Masters of Their Universe: A false start inspired My Chemical Romance’s Danger Days

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By Emily Zemler

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[blame_mona]

'the aftermath is secondary' has been used too many times that it's starting to bug me a lot. either way, good interview even though i knew it all lol

[symmetry]

I feel so bad for them at this point in press, these questions have been asked so many times it must be beyond boring to have to answer them.

[rosalui]

THIS IS BRAND NEW INFOR-

*zzzzzzzzzzz*

[tei_0]

HEY GUESS WHAT GUYS

IT'S A HIGH CONCEPT

ISN'T THAT COOL TO KNOW?

[mjb12]

Ugh, words & phrases I want to ban for the next year:
"high concept", "first attempt", and "scrap".

They were writing an album, continued to write songs, continued to write songs, and got to Danger Days. You didn't scrap an entire album when 1/3 of it made it onto Danger Days. You just kept working until you were finished.

[mjb12]

1/3 didn't make it onto Danger Days. They wrote around 20-30 songs, a lot of which were mixed and album ready. 3-4 ended up on Danger Days. So yes, they did scrap it. I'm pretty sure the band knows what they're talking about when they keep repeating the same thing over and over.

[mjb12]

Not to mention the fact that album artwork was being worked on and promotion was gearing up. When they say they were done with the album, I don't think they are exaggerating.

[mjb12]

If they were ready to release a 12-ish song album, and 4 of those songs made it to Danger Days, that's about 1/3.