Is MCR a Gen Z band or a Millenial band? I'm only asking because a lot of Gen Z adopted pic related as "their album" in recent years but the oldest Gen Z were only 10 years old when this album came out, like there's no way any of them were the teenagers that scared the hell out of Gerard Way. Is Gen Z just that desperate for music that's actually loud and meant to be played live and not at home on lean?
Is MCR a Gen Z band or a Millenial band...
I was not allowed to listen to this growing up because the song "Black Mamba" had the little e next to it on itunes. My millenia nsister was. Hope this answers your question.
How do you feel about your generation needing to co-opt this album as their own when none of you have any personal connections to it the same way millenials did? NCR was truly the last real rockband imo
Counterpoint: I was allowed to and often listen to Missy Elliot, Nikka Costa, and Alanis Morissette when I was a child. I'm 31 for reference.
I was born in 91, mcr were big when i was in junior high, zoomers listen to shitty rap and hyper pop and cant into rock
I'm 31 for reference.
In other words you're not a zoomer. The oldest zoomers are like 28
I think you missed the point. It makes perfect sense for zoomers to identify with music from 2005 the way I identify with music from 1995.
imo someone born in 2000 adopting MCR as the voice of their generation is the same as someone born in 1995 adopting Nirvana as the voice of their generation. You can enjoy Nirvana and MCR as they are but it's a but dishonest to say they speak to you in the same way that music spoke to their respective contemporaries
As someone born in '93. I didn't grow up listening to Nirvana but I did grow up with TLC, Spice Girls, En Vogue, Missy Elliot, Lauryn Hill, No Doubt, and Alanis Morissette. And their music was more responsible for my musical development than most of the big artists of the 2000s aside from maybe Jill Scott, and a lot of the songs produced by the Neptunes.
To me, as a millennial, this band sounded like some Queen revival with goth undertones.
Emos were a niche thing back then, anyway, I wouldn't say MCR was millennialcore. Emo was a very divisive current, like Bieber was for normies. A lot of people made fun of them.
It was considered a phase in your teen you'd eventually grow out. I suppose like listening to rap when you're 14.
Emos might've been a niche thing back then but Black Parade sure as hell wasn't a niche album even back then. That was like the one time in history where you had Xbox 360 frat bros listening to emo
It was mainstream where I grew up and I hated it. I wanted to jam out to Parliament Funkadelic, Steely Dan, and Steppenwolf and everyone else wanted to play My Chemical romance, Fall Out Boy, and All American Rejects. I hated middle school.
I dont care desu
mcr formed in 01
earliest album is from 02
three cheers is from 04
black parade is from 06
emos would have been 14/15/16 in that same time range
meaning they'd have to have been born in the 90s
millenials are from 81-96
gen z are from 97-2012
final verdict
They're mostly a millenial band
it's obviously a gen z band, similar to Deftones
Black Parade sure as hell wasn't a niche album
77th best selling and 2nd most streamed album from 2006
Millenial band praised by the zoomer generation.
Remember millennials loved Gen X bands like Nirvana or Pearl Jam? Same case here
I was born in 99 and was into My Sharticle Shitpants around 2010. My sisters, mother, cousins, and aunt were into them. Now I hate them and the insistence that they are the peak of all rock music by zoomers. Gay fucking band.
I'm a millennial (1983), and I have literally never heard of MCR outside of Anon Babble.
How? Where were you during your 20s? In the army?
Kinda same, but I think it's because I wasn't listening much to mainstream music back in the 00s.
Early 00s I was listening to downtempo, trip-hop, some IDM. I wasn't much into rock back then.
Only heard about MCR later from other millennials and it looked lame to me like everything emo. I never liked anything emo even though it was supposedly millennial culture. Same for hiphop, though there are some exceptions. So I might just not be very typical.
This band has always been fucking shit and the revisionism on this was a mistake.
I was 10, almost 11(born December 1995), so technically a late millennial, almost proto-zoomer when The Black Parade came out and it was pretty formative for me. It was the first album I really got into and read all about its influences, so it basically introduced me to classic rock and concept albums/rock operas.
I could see that being the case for kids a little younger than me, who watched the music videos on MTV and then maybe actually listened to the album a few years later or got introduced to them by their older siblings or got into them during the Danger Days era.
Millennials were for sure the core fanbase and they were the ones who went to their shows during their prime and made them successful, but a lot of elder millennials dismissed them, so I'd say they're mostly a nostalgic band for mid to late millennials and zillennials who consider them a big part of their childhood and formative years. The oldest millennials were in their mid-20s in 2006 and most were probably into landfill indie p4k core or boomer metal at the time.
goth undertones
goth
undertones
Does black aesthetic or black clothing make someone goth? Mcr are more post hardcore with heavy queen and pink floyd (oddly enough) influences during their black parade era
pink floyd
maybe some parts of "the wall" , but outside of that, i cant hear the floyd at all in the black parade
i was born in 1995. i prefer to rip off my own dick than to claim this emo theater kid garbage as inspirational.
Born in 1993. Honestly same. Maybe even take out a lung.
Gen X.
Gerard Way was born in 1977
Mostly the overall concept album angle and they directly nod pink floyd on the intro to the black parade "the end." They don't rip off PF and go full psychedelic or philosophical, they have little nods like how in the black parade they might have queen moments or a bit of maiden going on. The whole rock opera, concept album, larger than life sgt peppers sort of experience that is like a musical but in album form.
Pic related is one of the records I listened to frequently during 2005 when it came out. I will never understand people that unironically listened to bland garbage like MCR during their teenage years. It's so commercial it's not even funny. Hot Topic-core.
Do millenials think thay people are meant to just throw all music made before they turned 14 in the trash? Do you guys not listen to Pink Floyd?
They're fun tunes
This. While I did listen to a few artists that came out when I was a kid. by the early-mid 2000s I primarily listened to Sergio Mendes, Donna Summer, Parliament Funkadelic, James Brown, Chic, Minnie Riperton, and Basia.
MCR are a "gay" band so they're not "real music". If it ain't obscure brutal death metal, war metal, or black metal then it ain't "real music"
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People on Anon Babble either like obscure crap/deep cuts of whatever metal, grunge etc.. artists into obscurantism, or are into mainstream brainless crap.
You're supposed to appreciate/enjoy old stuff AND make your own/be open minded to the new.
ITCOCK is my alltime favorite album but that doesn't mean I want every band to just copy them/or for people to just obsess over Fripp for eternity and make nothing themselves.
what age were you then? i hope you've grown out of it by now - this shit is dire
i hope you've grown out of it by now
this shit is dire
it's a gay hot topic band
Also the beginning of the Teenagers music video references The Wall movie. The lyric "another cog in the murder machine" is also a nod.
Didn't they wear eyeliner? Not very familiar with this band, I think I've seen some photos of them with dark makeup
Which would make sense if they were an emo band to have a dark aesthetic
It's a millennial album that zoomers love