So I dug around and sure enough people aren't too happy about this sudden and unexplained tragedy. People started asking questions, some are in denial like me, but most just want to know why they did this so suddenly. But the question still remains as to what happened to cause such things to happen. And what of the album they were working on? Will that be scrapped? Will it be released? So many questions left unanswered.
Some few have concluded that it may well be a publicity stunt, or that they're just getting fans riled up. Or that someone hacked into the website and posted above shown paragraph. It was so brief and vague that a lot of fans felt deceived, brokenhearted, and their trust broken as well.
I could understand the extent of heartbreak my fellow fans are having right now, with people posting photos and making GIF's and listening to all the albums they have with them. For 12 years they were with us, holding our hand as we struggled with our inner demons, fought the sadness that would have consumed us had we not taken their songs to heart, and helped us find who we are, and learned to accept ourselves.
If you've known me long enough, you'd know that this band was one of the few that had a major effect on how I am now. I heard "Helena" from their Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge album, released 2005, on the radio, and that was the start of my love for the band. I remember first hearing it on the radio, the chorus really getting to me, but I didn't get to listen to the entire song at first, so I had to wait for a chance to see it on TV. And sure enough I got to listen to it, and watch the amazing music video it came with. And since then, I've done nothing but admire each song, really listening to them.
Thus I was a fan of all their albums, knowing most if not all of the songs they have ever sang and released. Sure I wasn't a hardcore fan, but I was a fan nonetheless. I may not have had the chance to go to any of their concerts, but to be able to partake in the music, and the hope it came with, was something good enough for me.
They say that music can save lives, and sure enough they did. I read people saying that had it not been for My Chemical Romance, they would never have gotten to where they are now. They would have left the world of the living long before. And I can attest to that, for their songs are what drove me to keep hope alive inside me even though the world seemed cruel and haunting. When people in your life misunderstood you, they didn't. They told you that you will get through this, that you're strong, that you're destined to be greater than what you lead on to believe. They told you that you were accepted, that you have to be who you want to be, and that no matter how broken and beaten you are, you have to march on.
Again, I can understand the grief this sad news bring to everyone who grew up listening to them. Watching them at live concert, in their televisions, or computers, and listening to them all the time, or when things around them are crumbling down. They were a pillar we could lean on, a friend we can hang on to, a hand that guided us through the dark. They understood us, know of our struggles, and felt our pain.
It is with a sad heart that I take this news, but I refuse to believe that My Chemical Romance has died. I refuse to accept that they will die, burned into ashes. I refuse.
For I now that even if they DO die, the impact they have had on people's lives, the strength they sent to each and every one of us, the will to survive they bestowed to those who were about to break, it will all live on inside of us. In every song we have in our hearts, with every word we sing, with every lesson you had to teach.
"Your memory will carry on."
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