Teenagers (song)
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"Teenagers" is the upcoming fourth single and eleventh track from My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade. It will be the third U.S. single from the album, as the previous single, "I Don't Love You", was a UK-only release. This song will be also be the band's twelfth overall single.
Teenagers Release
According to FMQB, the song was to be released to radio on April 23, 2007. This was then pushed forward to May 1, 2007. FMQB has since changed the release date to May 14/May 15, 2007.[1]
From a November 2006 issue of Kerrang! magazine, Gerard Way quoted:
It's a commentary on kids being viewed as meat; by the government and by society. That's how I felt in school, and after 9/11 happened that's how I felt in general. It's very important that this song is here because I always viewed this as about these kids in the parade who had killed themselves, who had made a big mistake. It's a very powerful song.
Music video
Several photos of the music video shoot have been leaked onto Buzznet, however no official release date of the video has been set by the band. The photos show the band performing in a high school auditorium, with cheerleaders prancing around them. In some of the photos, the cheerleaders appear to be wearing gas masks.
On May 8, 2007, a short clip of the music video was shown during Linkin Park's 3-minute Projekt Revolution 2007 trailer on YouTube (which is seen here). About 55 seconds into the trailer, it shows a 30 second portion of My Chemical Romance performing their three U.S. singles from The Black Parade.
In the music video preview, My Chemical Romance perform "Teenagers" with the cheerleaders dancing about on the auditorium stage in front of an audience of what appears to be high school students. The audience is throwing their right arms up in the air with clenched fists as the band plays the song. In addition to the cheerleaders wearing gas masks, they are also handling some type of weapon that appears to be a club or tonfa. They swing them in a violent manner in order to "strike a violent pose" as the song suggests.
References
- ^ "Available for Airplay". FMQB. 2007-04. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
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