Well, color my face red. After sheepishly admitting my fandom for a couple of their singles last year, youthful New Jersey emo-pop-punk-pseud-goth-whatever band, My Chemical Romance have unveiled their follow up album, The Black Parade. To be fair, I've only heard the first single, "Welcome to the Black Parade," but remember all those nice things I said about them back then? Well, I take'em all back. MCR have devolved into a schlocky, self-important embarassment, specializing in the sort of cloying, indulgent histrionics that even Meat Loaf wouldn't touch. In other words, so much for them.
That all said, the video for said single was bugging for me for the longest time, because I couldn't place what it reminded me of, until it finally occurred to me. The video for "Welcome to the Black Parade" looks damn similar to the video for "The War Song" (a.k.a "War is stupid/and People are Stupid...") by ye olde Culture Club. See below:
A still from "The War Song"....
A still from "Welcome to the Black Parade"...
Shocking, ain't it? Incidentally, I have no point to prove here (as is probably obvious). Though I should also point out that Madonna's strenuously lamentable video for "American Life" also seemed to unwittingly swipe elements -- notably the military fashion show motif -- from "The War Song" (inarguably Culture Club's darkest hour).
What do these three songs all have in common? THEY ALL SUCK, of course.
Have at me, My Chem zealots!
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