The music video version of the song seems to have some added audio. During and after the lyrics "They say all teenagers scare the living shit out of me", there are piano notes playing in the background in the style of western music . The album version of the song does not have this piano playing until the coda.
The word "deviance" reminds me of the punk-emo-rock phase of the 90's. Bands like Paramore, Green Day, and My Chemical Romance permeated the dedicated teenage rocker crowd. So moving were their blunt, angry, and head-banging lyrics to teens of the time, that they dressed like the bands and emulated their "my-parents-don't-get-me" vibe in what some would call deviant behavior. Heavy makeup, "scene" hair, and tight jeans were hallmark looks of the time.
I myself am terribly guilty of straightening my fringe till it pointed, insisting on jagged layers and black eyeliner. In public, people would scoff and roll their eyes at my friends and I. The look in their eyes told us we would grow up to be deviant young adults addicted to drugs, sex, and rock and roll. Later, many of these kids would be taking drugs; ones that were perfectly legal. Far from our anti-establishment rock, we would become institutionalized under the psychotropic system of anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications, and ADHD pills. 'They could care less as long as someone'll bleed.', meaning that we are happy as long as someone is dead, hurt, or cutting themselves.
This songs meaning as others said above is the adults view on the teenagers they see now a days. Because we wear dark cloths and listen to punk, metal, rock, etc. They think we are problematic because we try to show we are different from the rest of there children. That we are not exact copies of there pathetic douche bag children. We try to show we are different so they think of us as violent rebels. We wanna be different and I will do anything or say anything to anyone to protect what I stand for.
I don't know about you guys but I am proud of being a different "violent" teenager I rather be that than those kids that ridicule others because they are different. "This will probably sound super stereotypical of a former emo kid but pretty much any song by My Chemical Romance… A bit odd but I love sad songs with deep meanings when I'm depressed." — Mikayla H. Humor, though, was always My Chemical Romance's greatest weapon.
Their songs about vampires were always a little tongue-in-cheek, but nothing was funnier than how ruthlessly "Vampire Money" from Danger Days poked fun at peers who recorded songs for the Twilight soundtracks when vamps went mainstream. Instead, the band happily allowed "SING," the biggest hit from the album, to be covered by the cast of TV's Glee, at a time when bands like Kings of Leon and Foo Fighters made an empty rock cred gesture of turning down the kids from William McKinley High. This is a band, after all, whose big name guest star for the first album they made after hitting it big was Liza fucking Minnelli — they rocked hard, but weren't afraid to let you see their jazz hands.
Given the band's penchant for violent imagery, it's amazing they sold as many records as they did without ever becoming embroiled in Marilyn Manson-level controversy — the closest they got was when a teen fan committed suicide in 2008. When "Teenagers," the darkly funny Black Parade standout, was released as the album's last single, they were cautious to close the video with a "violence is never the answer" PSA message. Appearing as the official song for the movie adaptation of Watchmen, MCR take one of Dylan's most famous songs and inject a bit of punk rock energy into it. The video that accompanies this raucous rendition harks back to some of the violent and visceral shows that made up the early days of the punk and hardcore scenes. Admit it, you'd love to be crowdsurfing at that gig.
There's deep-cut lyrics from 2002 debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, recreated scenes from iconic music videos like "Helena" and "Teenagers", and touching nods to loved ones of MCR band members who have passed away. Below you will find lyrics, music video and translation of Teenagers - My Chemical Romance in various languages. The music video with the song's audio track will automatically start at the bottom right.
To improve the translation you can follow this link or press the blue button at the bottom. "The lyrics can be interpreted in many ways, but it always calmed me down. Helped me through my dark days of depression and anxiety.
Reminded me to 'just breathe.' The feel of the song, lyrics, music, is all very calming. 'The boys and girls in the cliques, the awful names that will stick; you're never gonna fit in much, kid.' This is saying that the 'prep', popular && sporty teenagers are going to make fun of us and pick on us && that we will never fit in with them. 'But when you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did.' This is saying that when you are feeling depressed, hurt && alone.
Bringing a gun to school, or hiding a weapon 'under your shirt', can make them pay for the things that they did, by shooting, killing or at the very least scaring them into respecting you. Starting out as a sleazy casting call before developing into something much more sinister, this was the band's first venture into a real narrative within their music videos. Once more paying tribute to the unpredictably disturbing world of horror, there are moments here that will surely make your skin crawl as the visuals take on more of a snuff film feel than a music video.
Whatever grouchy critics and snide contrarians thought of them in their mid-2000's heyday doesn't matter anymore. It's pretty much accepted canon at this point that My Chemical Romance are one of the most significant rock bands this side of the millennium. And as yesterday's teenagers become today's arbiters of acceptable nostalgia, that sentiment isn't going anywhere soon.
Last December, the New Jersey band announced their long-awaited return since breaking up in 2013, and it felt like one of the most cataclysmic moments in recent rock history. After a decade of eyebrow-raising reunions, this was the first one that felt like it really mattered for millennials and Le Wrong Generation Gen Z kids who weren't of-age during their Top 40 years. The band have continued to tease 2020 live dates, and they've also shared a snippet of new music. The video also maintains the color and feel of the other Danger Days videos even though it's not set in the album's fictional landscape. It's hard not to feel the energy and excitement of the live show when watching this one, and though it is a live video, it still manages to feel out of this world. Basically, the song is mostly about Emos and depressed people scaring the shit out of them, because they know how it feels, and they know that they might lash out at any moment and start a massacre to get back at the people who made their lives hell.
But they only know this because they've felt this all before and this is why they are in the most perfect position to sing this song. Because they've been through the same thing, it makes you feel they understand you. I never felt offended, because the song isn't about any teenager, it's the ones who've been bullied and are actually likely to go on a blood and gore spree. And it's true that they do feel like murdering them.
I've felt it before, and my friends have felt it, too. Lyrically, Cubicles will go down in history as the biggest ever overreaction to a short-lived unrequited office romance. Every day life taken to its catastrophically emo peak. MCR were no strangers to reinvention, performing their third album as a fictional band called The Black Parade and their fourth and final album as The Fabulous Killjoys. Famous Last Words, however, feels like the final song written by the first iteration of My Chemical Romance. Over three albums blighted by sorrow and driven by anger, Famous Last Words was as triumphant an anthem as they come –– those final few bars confirming that MCR was never about winning, but about living.
Another live video but one that feels much more sentimental than the one we saw for 'Planetary (GO!)'. From the studio to the stage, the front of the crowd to the back of the van, this is a view of a band doing what they do best in the most touching of manners. Showcasing footage from every single era of MCR, it's hard not to get a little bit choked up watching it all unfold. It's absolutely insane that any of Fall Out Boy's post-hiatus songs were radio hits but "Bulletproof Heart" wasn't. Despite being the second song on Danger Days, this utterly soaring pop-rock song has been criminally underrated since its release. MCR's 2002 debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, is largely regarded as their weakest album.
The energy and technicality of their later material is there, but many of the songs feel rather directionless and indistinguishable from what contemporaries like The Used and Thrice were doing at the same time. However, the dramatic ambition on a song like "Demolition Lovers" reeks of staying power. The six-minute closer sidewinds through half-a-dozen movements—a moody intro, frenetic verses, a breathless bridge, a metallic guitar solo and a snarling gang-chorus—before it crashes to a sudden halt. It's a disorienting first stab at the type of compositional sagas they'd master on later recordings, but it's absolutely brimming with potential. You could also say it's about teen violence, which I think the song was originally written about. I feel that mcr is trying to say it's better to wear dark clothes and not fit in and scare people, than to actually be violent because no one gets hurt.
Music video"Teenagers" on YouTube"Teenagers" is the fourth and final single and the eleventh track from My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade . It was the third United States single from the album, but the fourth released in the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Australia and Canada. "On my worst days, it made me feel like I wasn't alone and reminded me there are people out there that care and want me around." — Jackie S.
"Paramore has always been a band I connected with over the years, especially when it came to my mental health and emotional state. Hayley, the lead singer, and I are the same age and I always felt like she was going through the same things as me, even now. Their albums will always be ones I remember and go back to." — Whitney F. This song even 20 years later is true; the scars remain in my heart, mind and skin." — Erin J. This is refering to all the adults who don't feel that we, the teenagers in black, are good enough to be the next generation of America. They're gonna 'clean up our looks', get us out of black, and lie to us to try to get us to be the definition of 'normal.' 'To make a citizen out of you' They are trying to get us to be more like them, to make us like they are && a citizen should be.
"Because the drugs never work, they gonna give you a smirk, because they got methods of keeping you clean" Meaning that the drugs really don't help, and the adults can just tighten the chain anywho, "methods of keeping you clean". The band looked completely different, sounded different, and the video summed up a whole album that nobody would ever expect. The director had worked with such artists as Green Day and Nirvanna. And also a sleeved version that contains lyrics, and a picture of the band with the characters of the album. Demolition Lovers is a microcosm of MCR's ambition and vision.
Destroya might be the only song on MCR's final album that would have fit on I Brought You My Bullets just as comfortably. On an album that dialled down the trademark aggression by several notches, Destroya had the kind of defiant kicking and screaming that first lured fans who were at peak-hormonal imbalance when Bullets and Three Cheers were released. My Chemical Romance fans, myself included, know these lyrics all too well. The band released their first hit single "I'm Not Okay " off their second album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, during Myspace's peak popularity in 2004. In these videos a bunch of teens are asked to give their opinion on song lyrics without being told the name of the song or the artist. You heard it right, you can now also see teens react to some My Chemical Romance lyrics on the new react channel.
The channel, under the broadcasting of the fine bros, is known for it's react video's in which they let teens, elders, kids and youtubers react to all sorts of stuff, including the series they call 'lyrics breakdown'. Another example of how cinema has played a huge part in the MCR story, 'The Ghost Of You' is a hard watch. As dark, demonic and delicious as the song's subject matter, MCR's first ever music video takes plenty of cues from cinema's long-standing relationship with horror.
Shaky camerawork, ghostly shadows and nods to classics of the vampire genre 'Dracula' and 'Nosferatu' thrown in for good measure - this is a snapshot of a band with a taste for the theatric from the get-go. It's raw, real and the start of something very special indeed. Little did these metalheads know, guitarist Ray Toro frequently expresses his love for heavy metal and you can hear it resounding in his playing style. In fact, it was his playing songs from Ozzy's Bark At The Moon that helped jar the band out of a dark point when they were living at the Paramour. Gerard had overheard him playing those songs, slower and darker-sounding, alone, and it broke his heart knowing Toro truly wanted to be playing their music. Eventually, they sat down together and started writing again.
Paper The Daily Mail set off a worldwide outrage among fans when they began railing against "the cult of emo," going as far as to blame My Chemical Romance, who staunchly rejected the label, for a specific young woman's suicide. Fans gathered in London to protest the scapegoating, the band lead "Fuck the Daily Mail! " chants at music festivals, and eventually the shitrag shut up about it. The short film follows a young man wearing a leather cloak, who begins by attempting to summon the band using a Ouija board. From there, he's chased by creepy masked figures through doors marked with the band's new symbols, stumbling upon characters familiar from music videos and albums past. The Teenagers song lyrics start with "They're gonna clean up your looks with all the lies in the books To make a citizen out of you".
The heroes behind the Teenagers song must be really appreciated and also thanked for giving us such a beautiful composition. The Teenagers song lyrics was written by Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro & Bob Bryar. Although MCR emerged from New Jersey's underground hardcore scene and Metallica were a noted influence on their tastes, they're rarely commended for how downright nasty and heavy their music can be. I Brought You My Bullets… is stuffed with metalcore guitar parts, and Way screams frequently throughout their first two records, but the band are still most commonly described as a pop-punk group. They're by no means a metal band, but the ballistic side they explore in a song like "Hang 'Em High" shouldn't be undervalued.
This Three Cheers cut begins with a spaghetti western whistle before nosediving into hellish shrieks and pulverizing post-hardcore riffs. Way's vocal performances on this album are exceptionally deranged, and on this track in particular, his wavering yelp is so thrillingly unhinged. For two-and-a-half minutes, the band sound like they're going to fly off the rails and rather than regain their footing, they just let themselves wreck into a pile of cacophonous noise. It's difficult to underrate anything on an album as celebrated as The Black Parade, one of the most beloved rock records of the 21st century.
However, "Disenchanted" is definitely the most overlooked of the album's three ballads. It's one of their most poignant artistic statements. According to ignorant adults, all teenagers are either violent, vicious, or drug addicts.
When they see teens that don't fit these prejudgements [goths, emos, etc.] they don't know how to respond, except to try and fit them into one of those categories. That's what the line "darken your clothes/ i'll strike a violent pose/ maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me" is about. When you don't understand something, you stay away from it- fear of the unknown. Watch the official music video for Teenagers by My Chemical Romance from the album May Death Never Stop You.
The music video opens with an almost shot-for-shot tribute to the first scene of Pink Floyd's film The Wall. Further links to The Wall are seen when cheerleaders don gas masks in a similar manner to the masks worn by the teenaged and young adult fans in the film. The world felt heavy on my shoulders and most days I forced myself to get out of bed.
I did keep going though because… the world keeps spinning. Holding on to the darkness didn't stop that from happening. A decade later and I still need this reminder sometimes." — Samantha S. "I was ready to end it all, and then it started playing and I just listened to the words and I thought to myself that I'll be missing out on good things in life and people will be missing me." — Dani H.
