“Art is the weapon. Your imagination is the ammunition. Stay dirty, and stay dangerous. Create and destroy as you see fit.” – My Chemical Romance
The new music video for My Chemical Romance’s latest single “The Kids From Yesterday” is uber-special because, not only is it built around a song that genuinely kicks some major rock booty, but also because it was directed by one of their fans.
Although the song itself is a newly released single, it comes off their album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, which was released in late 2010. So for fans, this has been long awaited.
According to the band, “The Kids From Yesterday” was their “collective favorite” (and the last single they’re releasing from the album), and initially they set out to make a sort of video collage music video that showed “the progression of the band over the past 10 years leading up to” one of their “most memorable moments”, when they closed the Reading and Leeds festivals last summer.
In collecting footage and doing their research, MCR stumbled upon a YouTube video made by one of their talented fans named Emily Eisemann, in which she cleverly pulled together and edited video footage of the band that spanned the 10 years that they had been together (going on 11 years now).
Impressed, they called her up and asked that she direct “The Kids” video, and as they put it simply on their website, “the rest…is history”.
The talent of this girl blows my mind.
Check out her work directing the band’s single below, followed by her original video collage.
