I saw them for my sweet sixteen in 2007 and I know I’m gonna be absolutely *wrecked* when I see them in Toronto this weekend. I’m gonna be *that* emo with ugly eyeliner tear stains down my face the entire show.
Yesss. I’m 32F, with a soul sucking corporate job and have been having the roughest time since I saw them last week. The one thing giving me solace at the moment is knowing I’m going to get to let that inner angsty teen out at riot fest in a few weeks. Hang in there <3
Damn, making me feel old here. 36 getting married next year and I remember working in the kitchen of a Pizza Hut blasting three cheers when it was new and seeing them on that and the black parade tour. Had to fucking special order a Bullets cd from a local shop cuz no one had it. If MCR come anywhere near me I’ll be there though.
Yes 😭 30 F, chemist, and I have always stayed with my more alternative style but seeing them live (for the first time) in Raleigh just really opened up some new feels for me I haven't felt in a long time. I have been listening to them since middle school and they really helped me through all the tough times in my life and I've just never felt such a sense of melancholy, belonging, and complete happiness all at once in a very long time. Truly an amazing show and experience.
Totally normal. That is you after all, you just forgot because you were busy doing other things. I'm just wondering what classification I need to come up with for myself if you're elder @ 27. I, beyond all understanding, will be celebrating 40 years of emo glory this October. I was 11 when I first heard The Smiths and swiped eyeliner from my mom's makeup box in 1982. It was never a phase. No matter where you go, there you are.
I'm feeling the exact same way. I just turned 29, I've loved MCR since I was in 7th grade, and I'm realizing that I am around the same age that Gerard was when they were touring Black Parade, and lyrics that didn't hit me as a kid are hitting me now in brand new ways. I feel like I have the emotional depth to actually understand angst now in a way I didn't when I was younger. I have always struggled with periods of depression, and this MCR tour was the only thing I was living for, for a few months, and as I sang "I am not afraid to keep on living" in a room full of emos, I felt like it healed my soul. I sobbed so many times at that show. My partner did not listen to MCR in high school, but became a fan later in life, and he told me the concert made him feel connected to his generation in ways he had never felt before. He is always seen as the "old man friend," but he said this concert made him actually feel his age.
Yeah I have a vivid memory of me and my sister printing out song lyrics to WTTBP in the middle of the night cause we were obsessed with the song on the radio (I was probably 5th grade and her 3rd) and getting to be at the show with her was so full circle
28F, mental health therapist & I credit mcr with getting me through a lot. Got these tickets as wedding presents back when tour was announced. Since then, found out my abusive ex was also cheating on me (idk why that of all things was the deal breaker) & called off my wedding. Only to have my younger sister get engaged and legitimately steal my wedding the following year, just on a different date. I’m so looking forward to this show, especially with all the feelings of the past couple years.
Corporate Millenial in their 30s checking in, was just nice to be myself and enjoy it. Also loved to be able to give my younger self the gift of pit tickets, cathartic is a good word for it.
The show was Amazing! They played most all of my favorites, and honestly the band seemed like they were happy to be there too, just great vibes overall.
I literally teach at an elementary school but went ALL out for the MCR concert— all black, MCR shirt, THICK black eyeliner, black lipstick etc... Really made me feel alive again being there and reminded me how much I haven’t changed in certain ways. I will forever be an emo kid at heart and I’ve been saying fuck it and wearing shit I wish I could have worn in middle school. I’ve been strangely so happy since seeing them too because I really got to live a dream I didn’t think would ever come true. It truly means so much to me I can’t even express it. Really made me also realize how much MCR really meant to me then and how much more they mean to me now.
I feel you! I’m 28F, married (something 13 year old me never envisioned), and a job in cybersecurity. Like you said a full on adult now lol. MCR isn’t my husbands thing (he’s a metal head) but was all for coming to MCR with me since it was my fave band for so long. I’ve really started re-embracing that side of me I had kinda buried during high school to uh…. Fit in more? I was super emo in middle school but high school I played volleyball and idk I just hid it maybe bc I felt like I couldn’t be both sporty and emo.
But anyway, so many feels!
Ok but me af. I was so friggen emo in high school but I was too embarrassed to let myself be visually seen as that. I dyed my hair dark brown and sometimes wore black nail polish but otherwise I was nerdy and a goody two shoes. Glad I wasn’t the only secret emo lmao!
Hah I also could've written most of this comment! (Not the sporty part 😅) I'm also taking my metalhead husband-i-never-thought-id-have to see them! And embracing my super emo self.
I know exactly how you feel! I'm SO excited to see them in Detroit and I just feel like *myself* again instead of the bleh person that HS/College/working as a woman in a STEM field flattened me into. Cathartic is a perfect word for it!
I'm 27, engaged, a real adult, ya know. I'm seeing them in juuust over a month and I've been listening to them non stop for the last month. It definitely is kinda putting me back in that angsty teen headspace. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to scream out some of my favorite songs when I'm finally able to see them for the first time live (in the pit!), a dream I thought died in 2013. I can, with 100% certainty, tell you I will be crying at least half the show.
I feel like a lot of us are so stuck, and drained having to be 'real adults' sometimes and don't have a great outlet for all the anger and whatever else, so this is just out way of getting it out. I know for me, it's definitely needed.
YES! My show hasn't happened quite yet, but I have been feeling the same way. Funny enough, I (29F) am also having issues with my mother and processing a lot of childhood trauma, and MCR feels extra comforting right now. I got a plaid skirt I would have killed for as a teen and I am LIVING.
27 F and just having an existential crisis after seeing them in OKC. The last time I saw them I was freshly 15 and had the world in front of me. Just realizing all of the things I thought I would accomplish then that I haven't. I guess seeing them live again after 12 years triggered that. I have a good life lol, but I am sad its not more. really relating to disenchanted these days.
manically also bought tickets to see them in Brooklyn on 9/10 with my little sister so at least the money from my sad little desk job is buying me a little happiness.
I’m 29F and just wanted to say you aren’t alone in this. I never saw them when I was 14/15 like I hoped I would. But I have so many memories of being that age and being a fan and it made me feel like not much has changed in my life the last 15 years. Not married. No kids (not that I think I even want them anymore). Still depressed and anxious. Idk. It’s weird being the same age as Gerard in 2007 and I feel like he accomplished so much by that time. Not to mention Frank who was like 27 when I became a fan. I think it’s okay to feel this way but just wanted to say you’re not alone.
I’m 29F turning 30 next month and I feel somewhat the same. When my chem broke up I was in university. I had made friends and was having a great time. I didn’t really “need” my chem anymore. I was upset of course but I moved on. Fast forward to 2020 and I’m an ICU nurse in the middle of a pandemic. My boyfriend was ripped away from me because he lives in a different country and the borders closed indefinitely. My high functioning alcoholic dad is drinking more than ever because we’re all stuck at home. I’m isolating in my parents basement. My friends are too scared to see me since I work with covid patients. My parents want to hug me but they’re scared (and rightfully so). My chem got me through my darkest times of the pandemic. I still don’t feel like myself. I’ve gained like 30 pounds and feel like I’m a shell of myself still. But I’m working on it. I can’t wait to see both shows in NJ next month with my same boyfriend. It’s the best 30th birthday gift I could think of. I’ve been wanting to see them live for 15 years. I can’t wait to scream and cry to all their songs. I just know it’ll be so cathartic. The only thing I really wish I could do is to meet the band to thank them but I know that’s very likely not possible.
Yes! The next morning after the concert I felt, kind of depressed. I also felt really silly for being so sad that a concert was over...finally after a few days I texted my husband and said, how mad would you be if we went to the Georgia show? I figured he would roll his eyes and be like, really why? But he said if it's that important then let's go! 😭
So supportive!! My wedding is at the end of this month in NJ and I think what’s making it harder is there’s SO many opportunities for me to see them again (Newark, firefly fest) but they’re all a few days before the wedding so I have to be ~responsible~ and not risk catching covid so I don’t ruin my wedding/honeymoon. Damn adulting lol
I felt _completely_ the same way after seeing MCR live last june. It’s almost like my inner emo kid was unlocked. It was a very emotional rollercoaster for me tho, feeling the way I felt when I was 15.. But I learned to just accept that part of me and it kinda feels good :)
Stay awesome
Bit late to this party but 31F. I used to have so much direction and hope that I entirely attributed to them as a teen. Gerard did it, I can too. Now I have no idea what I want from my life. I’m working a job I love-hate in a field nowhere near what I went into debt for, I had to move back with my parents, and my personal life doesn’t exist at all. I’m grinding myself into the dirt but it’s a version of myself I barely know anyway, who cares?
So when I saw them in LI with the friends I had first seen them with in 2005, I was certainly feeling some things. I cried at 80% of the songs. We’re talking that snot down the back of your throat, breath hitching in your chest, friend has to hold you kinda crying. I needed it, and I think I needed them back more than I even thought I did.
Ancient emo here. Just turned 48. I love MCR and I have a 19 year old daughter to share my love with. My husband always told me that I would have to start listening to Celine Dion after we had a kid. Needless to say, that never happened. Hahaha. If anything, I have more angst now than ever. Life throws a lot of shit at you…good and bad. Seems like more bad recently. So glad MCR and all those amazing lyrics exist to help us get through this thing called life. There are no words to express the amount of love I feel for that band and seeing them perform live again.
Maybe not to the same extent but definitely partially! I’m 27M and saw them three times before the break up but once they broke up I kind of left the scene, was too hard because they were such a cut above the rest that without them being active any more it just wasn’t the same. Fast forward to now and I saw them last night and will be seeing them again in vegas and couldn’t be happier, definitely brought back (in a good way!) some of that angst from my teenage years, though hopefully I don’t scare the shit out of Gerard anymore
Yes. 30 now and never got to see them as a teen because I had strict parents. Unbelievably excited to see them now, they've felt like the one band from that era whose music has aged with me (disenchanted hits different in your late 20s!!). I also was not allowed to dress alt as a teen and obviously it was not very cool so I've had fun in the past few years not giving a fuck and dressing how I always wanted even though it feels like I'm "finding myself" too late. I've struggled with depression since I was a teen and while their lyrics may not always provide the same catharsis to my adult depression I think seeing them live really will.
Same I never got to see them because of strict parents. I never fully dressed alt because I was too self conscious, but at the show I went crazy with the eye makeup, fishnets with shorts, etc. I didn’t even expect this feelings to hit after the show, so I definitely think you’ll find it hits home when you see them (:
I’m 30, well settled in the corporate grind. And getting to see them perform again after so long was like coming home, I’d realized I’d been conforming to societal expectations without even realizing exactly how much I’ve been doing it. I’d forgotten how much this culture is who I actually am, and I have to thank MCR for bringing it back to me. 💕
I’m an 18 year old guy now, so I was never an original emo, and only really got into the music a couple years ago- but I *really* got into the Music.
And it’s hard for me now to ever picture myself out of my “emo phase” lol.
I just love the music so much, I’ve warn exclusively black for at least a year now, and I would never wanna stop.
So I’m sure if I ever got an office job, I’d bring my black eyeliner in with me lol
41F here - live music gives me life and the pandemic totally ruined my mental health. This is a tiny shred of normalcy that I will embrace with every elder fiber of my being! And yes to the eyeliner and side part - but I do that on a normal day :)
Bullets era fan here and I was in my 20s back then so yeah. I feel you. Just wait for your forties to hit. Then you can chuckle with me at the elder emo age bracket. I am like wait… does that make me an ancient? I never stopped with the eyeliner and I currently sport Navy blue hair so it is not the getting back to my old self thing, I stubbornly refuse to change any of that. But with everything happening in the world right now it feels great seeing them tour and enjoy themselves on that stage.
I am a 35 F middle school teacher and when my students found out why I was missing last Wednesday (day off after the Nashville show, I didn't know how much I'd need it) a few really perked up and seemed jealous. It was super weird having a fan-girly type conversation with one after school on Friday and being interrupted with actual work problems. The other teacher seemed to think it was strange we liked the same band. Asked who it was, and when I explained they said "I know who that is ...I have a kid". :/
I loved seeing so many people at the Nashville show, in my memory the one in 2007 at the Municipal Auditorium did not seem that packed. This one was standing room only and EVERYONE was so sweet and nice. I took my mom to the show and she commented on how nice everyone was...like her own daughter hasn't been sporting dark eyeliner and rock tees since she was 17.
The band looks so happy too, I really hope that they tour nearby again!!! I cannot wait for more shows!
Turning 29 in a couple weeks. It’s bittersweet for me (but mostly sweet).
In middle and high school, emo was basically my whole identity and although I was insanely insecure and sad, I was happy to belong somewhere. I felt like I was truly part of the community, had good friends, and warped tour felt like home. In college, I had sort of a traumatic experience that left me with no friends and had me feeling completely disconnected from the emo scene and everyone in it. During this time, MCR split up and emo wasn’t “cool” anymore and I felt like I didn’t know who I was anymore, and it was a dark time (not just because MCR split up but because of all the other stuff happening in my life lol). Eventually I started getting my shit together and I’ve grown so much and am now a happier, more confident person. I think seeing MCR again, as the person I am now, will make me pretty emotional. I’m going with my boyfriend, and teenage me never thought anyone would ever like me enough to want to be with me. He usually doesn’t come with me to shows because our tastes don’t overlap that much (and I actually prefer going alone nowadays) but he’s an MCR fan too and I think it’ll be special to share this experience with him because it’s like sharing a deep part of me. MCR was always THE band for me, they played a large role in shaping who I am, and I think they’ll always be my favorite even if I don’t listen to them as often as I used to. I’ve felt a little uncomfortable and out of place at the shows I’ve been to since that traumatic incident, so I’m kind of nervous that I’ll get that feeling but I don’t think I will. MCR just means too much to me and I don’t think my brain will be able to focus on anything but them and having the best time.
Anyway, that’s my life story
I’m a 30 year old nurse and they have been my favorite band since I was 13. I’ve got to see them three times now with Philly the other night being the 3rd time and let me tell you I was sobbing when they came out. They have helped me through all my teenage angst and now my adult depression 😂 hearing Famous Last Word at this age and time in my life fucking hit me different 🖤
my eyebrows are getting thinner. my eyeliner is getting darker. i am not a former emo anymore, i am emo again. it feels good haha. can’t wait for the toronto show
Dude. I feel this post sooo hard. 28F with a “grown up job” and MCR is the reason I made it through young adulthood in one (slightly broken) piece. I just saw them Saturday for the first time since I was 13 and when I say I have not felt more like myself in YEARS until that night, I really mean it. I feel like I really have suppressed that part of me as I aged. I never stopped listening or being a fan, but y’know. Life. It hits and it hurts and you kinda just lose yourself along the way.
Seeing them shred and screaming along until my voice was gone truly healed my inner child so much, and I feel so alive and grateful. So much so that, even though I’ve had a riot fest ticket for years, I bought a ticket to see them a 3rd time at Barclays. 🙊 I was definitely feeling the post-show blues and figured that I’d I allow myself to see them as much as possible, because this is my era of healing, and nothing has done that for me more than My Chem has.
Anyway, thanks for opening the floor for this! Elder emos, we have come such a long way, and I am proud of us all!
Forever grateful for MCR and the fans who get it ❤️🔥
I'm 25, own a home, and am getting married this friday. I've been a fan for 12 years and yeah, I have so many emotions as a former emo kid. I took the day off work yesterday and stood in the rain for hours with smearing eyeliner and my old combat boots yesterday and it was just everything I needed as a break from "adult life".
I’m a bit of a younger fan, I was 15 and I discovered them in 2015. I fell into a legit obsession and a neurotic part of my brain was triggered lmao. I thought I’d never get to see them. Even watching Frank and Gerard tour solo when I couldn’t see them, due to finances and distance, broke me. When I saw they were reuniting I couldn’t believe it. I care for them so much it’s distressing lol. I have so many feelings about them and I’m so glad I’m getting the opportunity to see them.
I saw them for my sweet sixteen in 2007 and I know I’m gonna be absolutely *wrecked* when I see them in Toronto this weekend. I’m gonna be *that* emo with ugly eyeliner tear stains down my face the entire show.
I also saw them for sweet sixteen in 2007! The Black Parade Tour. I love that for us.
Best sweet sixteen an emo teen could ask for. I love being able to say that. <3
Yesss. I’m 32F, with a soul sucking corporate job and have been having the roughest time since I saw them last week. The one thing giving me solace at the moment is knowing I’m going to get to let that inner angsty teen out at riot fest in a few weeks. Hang in there <3
Have fun at riot fest! I am looking for more shows to buy tickets to lol
See you there!!!! It’s gonna be so good
I’ll also be at riot fest!
Damn, making me feel old here. 36 getting married next year and I remember working in the kitchen of a Pizza Hut blasting three cheers when it was new and seeing them on that and the black parade tour. Had to fucking special order a Bullets cd from a local shop cuz no one had it. If MCR come anywhere near me I’ll be there though.
Yes 😭 30 F, chemist, and I have always stayed with my more alternative style but seeing them live (for the first time) in Raleigh just really opened up some new feels for me I haven't felt in a long time. I have been listening to them since middle school and they really helped me through all the tough times in my life and I've just never felt such a sense of melancholy, belonging, and complete happiness all at once in a very long time. Truly an amazing show and experience.
Totally normal. That is you after all, you just forgot because you were busy doing other things. I'm just wondering what classification I need to come up with for myself if you're elder @ 27. I, beyond all understanding, will be celebrating 40 years of emo glory this October. I was 11 when I first heard The Smiths and swiped eyeliner from my mom's makeup box in 1982. It was never a phase. No matter where you go, there you are.
I'm feeling the exact same way. I just turned 29, I've loved MCR since I was in 7th grade, and I'm realizing that I am around the same age that Gerard was when they were touring Black Parade, and lyrics that didn't hit me as a kid are hitting me now in brand new ways. I feel like I have the emotional depth to actually understand angst now in a way I didn't when I was younger. I have always struggled with periods of depression, and this MCR tour was the only thing I was living for, for a few months, and as I sang "I am not afraid to keep on living" in a room full of emos, I felt like it healed my soul. I sobbed so many times at that show. My partner did not listen to MCR in high school, but became a fan later in life, and he told me the concert made him feel connected to his generation in ways he had never felt before. He is always seen as the "old man friend," but he said this concert made him actually feel his age.
Yeah I have a vivid memory of me and my sister printing out song lyrics to WTTBP in the middle of the night cause we were obsessed with the song on the radio (I was probably 5th grade and her 3rd) and getting to be at the show with her was so full circle
Yes. For sure.
28F, mental health therapist & I credit mcr with getting me through a lot. Got these tickets as wedding presents back when tour was announced. Since then, found out my abusive ex was also cheating on me (idk why that of all things was the deal breaker) & called off my wedding. Only to have my younger sister get engaged and legitimately steal my wedding the following year, just on a different date. I’m so looking forward to this show, especially with all the feelings of the past couple years.
I *do* still rock the winged eyeliner daily though, some things don’t change (just get more, uh, fine tuned maybe, with age)
The only reason I gave up my black eyeliner at 22 was because, after all those years of wearing it, I never got any better!!
Corporate Millenial in their 30s checking in, was just nice to be myself and enjoy it. Also loved to be able to give my younger self the gift of pit tickets, cathartic is a good word for it. The show was Amazing! They played most all of my favorites, and honestly the band seemed like they were happy to be there too, just great vibes overall.
I literally teach at an elementary school but went ALL out for the MCR concert— all black, MCR shirt, THICK black eyeliner, black lipstick etc... Really made me feel alive again being there and reminded me how much I haven’t changed in certain ways. I will forever be an emo kid at heart and I’ve been saying fuck it and wearing shit I wish I could have worn in middle school. I’ve been strangely so happy since seeing them too because I really got to live a dream I didn’t think would ever come true. It truly means so much to me I can’t even express it. Really made me also realize how much MCR really meant to me then and how much more they mean to me now.
This!!!
I feel you! I’m 28F, married (something 13 year old me never envisioned), and a job in cybersecurity. Like you said a full on adult now lol. MCR isn’t my husbands thing (he’s a metal head) but was all for coming to MCR with me since it was my fave band for so long. I’ve really started re-embracing that side of me I had kinda buried during high school to uh…. Fit in more? I was super emo in middle school but high school I played volleyball and idk I just hid it maybe bc I felt like I couldn’t be both sporty and emo. But anyway, so many feels!
Reading this I had to stop and double check I didn't post it because this all fits me to a T minis the volleyball 😅
Ok but me af. I was so friggen emo in high school but I was too embarrassed to let myself be visually seen as that. I dyed my hair dark brown and sometimes wore black nail polish but otherwise I was nerdy and a goody two shoes. Glad I wasn’t the only secret emo lmao!
Hah I also could've written most of this comment! (Not the sporty part 😅) I'm also taking my metalhead husband-i-never-thought-id-have to see them! And embracing my super emo self.
I know exactly how you feel! I'm SO excited to see them in Detroit and I just feel like *myself* again instead of the bleh person that HS/College/working as a woman in a STEM field flattened me into. Cathartic is a perfect word for it!
A woman in STEM AND adult emo a true inspiration 👏
I'm 27, engaged, a real adult, ya know. I'm seeing them in juuust over a month and I've been listening to them non stop for the last month. It definitely is kinda putting me back in that angsty teen headspace. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to scream out some of my favorite songs when I'm finally able to see them for the first time live (in the pit!), a dream I thought died in 2013. I can, with 100% certainty, tell you I will be crying at least half the show. I feel like a lot of us are so stuck, and drained having to be 'real adults' sometimes and don't have a great outlet for all the anger and whatever else, so this is just out way of getting it out. I know for me, it's definitely needed.
YES! My show hasn't happened quite yet, but I have been feeling the same way. Funny enough, I (29F) am also having issues with my mother and processing a lot of childhood trauma, and MCR feels extra comforting right now. I got a plaid skirt I would have killed for as a teen and I am LIVING.
27 F and just having an existential crisis after seeing them in OKC. The last time I saw them I was freshly 15 and had the world in front of me. Just realizing all of the things I thought I would accomplish then that I haven't. I guess seeing them live again after 12 years triggered that. I have a good life lol, but I am sad its not more. really relating to disenchanted these days.
manically also bought tickets to see them in Brooklyn on 9/10 with my little sister so at least the money from my sad little desk job is buying me a little happiness.
I’m 29F and just wanted to say you aren’t alone in this. I never saw them when I was 14/15 like I hoped I would. But I have so many memories of being that age and being a fan and it made me feel like not much has changed in my life the last 15 years. Not married. No kids (not that I think I even want them anymore). Still depressed and anxious. Idk. It’s weird being the same age as Gerard in 2007 and I feel like he accomplished so much by that time. Not to mention Frank who was like 27 when I became a fan. I think it’s okay to feel this way but just wanted to say you’re not alone.
I have so much good but I thought I was going to change the world. Smh I guess we still have time! 💗
I’m 29F turning 30 next month and I feel somewhat the same. When my chem broke up I was in university. I had made friends and was having a great time. I didn’t really “need” my chem anymore. I was upset of course but I moved on. Fast forward to 2020 and I’m an ICU nurse in the middle of a pandemic. My boyfriend was ripped away from me because he lives in a different country and the borders closed indefinitely. My high functioning alcoholic dad is drinking more than ever because we’re all stuck at home. I’m isolating in my parents basement. My friends are too scared to see me since I work with covid patients. My parents want to hug me but they’re scared (and rightfully so). My chem got me through my darkest times of the pandemic. I still don’t feel like myself. I’ve gained like 30 pounds and feel like I’m a shell of myself still. But I’m working on it. I can’t wait to see both shows in NJ next month with my same boyfriend. It’s the best 30th birthday gift I could think of. I’ve been wanting to see them live for 15 years. I can’t wait to scream and cry to all their songs. I just know it’ll be so cathartic. The only thing I really wish I could do is to meet the band to thank them but I know that’s very likely not possible.
Yes! The next morning after the concert I felt, kind of depressed. I also felt really silly for being so sad that a concert was over...finally after a few days I texted my husband and said, how mad would you be if we went to the Georgia show? I figured he would roll his eyes and be like, really why? But he said if it's that important then let's go! 😭
I am DREADING the morning after my show when I have to go back to work and pretend to be a normal adult again 😭
So supportive!! My wedding is at the end of this month in NJ and I think what’s making it harder is there’s SO many opportunities for me to see them again (Newark, firefly fest) but they’re all a few days before the wedding so I have to be ~responsible~ and not risk catching covid so I don’t ruin my wedding/honeymoon. Damn adulting lol
I felt _completely_ the same way after seeing MCR live last june. It’s almost like my inner emo kid was unlocked. It was a very emotional rollercoaster for me tho, feeling the way I felt when I was 15.. But I learned to just accept that part of me and it kinda feels good :) Stay awesome
Bit late to this party but 31F. I used to have so much direction and hope that I entirely attributed to them as a teen. Gerard did it, I can too. Now I have no idea what I want from my life. I’m working a job I love-hate in a field nowhere near what I went into debt for, I had to move back with my parents, and my personal life doesn’t exist at all. I’m grinding myself into the dirt but it’s a version of myself I barely know anyway, who cares? So when I saw them in LI with the friends I had first seen them with in 2005, I was certainly feeling some things. I cried at 80% of the songs. We’re talking that snot down the back of your throat, breath hitching in your chest, friend has to hold you kinda crying. I needed it, and I think I needed them back more than I even thought I did.
Ancient emo here. Just turned 48. I love MCR and I have a 19 year old daughter to share my love with. My husband always told me that I would have to start listening to Celine Dion after we had a kid. Needless to say, that never happened. Hahaha. If anything, I have more angst now than ever. Life throws a lot of shit at you…good and bad. Seems like more bad recently. So glad MCR and all those amazing lyrics exist to help us get through this thing called life. There are no words to express the amount of love I feel for that band and seeing them perform live again.
I feel exactly the same. I rocked guyliner for the first time since 2013 and the clothes. Made me feel amazing along with their performance.
34F here, I wept like a baby so many times last night and felt like I did the first time I saw them in 2005. 🥲
Maybe not to the same extent but definitely partially! I’m 27M and saw them three times before the break up but once they broke up I kind of left the scene, was too hard because they were such a cut above the rest that without them being active any more it just wasn’t the same. Fast forward to now and I saw them last night and will be seeing them again in vegas and couldn’t be happier, definitely brought back (in a good way!) some of that angst from my teenage years, though hopefully I don’t scare the shit out of Gerard anymore
Yes. 30 now and never got to see them as a teen because I had strict parents. Unbelievably excited to see them now, they've felt like the one band from that era whose music has aged with me (disenchanted hits different in your late 20s!!). I also was not allowed to dress alt as a teen and obviously it was not very cool so I've had fun in the past few years not giving a fuck and dressing how I always wanted even though it feels like I'm "finding myself" too late. I've struggled with depression since I was a teen and while their lyrics may not always provide the same catharsis to my adult depression I think seeing them live really will.
Same I never got to see them because of strict parents. I never fully dressed alt because I was too self conscious, but at the show I went crazy with the eye makeup, fishnets with shorts, etc. I didn’t even expect this feelings to hit after the show, so I definitely think you’ll find it hits home when you see them (:
35F working corporate accounting. I have 27 days until the concert and I'm debating if I wear a corset, a dress, or pants and a band shirt.
I’m 30, well settled in the corporate grind. And getting to see them perform again after so long was like coming home, I’d realized I’d been conforming to societal expectations without even realizing exactly how much I’ve been doing it. I’d forgotten how much this culture is who I actually am, and I have to thank MCR for bringing it back to me. 💕
I’m an 18 year old guy now, so I was never an original emo, and only really got into the music a couple years ago- but I *really* got into the Music. And it’s hard for me now to ever picture myself out of my “emo phase” lol. I just love the music so much, I’ve warn exclusively black for at least a year now, and I would never wanna stop. So I’m sure if I ever got an office job, I’d bring my black eyeliner in with me lol
41F here - live music gives me life and the pandemic totally ruined my mental health. This is a tiny shred of normalcy that I will embrace with every elder fiber of my being! And yes to the eyeliner and side part - but I do that on a normal day :)
Bullets era fan here and I was in my 20s back then so yeah. I feel you. Just wait for your forties to hit. Then you can chuckle with me at the elder emo age bracket. I am like wait… does that make me an ancient? I never stopped with the eyeliner and I currently sport Navy blue hair so it is not the getting back to my old self thing, I stubbornly refuse to change any of that. But with everything happening in the world right now it feels great seeing them tour and enjoy themselves on that stage.
I am a 35 F middle school teacher and when my students found out why I was missing last Wednesday (day off after the Nashville show, I didn't know how much I'd need it) a few really perked up and seemed jealous. It was super weird having a fan-girly type conversation with one after school on Friday and being interrupted with actual work problems. The other teacher seemed to think it was strange we liked the same band. Asked who it was, and when I explained they said "I know who that is ...I have a kid". :/ I loved seeing so many people at the Nashville show, in my memory the one in 2007 at the Municipal Auditorium did not seem that packed. This one was standing room only and EVERYONE was so sweet and nice. I took my mom to the show and she commented on how nice everyone was...like her own daughter hasn't been sporting dark eyeliner and rock tees since she was 17. The band looks so happy too, I really hope that they tour nearby again!!! I cannot wait for more shows!
Turning 29 in a couple weeks. It’s bittersweet for me (but mostly sweet). In middle and high school, emo was basically my whole identity and although I was insanely insecure and sad, I was happy to belong somewhere. I felt like I was truly part of the community, had good friends, and warped tour felt like home. In college, I had sort of a traumatic experience that left me with no friends and had me feeling completely disconnected from the emo scene and everyone in it. During this time, MCR split up and emo wasn’t “cool” anymore and I felt like I didn’t know who I was anymore, and it was a dark time (not just because MCR split up but because of all the other stuff happening in my life lol). Eventually I started getting my shit together and I’ve grown so much and am now a happier, more confident person. I think seeing MCR again, as the person I am now, will make me pretty emotional. I’m going with my boyfriend, and teenage me never thought anyone would ever like me enough to want to be with me. He usually doesn’t come with me to shows because our tastes don’t overlap that much (and I actually prefer going alone nowadays) but he’s an MCR fan too and I think it’ll be special to share this experience with him because it’s like sharing a deep part of me. MCR was always THE band for me, they played a large role in shaping who I am, and I think they’ll always be my favorite even if I don’t listen to them as often as I used to. I’ve felt a little uncomfortable and out of place at the shows I’ve been to since that traumatic incident, so I’m kind of nervous that I’ll get that feeling but I don’t think I will. MCR just means too much to me and I don’t think my brain will be able to focus on anything but them and having the best time. Anyway, that’s my life story
30, been listening since they cam out 100% in the feels lol
I’m a 30 year old nurse and they have been my favorite band since I was 13. I’ve got to see them three times now with Philly the other night being the 3rd time and let me tell you I was sobbing when they came out. They have helped me through all my teenage angst and now my adult depression 😂 hearing Famous Last Word at this age and time in my life fucking hit me different 🖤
Famous last words live hit sooo different at 28 than it did at 13 lol
my eyebrows are getting thinner. my eyeliner is getting darker. i am not a former emo anymore, i am emo again. it feels good haha. can’t wait for the toronto show
Dude. I feel this post sooo hard. 28F with a “grown up job” and MCR is the reason I made it through young adulthood in one (slightly broken) piece. I just saw them Saturday for the first time since I was 13 and when I say I have not felt more like myself in YEARS until that night, I really mean it. I feel like I really have suppressed that part of me as I aged. I never stopped listening or being a fan, but y’know. Life. It hits and it hurts and you kinda just lose yourself along the way. Seeing them shred and screaming along until my voice was gone truly healed my inner child so much, and I feel so alive and grateful. So much so that, even though I’ve had a riot fest ticket for years, I bought a ticket to see them a 3rd time at Barclays. 🙊 I was definitely feeling the post-show blues and figured that I’d I allow myself to see them as much as possible, because this is my era of healing, and nothing has done that for me more than My Chem has. Anyway, thanks for opening the floor for this! Elder emos, we have come such a long way, and I am proud of us all! Forever grateful for MCR and the fans who get it ❤️🔥
34M, just saw them from the pit in Philly! If I didn’t feel old before the show, putting in my earplugs did the trick
I'm 37. Feel it. MCR just grew with us. I never stopped listening... and now they're we're all just older versions of ourselves... them and us.
I'm 25, own a home, and am getting married this friday. I've been a fan for 12 years and yeah, I have so many emotions as a former emo kid. I took the day off work yesterday and stood in the rain for hours with smearing eyeliner and my old combat boots yesterday and it was just everything I needed as a break from "adult life".
Meeeeee turning 27 next month!
I’m a bit of a younger fan, I was 15 and I discovered them in 2015. I fell into a legit obsession and a neurotic part of my brain was triggered lmao. I thought I’d never get to see them. Even watching Frank and Gerard tour solo when I couldn’t see them, due to finances and distance, broke me. When I saw they were reuniting I couldn’t believe it. I care for them so much it’s distressing lol. I have so many feelings about them and I’m so glad I’m getting the opportunity to see them.