotations, their contexts and validity. I often see scenarios like this:

“Do you know in what article Gerard said ‘Let’s just say I’m good at the rodeo?’”

“No. That’s weird. Why would he say that?”

“I don’t know. Someone on Tumblr just said he did.”

There are several problems in the aforementioned scenario. One is that the medium is wrong. It was not, in fact, an “article” in which Gerard said that but in a radio interview.  Also, it is out-of-context, so it makes entirely no sense.

Transcribing video and audio interviews will make them more searchable.

Without knowing the context, a fan would have difficulties finding the WSOU interview from which the quote is derived. Additionally, and this brings me to my next point, sometimes they would not be able to access the interview even after they have found it.

2. Not all of us have high-speed connections that allow us access to audio and video. It’s sad but true. When I go home from University, I am among this group. Because one does not live in an area geographically suited for a high-speed connection or cannot afford it does not mean that the information should not be available to him or her.

Additionally, some people use screen-readers or devices that aid disability that are unable to play videos.

This may seem like a backward move to those in the technological fast-lane; however, there is power in knowledge and information should be there for everyone to find.

Transcribing video and audio interviews will make them accessible to a wider group of fans.

3. We’re an international fan community, and it is simply easier to translate text than it is to transcribe from audio. Simple as that. MCR’s fans come from all over the world. I can only imagine if my first language were not English and I had to do heavy translating each time I watched one of their interviews.

Transcribing video and audio interviews will aid in making them more understandable on a more global scale.

Obviously, I take my MCR very seriously, but I am certainly not alone in that. With hope, this page will aid fans in finding and verifying information while also including some fans who have been left out along the way.

Now that I’ve had time to get some content up here, I figured I’d spread the word about it a bit.

I hope this will help some people, and if you have any suggestions, please let me know!

My Chemical Romance contest from yours truly!

The prizes:

1. A set of MCR action figures
2. A signed shirt from MASScanvas
3. An unsigned shirt from MASScanvas

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