Welcome to the Why Am I Dead? Podcast. Hosts Karen and Violet listen to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance Album, then deconstruct and discuss with critical analysis. Each episode, a couple of tracks are covered and followed up with curious comments and inquiry. (consists of mostly Violet being a certified MCR listener, while Karen is absolutely not and is experiencing the album for the first time)
Episode 1
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In this episode, Karen and Violet! discuss the first four songs of The Black Parade: The End., Dead!, This Is How I Disappear, & The Sharpest Lives. In this episode, they dissect these four songs in how they tell the overall story, what "The Black Parade" is, and the themes that these songs bring, such as coming to terms with the news you are dying, dealing with someone that is dying, and how all of this might have an effect on someone's mental health for the people involved as well as the albums main character, "The Patient".
Episode 2
In this episode, Karen and Violet! discuss the next five songs on The Black Parade: Welcome to the Black Parade, I Don't Love You, House of Wolves, Cancer, and Mama. They go back and fourth discussing the main narrative of death and the process of dying told through these five songs with some of the most energetic songs - like Welcome to the Black Parade's theme of how the Patient refuses to die and even if he does he will carry on, or like in House of Wolves with the patient mocking religion and seemingly having fun being bad - but they also cover some of the most devastating on the album - like Mama, the story of how the Patient's actions have made his mother cry about who he has become, or Cancer: the most direct, straightforward, and heartbreaking song on the whole album. Karen and Violet! give their personal interpretations on these five songs and discuss the hard topic of death. DISCLAIMER: ALL MUSIC USED IN THIS VIDEO IS NOT OURS! IT ALL BELONGS TO MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE AND THE PROPER COPYRIGHT OWNERS! Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
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