This document discusses several albums and music videos by the band My Chemical Romance. It summarizes the album covers, singles, and concert designs for their albums Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, The Black Parade, and Danger Days: The True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys. Key details mentioned include the dark and emo styles of Helena and Welcome to the Black Parade, and the more upbeat punk theme of NaNaNa from the Danger Days album. Costumes from the album art and music videos were replicated in the live performances.

1. The Black Parade

2. Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
• The album cover is very similar to the cover of The
Black Parade (the later album) and establishes
further the genre and expectations of the band.
• This is the second studio album by the band. This
means that the band needs to create and establish
their name and fan base.

3. • The bands name ‘My Chemical Romance’ is
larger than the title of the album, I believe
this is because of the genre of the band and
the album.
• Most rock bands from the ‘noughties’ were
trying to establish themselves after the
popularity of boybands in the 90s.
• The album artwork is not of the band, nor a
person, this is also very typical of the rock
genre as bands like to compare themselves
to artists, rather than just musicians.

4. Danger Days: The True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys
• This album is the rather different from the latter
album artworks. The band seems to break free
of the ‘emo’ reputation slightly and conveys
themselves as punks instead.

5. Music Video - Helena
• Helena is the first single released from the 2004
album ‘Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge’.
• Like ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’, Helena was
very dark and ‘emo’.

6. • The music video for the first single released on
the album was for ‘Welcome to the Black
Parade’, which coincided with the album
artwork, the insert and the genre of music the
video included.
• In the insert, a poster and popup book are
featured where the lyrics to the songs are
established and an image of the band dressed as
they do in the music video.

7. Music Video – NaNaNa
• NaNaNa was the first single released from
the 2010 album ‘Danger Days: The True
Lives of Fabulous Killjoys’
• NaNaNa was very different from previous
works by MCR because a punk, retro theme
was highlighted.
• The song is also very upbeat and loud, unlike
The Black Parade’s songs, which are quite
depressing and downbeat.

8. Concert Design - Helena
The costume worn by the band members matches the
costumes on the album cover.
The concert design very much matched the themes portrayed
in the songs performed and the album artwork.

9. • The live performance had similarities to
both the album artwork and the music video
previously mentioned.
• Gerard Way (lead singer- pictured left)
wears the costume worn in both the music
video and by the illustration on the CD
cover.
• The use of blue in all performances on ‘The
Black Parade World Tour’ references the
depressing nature of the songs.

10. Concert Design - NaNaNa
The costume worn by the band members
matches the costumes on the album cover.