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!

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

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!

mcr-transcripts:

Source: Hot 30 Countdown:  January 27, 2012

Transcribed by: Cassie

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Hot 30: Yeah, My Chemical Romance, they are in the country. Ray is on right now. Good to talk to you, mate!

Ray Toro: Yeah, good talking to you too!

Hot 30: I love the album and a lot of people on our our Twitter are saying they love it as well. We do a thing called “twinterviews” here where we let the fans write questions on Twitter for you guy. All you’ve got to do is go to “#Hot30Twinterview” if you do want to send one through.

Now, we had [Username] has sent one that said, “Would you guys ever consider doing another concept album like you did for The Black Parade?”

Ray Toro: It’s tricky. Uhm, we try not to repeat ourselves as much as we can, you know? I feel like each album we do does have some kind of connection or some kind of concept in a sense like that. Black Parade, I think, was our best attempt at a concept record. I don’t know. If we do go back to that, I think it might be a while. We’re always trying to find a new thing for us. You know: keep us excited, keep us interested and keep people listening to us. That’s the most important thing, I think, for music—for our music—is to constantly change and reinvent ourselves and find what the new sound is.

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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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