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cmtrydrve · 4 years

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hey ! my name’s link , i go by he/they pronouns , am 21+ & live in the cst timezone ! my only personality trait is being a bts , sment & girl groups enthusiast . i’m an aries sun with a pisces moon , which means i can be aggro , am always loud & obnoxious , but am a secretly sensitive softy , so plz be nice to me !!! this is my child , mikey , who’s stuck in 2006 & never grew out of his emo phase ( take that , mom ! ) . he’s also an aries , because my jjks always end up like that . hopefully , you’ll love him as much as i already do ! under the cut , you’ll find some misc . info & wanted connections . here are links to his dossier page & his pinterest board , which will hopefully give you some deeper insight . i’m excited to be here & write with you all ! like this if you’d like to plot & i’ll fly to your ims , but also feel free to add me on d*scord ( it’s easier for me as well ) : no brain only loving bts#6669 !

— jeon jungkook. he/they. demiboy. | was that michael “mikey” kwon i just saw in the hideaway lobby ? i hear the twenty-two year old spends most of their time working as a record store clerk / studying communications , but i’ve always just seen them dyeing their hair different colors with kool-aid . they live in 3c and i often see them in the halls. they always give me a vibe of getting into arguments online , an entirely black wardrobe and drinking six cups of coffee to make it through the day .

misc . info :

his parents are both very hip artists who met & fell in love while attending art school. they’re both very modern kind of parents, which meant that mikey grew up around a lot of self-expression (& being told to try it for himself), paint everywhere & pot.

growing up, he was allowed to paint his walls & even ceiling however he pleased & it instilled a love of creativity in him. his parents still have paintings he did as a child hanging up on their walls & fridge. even now, he still draws casually, though it was always a hobby for him & not his actual passion.

his parents are extremely caring & understanding. as a teenager, they allowed him to go out & party & always made sure to get him home safely. mikey genuinely can not remember a single time they ever yelled at him even when he fucked up massively. so he tries his best to make sure they’re happy & taken care of. but they’re adamant in supporting whatever mikey wants to do.

they were both the alternative types, which meant that rock music filled their home. mikey was familiar with classic rock from a young age & the sounds of fleetwood mac & other similar bands fills him with a warmth that can only be attained from childhood nostalgia.

his first taste of love came at the age of seven. his parents always brought home new albums to listen to & his dad purchased three cheers for sweet revenge by my chemical romance. while the screaming & raging instruments could have been too much for anyone else his age, mikey embraced it fully.

it ignited an adoration for the genre as a whole & soon enough, his parents were bringing home various emo music albums to sate the always dramatic & over-reacting mikey. for christmas, he received mcr’s discography (at the time, just two albums) on vinyl, which he still has hanged proudly on his wall as an adult.

he owns every variation of every mcr album now. vinyl, cd, cassettes. he even collects the japanese versions because he likes the way they’re designed.

he dropped the name mike / michael because of mikey way & he refuses to answer to anything else.

even though it’s largely part of “cringe culture” now (which mikey refuses to participate in), he loves hot topic & goes there whenever he can. his closet is full of band tees & he has a drawer filled with those spiky belts, bracelets & pants with the suspenders from his teenage years.

he’s been dyeing his hair regularly since he was twelve. he’s had every color under the sun. this is what his hair currently looks like but he dyes the highlights with kool-aid, so the color is always changing.

he has a nostril piercing & would probably get more done if someone so much as implied that he should.

he has a mcr stan twitter account & he gets into fights with everyone he decides has a wrong opinion. he’s been suspended multiple times for being too aggressive online, but he always comes back. he also has a tumblr account but he just uses it to reblog pictures of gerard way (his bias KJHFDKJ).

he works at a record store & goes to school for communications. he hopes to either be a radio dj or podcast host. he wants to get paid to talk about how much he loves music either way. but he loves his current job because he gets to talk about music all day and recommend albums to people. also it’s helpful in perfecting his own vinyl collection.

yes, he cried the day mcr broke up & yes he bought tickets to all their reunion shows. he took the day off when the tickets went on sale & his boss was understanding, knowing how much he loves the band.

he’s extremely impulsive. if you tell him to do anything, he more than likely will. he has a lot of stupid scribbled tattoos on him for this reason, especially on his hands.

while he doesn’t mind appearing masculine & even embraces it, he doesn’t fully align with being a man. he started identifying as nonbinary in his teens, but has never felt 100% a man his whole life. he’s fine with both he or they pronouns for the most part, though he does have his preferences day to day. he introduces himself as nonbinary so it’s not a secret & everyone who interacts with him is aware.

he’s kind of a party animal. he’s that loud person who drinks too much & ends up blacked out on the floor.

he gets in trouble a lot, because he plays music very loudly at both his workplace & his apartment. but he’s of the opinion that if music is too loud for you then you’re just too old.

he’s aggressive & very arrogant. he will fight you about anything & everything. he just likes to argue & he thinks he’s right about everything.

in typical aries fashion, he loves to flirt & be flirted with. he just adores attention & seeks out affection where he can find it. he gets crushes really easily & pursues aggressively (he’s extremely charming & good at making people feel good about themselves), but he gets bored when he actually obtains the person he desires. he’s never really seriously dated, but has had over a billion crushes in his lifetime.

thought dramatic & annoying most of the time, he’s also very loyal & has a good heart. if you’re in his circle of people he likes, then he’ll do anything for you point blank. he always tells his friends that he’d die for him & he means it.

while he tries to appear confident, he has secret insecurities stemming from being the middle child. he has issues with feeling like he’s not good enough or thinks he’s unnoticed by everyone, so he acts up by being dramatic.

he drinks A LOT of coffee, so he’s pretty much always bouncing off the walls.

he’s extremely pansexual & loud about it. if you’ve known him for longer than five minutes then you’ll find out how he wishes he could smash gerard way specifically in the helena mv to smithereens.

he very casually knows how to play guitar. he’s that person who plays wonderwall at every party.

while he’s not a fan of pop music, he knows most girl group dances & can do them well.

wanted connections :

exes (any gender. it will more than likely be something casual, like a few months or less, but we can discuss the timeline! also it can be messy or friendly. extra points if there’s lingering feelings!)

hookups / fwbs (any gender. singular experiences or regular type things)

childhood plots for those who’ve lived in seattle (childhood friends, first kisses / crushes, all that good stuff)

flirtationships that don’t go anywhere

one-sided crushes (don’t mind who has the feelings!)

mutual pining but they’re both idiots & have no idea

party buddies (can be drinking &/or smoking). emo music buddies. netflix buddies. any of these can be combined.

enemies???? (if we can decide on a suitable plot. or enemies with benefits :smirk:)

someone who knows of mikey from his stan twitter but doesn’t realize it’s him & talks shit openly about the asshole who runs the account in front of him.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, someone who he flirts with in the dms & they plan to meet up after realizing they live in the same apartment building.

tinder date (it can go well or not)

frequent customers (customers he flirts with or can’t stand because they just loiter or gets into fights with because they have bad taste in music

someone who takes advantage of mikey being willing to do anything he’s dared to do. make him do all the stupid shit he shouldn’t be doing, whether it’s getting tattoos / piercings or anything dangerous or just idiotic.

you’re sick of this asshole blasting music late at night & go to yell at him for it but oops he’s actually attractive (or you actually can’t stand him, whichever GKDHFGJFKD).

i have a huge tag full of plots i’d love to do on my rp spam blog. not all of them will be fitting for mikey but just ask me & we can try to change some elements or something!

literally anything you can think of i’m probably down for it!

#hide:intro #◟ * 𝟎𝟏𝟑. 𝑔𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑧 › OUT OF CHARACTER #not me being ready on time for once wow

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Album Review by Bradley Christensen My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade Record Label: Reprise Records Release Date: October 23 2006

The moment anyone calls a band / artist “overrated,” people might automatically assume that band / artist is bad. That’s not always the case, because good bands can be overrated, too. One of my favorite bands is The Beatles, but I wouldn’t argue with anyone that said they were overrated, but there’s an understandable reason for that. They’re one of the most influential, important, and unique acts in the history of music. People still talk about them a lot, as well as still being hyped up so much (even in the forty-six years after their unfortunate breakup), because no one sounded like them. Hell, The Beatles were a band that introduced the world to rock and roll, but that’s the thing. They’re not the only band that did that. The Beatles are one of the bigger ones, if not the biggest band that came out of the early to mid-60s, and it makes sense why they’re talking about all the time (even to this day). I won’t deny they’re an overrated band, especially if you’re not a fan, because you might not get why they’re so popular or acclaimed by fans and critics alike, but that doesn’t mean they’re inherently bad. It’s the same thing with “generic,” which is somehow a bad word that music fans thinks means something worse than it really is. Just as there are more lame generic bands than thee are great ones, there are much more lame overrated bands than there are good / great ones, because most people think of the word “overrated” as being some kind of bad word. The Beatles are an overrated band, like I said, but they’re great. I mean, I know that’s a hugely cliché thing to say, because they’re one of the biggest bands of all time, but you can’t help what you like / love, right? The point for all of this, though, was to cushion the blow of what I’m about to say. I wanted to use one of my favorite bands as an example to highlight this, but fans of another band won’t like what I’m going to say in a second.

My Chemical Romance, a defining emo / alt-rock band from the early to mid-00s, is another incredibly overrated band. Before all the fans of this band get their pitchforks and torches ready to swarm my home, MCR is a good band. Hell, the album that I’ll be talking about today, 2006’s The Black Parade, is their magnum opus. This was my introduction to the band, even though I’m not quite sure when I listened to the album (it might have been around when it came out, or a year later, I can’t recall exactly), and 12-year-old me loved this record. I can’t say that I have same level of nostalgia as I do with something like Fall Out Boy’s Infinity On High, nor is this LP one of my all time favorites, but it’s an album that I am very nostalgic towards, and I have a lot of emotional attachment to this LP. The last time I reviewed this album, which was a few years ago, I believe, I didn’t really like it all that much, and it didn’t hold up as well as I remembered, but I let one thing cloud my judgement there – the fanbase. Before I get into the album itself, My Chemical Romance shares a lot in common with The Beatles. Both bands are influential, important, and rather timeless, but not on the same scale. The Beatles are influential to music as a whole, but MCR is influential in terms of the emo / post-hardcore / alt-rock scene. They’re one of the biggest bands that got mainstream success, and similar to The Beatles, that’s why they’re talked about so much, but what does the fanbase of MCR have to do with all of this? Well, the fanbase of MCR is a rabid one. The fans of this band are very, very passionate about them, but that’s very much a double-edged sword. Their fans love them, and they’ll go to great lengths to support them, but the second that someone voices their distaste or dislike of them, their fans swarm them, essentially offended that someone doesn’t think MCR is the best band of all time.

That’s why I think they’ve overrated, folks – their fans think they’re the best band of all time, but that’s just not the truth. If you think so, that’s totally fine, because we all have the right to our opinions, but don’t get upset if someone thinks differently. Beatles fans are guilty of that, too, believe me, but I’m talking about MCR here. I’ve let the fanbase cloud my judgement, especially the first couple of times that I’ve tried to get into The Black Parade after I let the album sit for many years, but I decided to dust it off yet again, because I’ve been listening to other albums in this vein. It all started with picking up a signed copy of Aiden’s debut LP, Our Gang’s Dark Oath, and I decided to revisit a bunch of albums in this vein that I used to love back in the day, as well as pick up some albums that I never got around to from this scene. It’s been a fun ride, but how does The Black Parade hold up after all these years? Looking past their rabid and annoying fanbase that won’t shut up about how they broke up more than four years ago, The Black Parade is still a classic in the scene that it was released into. This isn’t one of my all time favorite albums, but it’s a damn great one, nonetheless. A lot of bands in this scene, especially in the early to mid-00s, sound very dated, bland, and cringy now, because they compiled every cliché that this type of music had. I won’t pretend that The Black Parade, as well as MCR themselves, isn’t a dated album, because they’re one of the forefathers of the modern emo sound / genre, but it’s one of those albums that’s dated in a good, fun, and interesting way. Vocalist Gerard Way is one hell of a vocalist, the lyrics are very well-written, and the sound is very over the top, theatrical, and entertaining.

Starting with Gerard Way, I can’t say he’s an amazing vocalist, but I was just watching a video from The Nostalgia Critic that begged the question of whether or not bad singers in movies should be dubbed with a better singer. He brought up a good point, though, when he talked about it’s fine to keep a bad singer’s voice in a movie when they have an entertaining performance that sucks you into the song. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s song in Moana is the song he used, since Johnson is not a good singer, but he’s got a good voice. Those two things are not exclusive, and that’s sort of how I feel about Way, but he’s still a good singer. He’s not the best singer, or anything like that, but he brings what he needs to on this record – he’s over the top, theatrical, and emotional. He does exactly what he needs to here, and I think that’s why so many people connect with him as a vocalist. Hell, I think that’s why people connect with him as a lyricist, too, because his lyrics are the same way. Some of the lyrics on this record are dated, cringy, and whiny, but there are some poignant, interesting, and poetic moments, too. Hell, I still connect with certain songs, even after the eleven years this album’s been out. A song like “I Don’t Love You Anymore” still connects with me, because I’ve been there a million times over, but the song “Teenagers” makes me laugh, just with how silly, over the top, and ironic its lyrics are (the song is about how teenagers frighten Way, but most of his fanbase are teenagers, so did he just insult most of his fanbase, or is the song meant to be tongue-in-cheek?). One major issue that I’ve always had with this album is that its concept doesn’t really do much for me. I don’t even know what it’s really about, because it’s very confusing, all over the place, and muddled, but the songs themselves are great, minus a couple that don’t do anything for me.

If My Chemical Romance got huge in the mainstream (most people were introduced to this scene, as well as the alternative / emo style, through MCR and bands like them), would this LP, or even their entire discography be as well revered? Would they have as big of a fanbase as they do? I don’t know, honestly. It would be strange to live in some biazzro world where MCR isn’t the powerhouse that they are, but I wonder if their success and longevity has to do with their success and fanbase, not necessarily because is that influential or amazing. For instance, I’ve been really into the band Aiden, especially their first three albums, and this band should have gotten a lot bigger than they did (considering they have a very similar sound to MCR), but why did they get shafted instead? It could be that they were a bit “heavier,” but The Black Parade is still a great album, no matter what. It’s just that MCR is very overrated to me. This LP is great, and I love it, but the scene builds this band up to be the most important, influential, and mindblowing band. At least I could understand that The Beatles helped to influence and shape rock and roll, as well as psychedelic music, but MCR didn’t do nearly as much. It doesn’t help that The Black Parade is also a bit dated, and it really sounds like a product of its time. In that respect, though, it’s a good thing, because this album defined the mid-00s emo / alt-rock movement. It’s an album that propelled this style of music into the mainstream, even if it was for a brief few years, but in the years since then, bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Of Mice & Men, and Sleeping With Sirens have been able to get high-charting albums. If you think about it, you can thank MCR for that, because The Black Parade is one of the first of these bands / albums to get that attention. If you ever feel like getting a little nostalgic, feelsy, or emo, definitely put on this LP.

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