Is My Chemical Romance Popular?

errrr i think they're kind of popular like i mean they're attracting lots of teenies and stuff who are what i think the "wrong type of fans" as they're only sticking to the band because a member(s) is hot.
I think being popular can result in some good things and some bad things
Good things:
1) They get to play incredible, beautiful arena shows with fireworks and confetti
2) They have more money to spend on merch, videos and making all of gerards ideas become reality (like the whole black parade alter egos) etc
3) They have reached out to more fans and helped them through difficult times
4) They have opportunities to headline legendary festivals
5) The guys in mcr's dreams are coming true =]
Theres some other stuff but my mind has gone completely blank so don't yell at me.

Bad Things:
1) They hardly play small club shows anymore and when they do the tickets will sell out so fast that loads of fans will probably miss out =/
2) Its harder to meet the band (they'll come out later due to the larger amount of fans within the arena) (can they hug fans anymore? i've heard that they cant =[)
3) we have to put up with teenies claiming to be mcr's no. 1 fan when they only have downloaded the black parade album and they don't know Bullets exists...
4) they're constantly in the media which may annoy a lot of people and get fed up with them....

I think for their next album i'd prefer if they got a little less popular so maybe some of the newer fans got the opportunity to see them in a smaller shows because that is an amazing experiance and one which i'll always treasure =]

i think its a good thing.
even though they might not be playing small clubs and stuff
but they still care a lot about the fans from the beghining

Of course they are popular, who doesn't love them? :] Not everyone might love them for the same reasons, but who's to say there is a RIGHT reason to love them, and a WRONG reason to love them? People have different ways of connecting and identifying with a band, be it by their music, or their personality, their vision, or even their looks. We're all entitled to our own opinions.

For me, I simply don't care if they are popular or not. I don't choose my music discriminately, based on whether it is liked by others or not. Music isn't supposed to work like that. It isn't like fashion, here one day and gone the other. I don't purposely listen only one type of music either. What matters the most to me is that their music speaks to me, and I can listen to their music and FEEL something, a kind of connection.

So whether MCR was completely unknown, or constantly in the media, I would still love them.

Honey it's an interesting question (as in i've never come across one quite like it on INO), but i can only answer with 3 words: I Don't Care.

really, because i know they're doing smthing good for me, and i hope the same for all fans out there. i certainly hope they've made a positive change in ur life too. wherever u are.

love is unconditional and unanalysing. love is pure and unfettered. the fucking hippies were right.

Well I'm not going to lie - had I known the band was this popular at the time I discovered them, I might not have given them a chance, because I tend to ignore what everyone likes - it's just a quirk I have. I would have waited until the furor died down before checking them out. Thank God it didn't happen that way, because My Chem ultimately helped me to heal from my husband's death from cancer, as some of you may know.

I think the question of My Chem's popularity being a good thing or a bad thing - it's bittersweet. The goal of this band was always to get the message out to as many people as possible. I think one of the reasons that G is now saying that they are not focusing on the message so much anymore is twofold really:

First and foremost, they feel that they have accomplished their goal of spreading it far and wide, and second, the pressure to always have one is weighing on them too much and they want to go back to just putting on a great show and having fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't see why fans begrudge them this. Haven't they said enough? Just because they don't repeat themselves every single show anymore doesn't mean they don't still feel that way. People's core values do NOT change, and it takes a bit of maturity to realize this.

I do think the issue of teenies and/or crazy fans is a problem. I think it's what caused the band to feel removed from the fanbase, and is to blame for them not wanting to hug fans anymore (Exhibit A - G's rumoured death threats, Exhibit B - Ray getting jumped on in Malaysia, just to cite two examples.) It does drag the intelligence level of the fanbase down a bit, which is unfortunate, but I also believe it's temporary.

The boys are attempting to return to their roots right now while simultaneously incorporating their current, more mature life experiences into the mix, and even the older fans should be satisfied with this.

At the end of the day, now that MCR is who they are to me, nothing will shake that. They would have to do or say something really outrageous to cause such a thing, and even that, it'd have to be all five of them, so I'm not too worried about that occurring.

The boys busted their asses to get where they are now, and they still haven't changed. When is the last time you saw one of them zipping down the road in a lamborghini, or living in gated estates, or flying around in private jets, or talking about their personal bottom lines? Never, right? So anyone who is concerned that they've changed can stop worrying - they haven't now, and they never will. And G hasn't gone back to drugs/drinking, whatever, either, I can promise you that. You can still tell the difference between then and now, very easily. He'd also have hit the wall in six months if he were still at it - because he's an addict. When he told you that he took his responsibility to his bandmates and fans (and now his wife) seriously, he meant it.

Bottom line? It's annoying that My Chem are being trivialized a bit in the media, but they also thrive on adversity, so it all works out in the end.

Wow, that wound up being an essay and a half LOL Sorry about that.

Dunno why, but i feel bittersweet after reading keve'sLadyofSorrows' post. Just maybe realised how far the band has come and all the good & bad stuff thats happened in btwn. I would really really like a hugn from thm tho. And i promise I wouldnt be a teeny abt it (at least as much as i can help it). and i won't grope them either.

i dont actually think they are removed from the fanbase. maybe at one point they were a bit jaded as to what had become of the whole thing....but i think on the whole they support as we support them and u can still feel their love during a live show. (sorry if that sounds corny)

i hate the whole phenomenon of bands losing their cred once they become famous or 'mainstream'. To use an analogy, did JK Rowling become a worse writer after H Potter hit no. 1? Does an artist/musician/whatever become less talented or productive once fame hits? i'm sure some do. But not enough, IMHO, to set such a sweeping stereotype.

Mychem is as good as they've ever been. ifr u dont like where they're going musical-wise, fine. every1 is entitled to an opinion; every1 is entitled to say "i like this" and "I don't dig that." Just don't discredit the boys for doing well and being a massive success.

A HUUUUUUUUUGGE HUG TO FRANK, GERARD, MIKEY, RAY AND BOB

on my school..
uhh no..

i think its all good because when you see them you get the amazing arena shows and their message is being spread out more.
but since the black parade came out , i felt some people were only getting into them because it was 'cool' to like them and nothing else, like when WTTBP came out everyone was spazzing about it because it was number 1 in the charts and it was all the rage. but now, MCR are considered as sell outs and if you love MCR you are considered an emo or a wierdo or a poser.
and also, i hate the way the media have lumped them as emo like when you see magazine articles about MCR, its almost certain that the article will start with something like 'emo superstars, my chemical romance...'
and its not as if they've admitted to be an emo band, they have made it pretty clear they are not, in any shape or form, emo.
anyway, those things don't bother me too much, as long as they are still the band i know and love i am more than happy.

At my school, me and my friend Katie are the only real fans.

You see kids walking around with MCR shirts when you know that they only know one or two songs. I think MCR is popular, but not in the way that they would have exactly liked, I don't think.

I promise you, you ask a die-hard fan, like, the drummer's name (and nobody ever knows the drummer's name...poor Bob.) and they know it right off the bat.

You ask one of those teenies who've only heard one or two, they say something random like "Uhh...Zack?"

I think that them being popular is horrible, not so much for them but for the fans, i mean like freaking everyone who listens to the radio and heres one fucking song by them calls themself a fan. And idk with them being popular of course its like harder to meet them and stuff and since their shows are so big they are not as intimate.

lol i say like to much dont i. lol

At my school, most people know them. It's kind of good and bad because you get other peoples opinions. And for those people who know them, and think their cool only know their hit songs (teenagers or helena or welcome to the black parade) or gerards hair. They don't know that mcr have saved so many lives. I would prefer mcr to be less popular because no one would really question them. The good and bad things of them being popular/unpopular is that usually the jugdmental people make rude comments and crap and mcr fans get into fights with them.

thats just my opinion though.

To me, I honestly don't think it's that much of a big deal that they're popular. They are popular because they are good, and that isn't a bad thing. It's moreoverly how other people will react to it, like how some people don't like them anymore because they've changed. Quote - Unquote.

As what Collision Kiss said, I don't care. They are a good band, and if people want to commercialize them, it's not going to make them less of a good band.

They are popular, but not to the extent that it makes them grow an ego or what have you. It's a good thing and a bad thing, only depending on the people. To them, it's just another stage in being My Chemical Romance.

The Joker:

2) Its harder to meet the band (they'll come out later due to the larger amount of fans within the arena) (can they hug fans anymore? i've heard that they cant =[)

omg are you serious? where did you hear that?

Yes i think they are VERY popular and,
Yes i think its a good thing i mean when you like a band you really want the best for them right? and the more popular they are the more demand there is on the band therefor they would travle to more parts of the world and stay longer DUE to popular demand.Not all fans are into them for the wrong resons like i started listening to them because i heard WTTBP and now i think that is one of their worst albums(still good but not best Three cheers for sweet revenge baby) and its popular to listen to that kind of music now sadly because when one genre of music is popular its harder for newer up comeing bands with a diferent singing style to get a record lable thats why alot of great bands are underground (and when i say underground i mean they are under there own record lable and dont do big gigs) but yeah i don't know about other countrys but in ireland they are masive and you arn't anyone if you dont know who MCR are. And i tell ya its scary when your walking around and if you dont have black hair or an emo fringe you get the crap beaten out of you! and the taunts and looks are extreemly intimidateing.

And another thing if they wern't popular their merchandise wouldn't be redily available they wouldn't do gigs outside their hometown or outskirts and you probably wouldn't know much about them. In my opinion if you walk into a Cd shop and you can find their albums easily for about €/$/£ 20
than they are popular as long as they hit the radio/mainstreem thats it their popular or pop and i don't see what the problem with being called and emo is i mean who cares! I mean what ever happend to that qoute from gerard whats hisface "don't take anyones shit!" or whatever i couldnt care less about them themselves isnt it really about the music? if your serious about the band it gets boreing! joke about them! like most of my mates hate them with and un dieing passion and i sit there and laugh my ass off at what they are saying about them! Or if i start humming the tune to this is the best day ever someone will say "haha you emo fag!So you still come with the rest of us to the cinema???" see noone cares! and if you want people to stop "bullying" you just play along like if they say "ew mcr are queer!" you say "yeah i know but arent they just so stupidly serious you just want to puch them in the face??"