THE PAPER KINGDOM | MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE'S LOST ALBUM

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  • In this video, I tackle the often forgotten scrapped My Chemical Romance album, The Paper Kingdom.
    **UPDATE! A TRACK HAS LEAKED
    NEW VIDEO COVERING SAID LEAK: • PAPER KINGDOM UPDATE! ...
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  • @blockbustergarbage
    @blockbustergarbage  2 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    wow, we did end up getting new music after all. foundations of decay is an amazing piece of music and sounds like some of the best my chem has put out. i don’t know if i want to continue with youtube, but just wanted to share that i absolutely love the new track!

    • @largemale7821
      @largemale7821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      please continue 😩

    • @ifureaddisugay
      @ifureaddisugay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      if you continue youtube ill let you see your family again

    • @Atumblingblogger
      @Atumblingblogger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      paper kingdom potential leak came out

    • @ifureaddisugay
      @ifureaddisugay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Atumblingblogger where when

    • @ifureaddisugay
      @ifureaddisugay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Atumblingblogger are you trolling or talking about the foundations of decay

  • @임소영-h3x
    @임소영-h3x ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Bullets: I'm dead
    Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge: You're dead
    The Black Parade: We're dead
    Danger Days: We're going to be dead
    Paper Kingdom: Our kids are dead

  • @AnomalySource
    @AnomalySource 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1789

    Darker than black parade. Damn that sounds hard considering black parade was about a man dying of cancer and going to hell

    • @jaythemarsh4725
      @jaythemarsh4725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Yeah but it did end up having a happy ending with the song "Famous Last Words"

    • @Deeegenerate
      @Deeegenerate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@jaythemarsh4725 Well, the ending is sort of ambiguous

    • @ryangoslingsimp
      @ryangoslingsimp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I thought the ending was actually the song Blood?

    • @jaythemarsh4725
      @jaythemarsh4725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@ryangoslingsimp it is but by the looks of it from theories and my own speculation, I see Famous Last Words as The Patient escaping out of Hell and coming back to life, his soul from Hell returning to his body, and then the song "Blood" comes on being some kind of End Credits showing the Patient waking up and causing a fuss in the Hospital because everyone thought he died but somehow woke up and it's just The Patient having a morbid sense of humor of life, singing about blood and other stuff like that while the Doctors go ape shit and crazy figuring out what to do now.
      That's my take on it and by the looks of it quite a few people agree to that as well
      (Hope that makes sense lol 😅)

    • @Deeegenerate
      @Deeegenerate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@jaythemarsh4725 To be honest, I'd never thought about it like that, it's such an interesting take and this comment put a smile on my face XD

  • @xerodelacroix5552
    @xerodelacroix5552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1161

    I mean, Conventional Weapons is basically a lost album.

    • @als_pals
      @als_pals 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      And criminally underrated

    • @jimmygee3219
      @jimmygee3219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      It was but that was the original follow up to Black Parade

    • @xerodelacroix5552
      @xerodelacroix5552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@jimmygee3219 I thought they recorded it alongside Danger Days, and that the Mad Gear EP came from those sessions too. Not sure, it's been a while.

    • @valeriahernandez6076
      @valeriahernandez6076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@xerodelacroix5552 I remember them releasing a statement or something saying they didn’t like weapons which is why it took so long fo their new album to come out. From what I remember they just decided to make a new one and that’s when we got danger days. They also said they if they ever released weapons it meant the end of mcr, they day they released it my best friend told me they would break up soon and then they did.

    • @xerodelacroix5552
      @xerodelacroix5552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@valeriahernandez6076 But they played Make Room!!! at the reunion show and Boy Division was on the setlist as a possible song iirc. So I really don't know what to make of that whole era, honestly.

  • @kimpoirier236
    @kimpoirier236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +507

    The fact that I bought tickets to their reunion tour....... back in Fall 2019 :') Thus far, the concert has been pushed back... three times. But by God, I'm holding onto these babies.

    • @blockbustergarbage
      @blockbustergarbage  3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      i'm in the same boat! 2022 we better get those concerts!!!!

    • @drunkbrick
      @drunkbrick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      At least you got to keep your tickets. Bought tickets to a festival in Australia they were gonna play at, got cancelled the day before it was meant to happen in 2020 and we got refunded and told we'd get emailed when they release their concert details. Never got an email and sold out within an hour 😭

    • @nocturne403
      @nocturne403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too, it was a birthday present, hopefully we’re able to see them next year, it’s been my dream since 6th grade.

    • @fattunicorns
      @fattunicorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yup, 700 dollars in the hole

    • @drunkbrick
      @drunkbrick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fattunicorns holy crap, is that just for the concert or is that with travel and accommodation?

  • @rdake4542
    @rdake4542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +842

    I don’t know how a album could get any darker sounding then the first record mcr released

    • @buttons9751
      @buttons9751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      IBYMBYBMYL is one of my favourite albums of all time. 🖤

    • @ShaunMichaelW
      @ShaunMichaelW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Their best album, worst i would say is dark parade as its the band wagon album

    • @kennas4281
      @kennas4281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@ShaunMichaelW it’s the Black Parade not the “dark” parade dude

    • @katem2567
      @katem2567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@ShaunMichaelW not a bandwagon but the every song sounds great that's why most of the people love it,get lost stupid

    • @cathemist
      @cathemist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@ShaunMichaelW nah the black parade is mcr's best album u literally cant deny it. its what they're known for

  • @dracodawa6870
    @dracodawa6870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1488

    people think Danger Days has a "happy -feel good " tone?! surely those people have not payed attention to the lyrics and story as it clearly tells a lost rebel cause. I would even consider it bleaker than Black Parade since in that album, the patient went to heaven in the end where in this one, the rebels died in vain.

    • @pupchubs6301
      @pupchubs6301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Yeah 100 danger days has Star Wars energy

    • @littlebear9842
      @littlebear9842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      a lot of the songs on danger days are about being free and are happy songs, like sing and summertime. Those are really happy feel good songs.

    • @sp0ngeb00b7
      @sp0ngeb00b7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@littlebear9842 "free and happy songs" "SING" bro wh

    • @emmabarbot6964
      @emmabarbot6964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@pupchubs6301 i’d say blade runner and mad max more than star wars

    • @pupchubs6301
      @pupchubs6301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@emmabarbot6964 go off king

  • @DashNothing
    @DashNothing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +863

    I'd rather they don't do Paper Kingdom if it brought them misery before. They don't have to be super dark to be a good band.

    • @smilehoya1133
      @smilehoya1133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      agree, i remembered how burned out they were after the black parade tour

    • @michaelmolina598
      @michaelmolina598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      For sure I'd personally love a follow up on the girls pov after the kill joys died

    • @thedestroyasystem
      @thedestroyasystem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Mostly agreed. I don’t think they should have to keep working on anything that doesn’t bring them happiness, however, it feels like a shame to let whatever has already been made of the album be lost to history. I hope they release the demos/lyrics if nothing else, but I don’t expect them to do any more work on the album than has already been done.

    • @gabrielroddie2078
      @gabrielroddie2078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yeah, I'd give a significant amount of money to hear this album, but I'm glad they didn't do it if they would be miserable making it.

    • @liliyurch2511
      @liliyurch2511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here. I’d rather them be happy.

  • @brookhavyn2731
    @brookhavyn2731 4 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    this man puts more effort in his videos than 60% of youtubers without any subscribers

    • @mivvy3182
      @mivvy3182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Unfortunate honestly, a lot of channels that have to do with the Film of Music industry do really bad in terms of views.

    • @blockbustergarbage
      @blockbustergarbage  3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I try my best! :)

    • @somedude772
      @somedude772 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean with subscribers

    • @blockbustergarbage
      @blockbustergarbage  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@somedude772 this was my first video i put out on this channel and at the time I had either 0 or very few subscribers. I’m so thankful people seem to enjoy the video I impulsively made for fun :)

  • @somuchworse
    @somuchworse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Update on the album: it was up for sale, however someone private bought it, so it’s never getting leaked unless someone else gets it

    • @abejalion
      @abejalion 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      how the tables have turned

    • @somuchworse
      @somuchworse 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@abejalion iirc we only got one song. Still super good tho

  • @Natalie-ip9co
    @Natalie-ip9co 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    god i saw the thumbnail of this and thought mcr released a new album. i almost cried lmao

    • @Natalie-ip9co
      @Natalie-ip9co 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this vid is super well done tho! i didnt know about any of this.

  • @-Gage-
    @-Gage- 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    An alleged paper kingdom song got leaked a few days ago! It's called Witch and the link can be found under a post on the mcr subreddit!

    • @Noot8888
      @Noot8888 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What does it meannn

    • @-Gage-
      @-Gage- 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Noot8888 nothing much. Someone had the song somehow and decided to leak it. It's a super old demo and doesn't mean anything related to MCR5 if that's what you're wondering

  • @bonnielol2283
    @bonnielol2283 3 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    This has been my comfort band since forever and never heard this wtf

    • @shandie1117
      @shandie1117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same

    • @clairvoyant_sky
      @clairvoyant_sky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i thought i was the only one!!

    • @zalenstar
      @zalenstar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I didnt know it had a name, i just knew it was called MCR5 for the longest time

    • @thespankmyfrank
      @thespankmyfrank 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao same, like I knew they were making an album as they split up, but I never knew any facts about it. And they were basically my life back then haha.

    • @rattleheead
      @rattleheead 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      same...

  • @gabrielakalafirova2449
    @gabrielakalafirova2449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Ever since I saw the new witchy theme and the teasers for the reunion I've been wondering if the parents from Paper Kingdom have gone down the rabbit hole and are trying to ressurect their children...doing deals with the devil and sacrificing...other living beings...Sounds pretty dark to me, thus speculating they are working on the Paper Kingdom again. Prob not, but I love the idea of Paper Kingdom too much to let it go so I keep hoping.

    • @blockbustergarbage
      @blockbustergarbage  3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I have doubts that a new album would be the paper kingdom as it once was, if at all. I do hope however we get the demos, even just instrumentals they made at the time.

    • @kashiichan
      @kashiichan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd read that story as a book

  • @plutowalkerr
    @plutowalkerr 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Whose here after witch got leaked

  • @kornelparoczai1763
    @kornelparoczai1763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    All The Angels is a masterpiece

  • @Pepperoniburrito
    @Pepperoniburrito 4 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    This is a really well made video

    • @MrThenight777
      @MrThenight777 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Matt Hunkee to you maybe

    • @danielachagas7295
      @danielachagas7295 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Matt Hunkee lol why don’t u try and make a better job then?

  • @minacapella8319
    @minacapella8319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    This is literally the first I've heard of paper kingdom. I knew they started another album after danger days... but never any details... and I dug so hard for info. Thank you for filling in a huge gap in my knowledge

  • @kllurfrnds
    @kllurfrnds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I would adore another really dark album from them, but it’s very taxing and it’s understandable that it’s hard to continue to write dark material. I just want to hear them again, new material would be absolutely amazing. I’m so excited to see them whenever we can; I’ve been waiting such a long time to see them.

  • @swolejeezy2603
    @swolejeezy2603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Gerard's "Don't Try" is actually a pretty dark song, so maybe a line or two from some Paper Kingdom track were borrowed for it

    • @atatah4092
      @atatah4092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Can you please explain the meaning

    • @swolejeezy2603
      @swolejeezy2603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@atatah4092 Of “Don’t Try”? I’m pretty sure it’s about Gerard getting older and feeling like he has no purpose in life

  • @thedogfromraditude5449
    @thedogfromraditude5449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Hearing about scrapped media is both fascinating and kind of heartbreaking. I’m a big fan of MCR as well as Radiohead (which you mentioned may have sounded similar to Paper Kingdom) and this album had such a fascinating concept. I’m sure it would’ve been a masterpiece. Now that they’re back, I really hope they revisit this, but I can understand why they wouldn’t want to and I would be fine with that.

  • @lojomc9311
    @lojomc9311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Been a MCR fan since 2006 and Paper Kingdom sounds like the MCR album I always wanted

    • @gemin.r.j
      @gemin.r.j ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Have you heard the four leaks?

  • @kristopherbastani854
    @kristopherbastani854 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    The Black Parade is a damn good album but honestly Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge is their best album. And one of my favorite albums of all time ( as is The Black Parade).
    I’m Not Okay, Helena, The Ghost Of You, Thank You For The Venom, To The End, Cemetery Drive. These songs were the soundtrack to my life back in the day.
    Man I miss those days

    • @lolidontknowagoodname9572
      @lolidontknowagoodname9572 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Personally i dont like The ghost of you, because the slowness of the song feels like it slows down incredibly

    • @sleepykat666
      @sleepykat666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree. I love all there albums but 3 Cheers sits at its rightful place at the top for me with Bullets being a close 2nd.

  • @CZsWorld
    @CZsWorld ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The Paper Kingdom seems a lot less finished than something like Weezer's Songs From The Black Hole.
    I doubt we'll ever see it.

    • @logalcam
      @logalcam 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bro I see you on literally every single weezer video I watch and now you’re here again

    • @degner5136
      @degner5136 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The witch just leaked

  • @muhammadrayhanfirdaus1309
    @muhammadrayhanfirdaus1309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Welcome to another dimension where My Chemical Romance still had some time to release their last album.

  • @reymhd7655
    @reymhd7655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    hey, interesting video, i can explain a bit more about pinkish, i was lucky enough to meet gerard around Sept 2013 at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo Tx where he tracked the bulk of hesitant alien, he said the whole album was gonna be completely new territory for him and that he started with “Millions” first, and then got inspired to keep going, he played 4 songs for us, the 4 being: Millions, Juarez, No Shows, and Pinkish (only pinkish and millions sounded close to finished, the others didn’t change much upon release but had more production and detail to them. Well, anyways i’m sure none of the album was inspired by any unreleased my chem stuff, i didn’t even ask about my chem cause it was very apparent he was living in the present and excited to work on that album

    • @reymhd7655
      @reymhd7655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *now have more production and detail

  • @sotcefa
    @sotcefa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I've been a fan of this band for almost a decade and I had no idea MCR5 was named “Paper Kingdom”, didn't even know what its theme was. Great video!

  • @SurrealiamPrime
    @SurrealiamPrime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    i remember hearing about this album years ago. i really hope Gerard makes the concept a comic. it’s too good of a story to keep on the shelf

  • @marygarcias6903
    @marygarcias6903 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    MCR played Sister to Sleep during 5th show in LA last year where each of the LA nights was an album era depending on the majority of songs on the setlist from each of their albums. Many speculated that the 5th show would be an album announcement
    LA 1: Bullets
    LA 2: Revenge
    LA 3: Black Parade
    LA 4: Danger Days
    LA 5: “Catholic” as described by Gerard, which was a mix of their eras
    Sister to Sleep was meant to be on the Revenge album, but got cut. They have not played that song since 2003 since they lost copies of the demo and Matt, their original drummer is refusing to give his copy up due to their past relationship. Although, I’ve heard that WB/Reprise have a copy of the original Sister to Sleep vaulted in the studio.
    Here are my theories of Sister to Sleep:
    - A new re-recorded version of Sister to Sleep, not sure if this will end up on MCR5 if that album possibly comes out
    - Live recording of Sister to Sleep in LA on a possible reunion live album
    - 2024 where a possible 20th anniversary release of Revenge comes + sister to sleep demo from the studio vault, depends on MCR’s relationship with the label
    What is your take on this or anyone else’s take on Sister to Sleep?

  • @kittysrock16
    @kittysrock16 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Paper kingdom would've been so sick and awesome ngl

  • @lau-uv5vt
    @lau-uv5vt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    My theory is the instrumental song for an offering is one of the paper kingdom

  • @theintrovertoddball7463
    @theintrovertoddball7463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    I think it is indeed that mcr is gonna make the paper kingdom again, if not then that's okay.

    • @questionmark3666
      @questionmark3666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No they will Finally release it

    • @mariocheezwhiz4023
      @mariocheezwhiz4023 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really? Are they going too- I’m really intrigued

    • @questionmark3666
      @questionmark3666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mariocheezwhiz4023 yes!

    • @peysecail
      @peysecail 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@questionmark3666 well I think they'll make a new album and redo a few of the tracks that were already done and either still call it the paper kingdom or call it something else

    • @questionmark3666
      @questionmark3666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@peysecail or drop paper kingdom and a new album like how fall out boy did when they came back they dropped 4 albums all at Once

  • @gr4ys0n
    @gr4ys0n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I’d love to see the idea revisited in the form of a book or comic. I think an album would also be banger, but it could be like a Danger Days duo thing. It sounds like something I would definitely want to read. -someone who doesn’t like to read

    • @mimil.2606
      @mimil.2606 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I kinda agree with that a lot it maybe very sad but maybe if it was in a comic baby a twist was the children were all alive some how and the paper kingdom universe was a real place and the parents. Got a sign of something and join everyone together to go find the kids they maybe like stuck that same age due to universe rules or be older by Gerard’s own choice and they all have a nice reunion and no one is really dead. So it can kinda be light hearted.

    • @mimil.2606
      @mimil.2606 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just an idea not saying Gerard’s idea was bad it was beautiful in a depressing way but I think maybe if he doesn’t wanna go all sad. He can have a reunion with a deep crazy dramatic story arc in between.

  • @brannareboredo3935
    @brannareboredo3935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    dude this video just keeps my mcr fuel going, thanks a lot for making this amazing video!!

  • @gerardwayisajacket9551
    @gerardwayisajacket9551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +265

    ive been in the fandom for 3 years and never heard this WTF

    • @azzy6573
      @azzy6573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      SAME LIKE WTF, IVE BEEN HERE FOR 4 YEARS LIKE TF-

    • @AutumnObsession
      @AutumnObsession 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@azzy6573 I'm here since 2013 and knew nothing about it

    • @madijennings7396
      @madijennings7396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I've been in the fandom for 15 years and I never heard of it either :/

    • @bibbumblebee
      @bibbumblebee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I’ve been here since 2006 and I only heard about this in the last couple months.

    • @fedem8229
      @fedem8229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I had heard about this, but then I thought I was crazy, I remember reading something about an album that told a story of some parents losing their children, but I never found that again so I thought that was some kind of false memory

  • @awesomeappaloosa7583
    @awesomeappaloosa7583 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I COME TO YOU FROM THE FUTURE
    MEET THE FOUNDATIONS OF DECAY. THE FIRST MCR SONG SINCE FAKE YOUR DEATH

  • @Delightedinglory
    @Delightedinglory 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Dang this was a good video. Really enjoyed the lost media aspect about my chem, it’s really cool. I reeeeeally wanna have paper kingdom available now 😩

  • @theshiningemerald4288
    @theshiningemerald4288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I've been a fan of the band since i was 12 (now 16). I did not know about this at all until barely a min ago

  • @felix4553
    @felix4553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    as a relatively new MCR fan (since circa early-mid 2019) I am very excited to see what the future holds for this ragtag group of handsome bois. the paper kingdom sounds like it would have been very dark but I believe it could have served as a major point of maturity with the band and could have maybe been a melancholy send off if mcr had chosen to go that direction. but alas, i dont think we will be seeing it unless they changed their own feelings about it, i just hope we get some album in the future.

  • @xbingxchillin2751
    @xbingxchillin2751 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    This is the content I’m looking for I’m gonna subscribe

  • @jayanderson147
    @jayanderson147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I would've liked to hear about the other members' solo work, considering they've all done a lot as well, and Gerard isn't the only one who may have taken inspiration from the Paper Kingdom. Other than that, good video, well done

    • @blockbustergarbage
      @blockbustergarbage  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      that's a great point! honestly i hadn't given it much thought, Frank in particular has put out the most songs, hmmmm...

    • @carlycat3429
      @carlycat3429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ray's song "isn't that something" is awesome! As is "hazy shade of winter" by Ray and G

  • @eveecco
    @eveecco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Great video and I'm glad it came up in my suggestions! Makes me really wish they had released it before they all broke up.

  • @gloriabright2172
    @gloriabright2172 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    3 years later and one track from the paper kingdom has leaked

  • @kornelparoczai1763
    @kornelparoczai1763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I recognise all the songs in the background lmaao

  • @brettcooper3893
    @brettcooper3893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Gerard didn't use any material from MCR5 for Hesitant Alien. I believe "Pinkish" and "Don't Try" were actually written while on the first round of Alien shows, and then he started performing them in his set, and THEN he went on to record them properly for a RSD release. Nothing from the Parade sessions/demos was used for MCR5. Not quite sure where you're getting your information.
    Having said all that, I have to admit that I'm a bit surprised that we haven't gotten any new material due to the 2 year delay of their tour. Seems really odd, honestly.

    • @blockbustergarbage
      @blockbustergarbage  3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yes that certainly was a reach, honestly there’s so little info on MCR 5 I figured it’d be more interesting to include far out speculation.
      I was actually planning to do a redux version of this video explaining things a bit more, as well of course more fun speculation and adding any small tidbits I had learned after, but I have so little info collected I just don’t see it happening anytime soon.

    • @blockbustergarbage
      @blockbustergarbage  3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Also, you said nothing from the black parade sessions or demos was used for mcr5, and while I think there’s a good possibility it wasn’t, I wouldn’t count it out either. The rumors were that the album was barely completed, so who knows, if they were ever in need of songs to complete the album, old BP demos would’ve worked after a little repurpose. Again, it’s quite a reach, but not impossible. I hope one day we get at least any demos recorded for the paper kingdom.

    • @brettcooper3893
      @brettcooper3893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@blockbustergarbage your logic is sound, but the thing is, we pretty much got ALL that was usable at all in Living With Ghosts. They were under such a tight timetable during those years that not much was discarded, nor did they have time to demo a ton of unused songs. Granted, you can't believe what Gerard says in interviews as I've caught him in outright lies before, but he had the best of intentions. ;)

    • @gemin.r.j
      @gemin.r.j ปีที่แล้ว

      Gerard used to call it MCR5 in 2012 because Conventional weapons hadn't been released yet, but the name of the album is "the paper kingdom". Please stop calling it MCR5, now we know that Gerard treats CW as an studio album and he regrets not releasing it at the beginning of 2010.

  • @BethyMarks135
    @BethyMarks135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I really hope he releases as a book, I would read it.

  • @nicoled.3424
    @nicoled.3424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is so exciting with their new song, i think the lyrics could fit really well with paper kingdom so i hope this means a new album!!!

  • @heyitsgabs21
    @heyitsgabs21 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    if they dropped an album with this concept now its fkn over for me

  • @击nya
    @击nya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    its making me so frickin sad this album wasnt made- i badly hope if they ever make somthing again its either this album or somthing dark like it ya know

  • @pastries8393
    @pastries8393 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yeah the fact that they put effort into their new concept as if they were releasing a new album makes me think that they have more things planned other than a Reunion tour.

  • @mckennapipher
    @mckennapipher ปีที่แล้ว +3

    imo people who shit on Danger Days seem to think Gee only makes good music when they want to die and i say incredibly fuck that. Danger days is full of absolute bangers

  • @PapyrusFontFan
    @PapyrusFontFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All the angels is definitely the best demo MCR’s ever released, I pray one day an actual studio version comes out

  • @sk8rat86
    @sk8rat86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The first and second albums will ALWAYS be supreme

  • @Novasky2007
    @Novasky2007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Lets hope they been working throughout lockdown MCR deserve a strong comeback

  • @l8uis
    @l8uis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I think that the live demos and the nough mixes of MCRX are the paper kingdom, because, if you pay attention to the lyrics, it talk about the children who died
    *(for example i think that "kill all your friends" its about a girl/boy who died on a party or something like that; in "emily" a girl who died by an crazy family member or for by kidnappers or thives; "my way home is throngh you" its about a brother/sister who is talking with her/his died bro/sis; "the five of us are dying" its about every parent telling their feelings about their died childrens; and, "not that kind of girl" its talking about a parent that his/her daughter died when she went with her boyfriend and never back home)*
    That´s my opinion and the story that I created with the lyrics of the songs

    • @madisonabbate995
      @madisonabbate995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Listening back on the songs it all really makes sense that this would be real and not just a theory. Plus he has said it was almost emotionless in a way and sure you hear some emotion in MCRX demos but there is very few honestly you could make a whole story off of the demos alone

    • @l8uis
      @l8uis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@madisonabbate995 is what I did and honestly, I think it was good to just take the lyrics of the demos

    • @pikkelssi4537
      @pikkelssi4537 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Atleast kill all your friends, my way home and five of us are dying are 100% not from paper kingdom, because kill all your friends and my way home were released in the famous last words single that was released before even danger days. Also the five of us are dying is just an early version of welcome to the black parade. But emily sounds like it could be a paper kingdom song because i don't think would even fit the black parade.

    • @andymccoy8370
      @andymccoy8370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@pikkelssi4537 i'm guessing the demos and live songs we got in living with ghosts inspired the paper kingdom. i feel like those were the base of the story and then they wrote 6 new songs and scrapped it all.

    • @josephnormyle28
      @josephnormyle28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kill all your friends is an exception because Gerard says he wished it was on Black Parade and would go after Sharpest Lives. The five of us are dying is rough mix of WTTBP. Emily, not that kind of girl both do seem like it though. Party at the end of the world sounds like a transitional song into Danger Days, like checking the sound a bit. All the angels all seems like a Paper Kingdom song.

  • @brokengirlsrus
    @brokengirlsrus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I got tickets for their reunion tour back in 2019 when they first went on sale. They got cancelled twice but I'm holding onto them like they're gold.

  • @dr_busa_nutts
    @dr_busa_nutts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    the reunion is the only reason i survived 2020

  • @brokengirlsrus
    @brokengirlsrus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fake Your Death is one of my favorite songs by them. I'm happy to have gotten a few songs of the potential album.

  • @Anonymous-ev3rl
    @Anonymous-ev3rl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i truly believe the paper kingdom would've been my favorite album by them and would've done great

  • @catatoblob8598
    @catatoblob8598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think that's subjective. IBYMBYBMYL deals with a lot of dark subjects, but they're dark subjects pretty much every young adult thinks about, esp in the post 911 decade (i.e. breakups, self harm while high, grief, terrorism threats, being attacked by the undead (????) ). I don't think that they had to delve particularly deep to write about those topics. The reason why MCR felt super relatable in the 00s was because that stuff was on the forefront of everyone's minds, it's just that there are so few musicians that could capture that dark cultural zeitgeist while still staying energetic and marketable. In contrast, with paper kingdom, it felt like they tried too hard to dig for something painful to talk about and actively hurt themselves.

  • @emeraldeyeball2002
    @emeraldeyeball2002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Them releasing foundations of decay and playing a lot of older obscure songs on tour might be hinting at something new, not quite paper kingdom, but something.

  • @Chiefwackahomer
    @Chiefwackahomer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The idea that Pinkish is a Paper Kingdom song is insane

  • @cherry-xz7jy
    @cherry-xz7jy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Now, -hear me out- wouldn’t it be great if they picked up on working on the album in question, now that they’re back?

    • @lauraslade5308
      @lauraslade5308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Kyle Roberts mcr's back!!!

    • @jjstegall8462
      @jjstegall8462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Kyle Roberts a reunion tour means there back together.

  • @owl3650
    @owl3650 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gerard did say he wanted to write a book, i hope he does

  • @toukauzumaki3612
    @toukauzumaki3612 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just wanted to say i am here for these 8bit versions of MCR songs 🙏🏻❤️

  • @kissulevers
    @kissulevers 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    TPK IS REAL, LESGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    Edit: No it isnt

    • @ShadyzzzFR
      @ShadyzzzFR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @wickedchild8501
    @wickedchild8501 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just want to say that Danger Days is one of the best albums ever made and I'm glad they released it despite the risks

  • @mophead7759
    @mophead7759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i believe that someone out there loves you was reworked into ambulance, but i could be wrong

  • @books2438
    @books2438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ok but the album cover is insane. It’s so haunting

  • @saiyaman5932
    @saiyaman5932 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the video that they posted to tease their return had people dressed as the dead running through a forest. i wholeheartedly believe that they were teasing paper kingdom but halted the creation of the album due to covid, and are now slowly picking it back up since they have more shows soon

  • @Eren-ul1dz
    @Eren-ul1dz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    okay but hear me out: what if conventional weapons actually has a lotta content that could've been in the paper kingdom. I'm mostly thinking about the light behind your eyes than anything but like think about it, the song already feels really sad and heavy, what if it's somehow connected to MCR5??? maybe??? lmk if I'm wrong bc i probably am, it's still interesting to think about tho imo

    • @francesca940
      @francesca940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Could be wrong but I thought conventional weapons were mostly the songs from a scrapped album between black parade and danger days

    • @LRM5195
      @LRM5195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@francesca940 you’re exactly right

  • @ryanwatts7817
    @ryanwatts7817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They have now swapped to imagery of rats, flys and swarms. On the 3rd night at mk in the uk a video about rats played before there set

  • @hyperzucar
    @hyperzucar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    First of all, this is the first ever video I watch from you. It is even kind of old, 8 months at the moment.
    Around 2016 I was a HUGE FAN of MyChem, the same year I had just started listening to them. Differently as other TH-cam channels, I knew MOST of the stuff you mention, instead of all of them - which is quite rare I swear. It seems I've even missed on some information of the band since I stopped being interested.
    Around the 8:53 mark you mention that they'd gone to their roots in terms of music writting. And I used to think the same, that they could had been writting stuff that sounds like TBP, but now I think that's not their roots, hardcore punk is their roots.
    I think they were going pretty heavy with vocals, sounding not so happy. On their first record, they were telling a story. But I don't think all of the songs are about The Lovers' story. This Is The Best Day Ever isn't. I don't think This Mirror Isn't For The Two Of Us isn't either. I never thought of them doing something like that, where a couple of songs aren't telling the album's main story. I think this was heavier than the heavier songs on I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, like the ones I mentioned before.
    You even mentioned at one point, they where going to aim for a different public with this new sound. Honestly I think grown ups got tired of the whole "Frerard" thing, hahah.
    Anyways, great video, keep it up and all those stuff. Subscribed 👍.

  • @steverhodes9743
    @steverhodes9743 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Anyone here after 11/11/2024 tease?

  • @marksroom9161
    @marksroom9161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    THEY ARE MAKING A NEW ALBUM T H E Y A R E M A K I N G A N E W A L B U M .

  • @gabiocampos
    @gabiocampos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The album cover looks like one of those dungeon synth albums 😂

    • @sonicthehedgegod
      @sonicthehedgegod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      omg same im like “damn were they abt to drop a black metal album???”

  • @Cdobs08
    @Cdobs08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You seriously need more subscribers. I can tell you take time to make these video while other with 10x the subscribers make 0 effort

  • @norapatriciamejia
    @norapatriciamejia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Losing a child no matter in which way, is always absolutely tragic and horrible; devastating to their parents and family 😔 I ❤️ My Chem

  • @Dontbeafraid2
    @Dontbeafraid2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My prediction is that mcr is picking up the paper kingdom and is working on it right now

  • @windowless7678
    @windowless7678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    EMILY fits in so well???

    • @windowless7678
      @windowless7678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like the lyrics to emily always stuck with me and made me shiver bc they were so vague but so clear at the same time. Its about someone feeling regret and guilt for the detath of a girl most probably the suicide of that girl. This would actually finally make sense if it was in the paper kingdom bc many things didn't make sense if it was a real life story

  • @QuixEnd
    @QuixEnd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I consider fake your death and conventional weapons as a separate album. Theres amazing songs on it, sucks their production always sounds awful. l also there's super deep lore about how they planned their California 2019 return, faking their death and announcing their comeback on the day of the Dead, it's freaking gold! Listen to the five of us are dying and Kill all your friends, better than their final master

    • @gemin.r.j
      @gemin.r.j ปีที่แล้ว

      The five of us are dying was just a demo for welcome to the black parade, it was just a draft song.

    • @QuixEnd
      @QuixEnd ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gemin.r.j Yeah it's obv where it came from but it's also structured way differently. It went through dozens of revisions that completely changed the feel of it, I just liked the initial direction better

  • @floweredinfebruary
    @floweredinfebruary 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Do you remember in 2016 when warner brothers made us all look like clowns? Yes. Yes I do 🤡

  • @coconut6431
    @coconut6431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    10:24 That's one hell of a transition

  • @elderlynahum7663
    @elderlynahum7663 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dark and bleak were exactly why I picked up "I brought you my bullets" how would that not be the my chem we love???? 😅😅 weird friend....

  • @i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r
    @i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If paper kingdom ever does get released, does anyone think Emily will get rereleased on it? Like maybe a version with different production?

  • @ethanjohnson8958
    @ethanjohnson8958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if “Bury Me In Black” would have been on there? I also am sad that we never saw a higher quality recording of “Sister to Sleep”

  • @RealRedRabbit
    @RealRedRabbit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The MCRX cross was my first professionally done tattoo.

  • @Valkiria669
    @Valkiria669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If we talk about Pinkish, I think it would be good to mention Don't try. Because, if Pinkish is on point lyrically, then Don't try is really on point musically. I think it's the most MCR sounding Gerard's song. Every time it starts playing - I think it's MCR's song, not solo-work.

  • @reedyouguess
    @reedyouguess ปีที่แล้ว

    i always found some of the songs from conventional weapons to be very remenicant of what was supposed to be paper kingdom, kind of an homage, or a stripped back version of it, with the themes being very very similar to paper kingdom. Things like light behind your eyes, ambulance, gun, world is ugly, always seemed to be parents talking to children, songs about angry kids and teens wishing death on themselves, I mean even the name ambulance is very on the nose. even with sequences being taken from danger days (everybody wants to change the world no one wants to die) and bullets (ghost in the snow, ghost in the sun), as if the life is flashing before the narrators eyes. i don't think it lines up timeline wise, but that's always been a hunch or I guess headcanon of mine

  • @banzokazoobie788
    @banzokazoobie788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Emily for sure is a pk track, it literally sounds like a parent crying out for the child

  • @themisfitbrigade
    @themisfitbrigade 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “After their fourth album” They had other albums and releases, the big four are just the “Concept Albums” which tell specific stories.

  • @НастяБочарова-ш6и
    @НастяБочарова-ш6и 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i would like to hear the paper kingdom but honestly i want nothing but someone out there loves you to be released

  • @harpercollins2003
    @harpercollins2003 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i feel like it’s unlikely we will get the paper kingdom since foundations of decay is like (in my opinion) them looking on their past but pushing through. and on top of that their whole new thing is like flies and swarms and decays so i think something new is in the works but def not paper kingdom

  • @jjstegall8462
    @jjstegall8462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The new song foundations of decay may be the first single off of paper kingdoms

  • @Renegades97
    @Renegades97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic video my friend! Well done

  • @alexanderwoods3951
    @alexanderwoods3951 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think with the release of their 2022 single The Foundations Of Decay we're probably gonna have to wait a bit

  • @kateflynn8803
    @kateflynn8803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    10:28 the emotion is still there. Boi 2019. 😭😭😭🖤

  • @stagiaireshiro6782
    @stagiaireshiro6782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What if the story with the lost children is actually used for the umbrella academy? Idk abt the chronology like was it before or after the paper kingdom ? But imagine

  • @michaelmolina598
    @michaelmolina598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There's also the comic book national anthem series which is a new MCR release in way

  • @lemmytoad8569
    @lemmytoad8569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Damn I miss Mcr