Maybe send it over to someone you had a crush on, the sounds of Way screaming “ you don’t work here anymore” and “ sometimes I think I’ll die alone” either letting them know how you feel, or forcing them to report you to HR. ‘Cubicles’ is, for some reason, an anthem for office romances gone south. ‘Cubicles’ – (‘I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love’)
Maybe it’s not a surprise that it was covered on Glee. Its verses are unusually lo-fi for the over-the-top ridiculousness of ‘Danger Days’, but its anthemic, feel-good chorus of “ sing it for the boys/sing it for the girls/every time that you lose it sing it for the world” makes it feel a bit Live 8. A bonus, though, is that it only lasts two minutes. ‘This Is the Best Day Ever’ – (‘I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love’)ĭipping back into the Bonnie and Clyde-esque storyline of ‘Bullets’, ‘This is the Best Day Ever’ is not the best song on the album – far from it, it’s pretty repetitive and distorted. It’s beat-driven and sounds a bit like an air raid siren, having a lot more in common with MCR’s feature on kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! than any of their music. ‘Planetary (Go!)’ is nothing short of annoying. Maybe the big weakness of ‘Danger Days’ is that it works so well as a high concept, high gloss comic book-esque story that it rarely works as an actually listenable album.
It is hard to understand how anyone could get so upset about that and then write a song that features in a Transformers movie on the same record, but either way, the song sucks. So incensed were My Chemical Romance at being asked to write a song for a Twilight movie that they wrote ‘Vampire Money’, a very 2010 attack on the saga. Occasionally referred to as a self-empowerment anthem, ‘Destroya’ is built around drums and strongly inspired by Holi festival… while functioning as a criticism of religion. ‘Destroya’ – (‘Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys’)