Welcome to the Black Parade is one of My Chemical Romances most famous videos. The band, popular for anarchist lyrics and dark Punk songs, created this music video to be a piece of art as well as a song. The song uses shades of black and white as dominant themes and stabs at political ideas in its use of costume, making everyone a member of a war and victims of sorts. The main costume of the band are military uniforms for a "black" marching band, mentioned in the song. The rest of the cast are wearing similarly black costumes, mourning the loss that is sung about in the song, however moving forward to represent the overcoming of fear. The band is nearly always seen playing their instruments on top of a float that leads the parade. This is common for a rock band to appear as performers and not as characters. The editing is usually a quick cut to black then to the next scene, illustrating black as a theme of the song. The scenery is of a post apocalyptic city, showing the world that has been ruined behind these people escaping what has occurred there, a war. The song is illustrating the pain and suffering we need to move on from and become better than.
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