![]() ![]() Both singers praise the beauty of the African woman and only want 24 hours to show their love to her. Today, the song represents not only a turning point for My Chemical Romance and emo on a commercial level, but it’s emblematic of the band, imbued with the drama, grief and energy that make them so enduring.Davido scores an international collaboration with Jamaican Dancehall superstar Popcaan, we told you this single was coming some days ago and its finally here.ĭavido and Popcaan share their Story and talk about Snapchat stories. They represent a standout moment in the band’s discography and story, winning the band well-deserved awards and their first mainstream crossover moment when the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. While I’m Not Okay (I Promise) is often remembered as the defining track of Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, Helena and its accompanying video are inextricable from the My Chemical Romance canon. Mourners dance around the pallbearers with red and black umbrellas, the church steps slick with a rainstorm neither the director nor band were apparently anticipating. Instead, the bulk of the lifting fell to his bandmates and a random fan. Small bit of trivia: Frank Iero once revealed that the coffin isn’t actually resting on his shoulders as they leave the church - he’s 5’4” and came up a little short. With Helena finally, actually dead, mourners and the band (joined by some lucky fans) carry Helena’s coffin out of the church into the rain for possibly the most iconic rain-soaked church scene since Guns N’ Roses November Rain. She spins before falling back into her coffin, finally ready to enter the afterlife. Her red and black-rimmed eyes snap open, her pale face comes to life and she slips her black ballet flat-clad feet out of the coffin to dance jerkily through the pews, gently touching mourners and grabbing the camera to join her. In the most memorable moment of the video, one that helped to canonise My Chemical Romance as the kings of emo, Phillips springs back to life. Interspersed with shots of the band playing, here My Chemical Romance toy with goth influences, showing that as always everything is theirs to play with. Opening with Gerard, gloriously smoky-eyed and dressed fit for a goth funeral in a black shirt and red tie against a backdrop of candles, the video follows the goodbyes to the woman, played by dancer Tracy Phillips.Īs band members pay their respects, Gerard stands at the pulpit to lead mourners into a full death-inspired dance number choreographed by Michael Rooney. Directed by Marc Webb (also responsible for war epic The Ghost Of You) and shot at a church in Los Angeles, the story moves away from the real-life tragedy to tell the story of a young girl who died suddenly. ![]() While Helena stands the test of time as a standalone track, its video for many will immediately come to mind. On Helena, he runs the range from spooky low vocals to screamed agony, and it only makes it that much stronger. The frontman’s vocal strengths have always been in his ability to manipulate his voice, to make it as weird or as heavy with feeling as the song requires. A refrain of “ so long and goodnight” sees Way attempting to lay his grandmother and his pain and regrets to rest. While some of that self-flagellation is woven through Helena and felt reverberating through the lyrics, it’s buried under the very real sorrow and grief. I wasn’t confident about anything, I was just depressed.” When I quit I could see myself clearly and I wasn’t sure how much I liked it. “I also think losing my grandmother and the drinking were probably connected. Her death had a grave impact on the brothers, and in the same interview Gerard connected his later serious issues with alcohol to her death. ![]()
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