My Chemical Romance have begun teasing something on social media, sending fans into a frenzy – check it out below.
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Late on Monday night (November 11), the band shared an image of a hazy city skyline with confetti falling and Russian letters that when translated, read “TPK”. My Chemical Romance captioned the cryptic post: “If you could be anything, what would you be?”
See the post below.
Fans have naturally begun freaking out on social media, suggesting that the band have begun teasing their scrapped 2013 album ‘The Paper Kingdom’. In 2013, it was revealed that the band had completed six songs from the record, but they scrapped the album and broke up the following year.
In 2014, frontman Gerard Way described the album in an interview following the band’s split: “So that My Chem record that didn’t get made it was really, not only was it really dark […] I was basically finding anything else to do besides write music […] it’s like, I cared what the songs were, but like it’s gonna be a bunch of dark stuff and we’re going to build costumes and stage sets, and it’s going to be this storyline about a support group of parents who are dealing with the loss of their children so they make up this story about the children all being missing in the woods and fighting this witch and that was what it was about. It was called ‘The Paper Kingdom’. And there may be a time in my life where I want to do ‘The Paper Kingdom’. And maybe it’s a book, or maybe it’s something else.”
You can see reactions to the tease below.
is it appropriate to say this might be paper kingdoms but with a different storyline bc the confetti (paper) and the towers in the back (kingdoms) or am i reaching too far pic.twitter.com/wVuNcgRjVz
— YuriMaster3000 🫀🍽️ (@dethspllz) November 11, 2024
NOBODY FUCKING MOVE WHAT THE FUCK ARE MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE COOKING pic.twitter.com/txgvjH8hYI
— @thorthehusky2005.bsky.social (@thorlarshanson) November 11, 2024
“if you could be anything what would you be?”
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE STOP SPEAKING IN FUCKING RIDDLES pic.twitter.com/ZoQPHrlmRQ
— Ambar* (@Arod_a_) November 11, 2024
Babe wake up My Chemical Romance is teasing something again and I’ve convinced myself again it’s mcr5
— Audrey⁷ (@audrey__fangirl) November 11, 2024
The tease comes after My Chemical Romance quashed hopes of a reunion album earlier this year after a series of strange posts emerged on their Facebook. Scepticism grew when the band proceeded to post a number of bizarre posts, leading fans to question if there was a legitimate reunion on the horizon or if they were hacked. Writing on Instagram, they said: “Our Facebook got hacked,” warning fans: “Don’t believe everything you read!”
However, it would seem that the newly-posted tease isn’t a hoax: fans were quick to spot that My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero and Mikey Way have shared and liked the post respectively.
MIKEY AND FRANK LIKED OT AND FRANK REPOSTED IT
MCR5 IS REAL, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE IS BLACKKKK pic.twitter.com/JrEgON7Jfg
— Ambar* (@Arod_a_) November 11, 2024
The emo icons wrapped up their lengthy reunion tour in March last year. Their first show back together took place in December 2019, and their COVID-delayed world tour began with two shows at The Eden Project in Cornwall in 2022. They most recently performed ‘The Black Parade’ in full for the first time since 2007 at When We Were Young Festival.
The band’s most recent material was 2022’s ‘The Foundations of Decay’ – a surprise single that marked their first new release in eight years, with their last full-length album being 2010’s ‘Danger Days’.
