But the band has revealed that arguably its most famous song was almost never heard…

When it came to producing their third studio album, MCR almost cut the signature track after lead singer Gerard Way revealed that he struggled to connect to it personally. 

“Any time it kind of got brought up, especially by my AR, Craig Aaronson, I would just kind of shoo him away about it and be like, ‘Yeah, that song’s about nothing. I’m not interested in that one,’” he told Apple Music 1 host, Travis Mills. 

Way explained that although the band liked the song, it wasn’t feeling right. Until they came at it from a different perspective. 

“We didn’t want to just give up on the song, so then I started to bring the concept into the musical side of things and we started breaking the song and reconstructing it,” explained Way. 

The process led to the songwriter creating the song’s famous opening melody. “Once we re-approached it from the perspective of starting with a completely new introduction and a new way to start the song, it helped us fix the rest of it.”

“Welcome to the Black Parade” was eventually released as the lead single from The Black Parade and we’re all richer for it. 

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Way is the creator of the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. Way wrote the comic books that the series is based on and now has his own fan base for his written work.

When The Umbrella Academy landed on Netflix, it gained a lot of attention among My Chemical Romance Fans (MCR), who knew Way as the band’s singer. As it turns out, comic book writing has always been Way’s calling.

“A lot of people at the time, right before Umbrella came out, knew me as a singer in a band,” he shared at Virtual Comic-Con.

“But I had this long history with comics, and kind of making my own and getting published at 15 and using my grandmother’s typewriter. But then I went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and my major was cartooning. So I had all these comic book classes, and in my senior year I interned at DC – I interned there for like a year.”

Way still had a passion for music and MCR was his creation. He reflected on the band’s rise to fame: “This band that I had started, really started to take off. Then all of us quit our jobs and we get in the van and we just start touring.”

Season two of The Umbrella Academy will premier on Netflix July 31st.

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But the band has revealed that arguably its most famous song was almost never heard…

When it came to producing their third studio album, MCR almost cut the signature track after lead singer Gerard Way revealed that he struggled to connect to it personally. 

“Any time it kind of got brought up, especially by my AR, Craig Aaronson, I would just kind of shoo him away about it and be like, ‘Yeah, that song’s about nothing. I’m not interested in that one,’” he told Apple Music 1 host, Travis Mills. 

Way explained that although the band liked the song, it wasn’t feeling right. Until they came at it from a different perspective. 

“We didn’t want to just give up on the song, so then I started to bring the concept into the musical side of things and we started breaking the song and reconstructing it,” explained Way. 

The process led to the songwriter creating the song’s famous opening melody. “Once we re-approached it from the perspective of starting with a completely new introduction and a new way to start the song, it helped us fix the rest of it.”

“Welcome to the Black Parade” was eventually released as the lead single from The Black Parade and we’re all richer for it. 

The post My Chemical Romance Almost Didn’t Release Their Most Famous Song appeared first on EverydayKoala.

Way is the creator of the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. Way wrote the comic books that the series is based on and now has his own fan base for his written work.

When The Umbrella Academy landed on Netflix, it gained a lot of attention among My Chemical Romance Fans (MCR), who knew Way as the band’s singer. As it turns out, comic book writing has always been Way’s calling.

“A lot of people at the time, right before Umbrella came out, knew me as a singer in a band,” he shared at Virtual Comic-Con.

“But I had this long history with comics, and kind of making my own and getting published at 15 and using my grandmother’s typewriter. But then I went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and my major was cartooning. So I had all these comic book classes, and in my senior year I interned at DC – I interned there for like a year.”

Way still had a passion for music and MCR was his creation. He reflected on the band’s rise to fame: “This band that I had started, really started to take off. Then all of us quit our jobs and we get in the van and we just start touring.”

Season two of The Umbrella Academy will premier on Netflix July 31st.

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