|
| Length = 53:56 | Label = Reprise | Last album = ''¡Venganza!'' (2009) | This album = ''Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' (2010) | Next album = ''The Mad Gear and Missile Kid'' (2010) | Misc = }} ''Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' is the fourth and final studio album by American alternative rock band My Chemical Romance. Like its predecessor,'' The Black Parade'', the album was produced by Rob Cavallo. It was released by Warner Music and Reprise Records on November 22, 2010. The final edition of the album and its music videos are set in a fictional post-apocalyptic California in the year 2019 (resembling the film ''Blade Runner''), in which a few outsiders dubbed 'Killjoys' are engaged in conflict with a nefarious corporation that seemingly controls the population. The 4 Killjoys are Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Jet Star, and Kobra Kid. The promotional tour for the album, The World Contamination Tour, lasted from October 2010 to February 2012 and saw concerts in Europe, America, Asia and Oceania. ''Danger Days'' topped the Billboard Rock Albums and'' ''Alternative Albums charts, and peaked at No. 8 in the overall ''Billboard'' 200 with 112,000 first week sales,〔(Kanye West Tops Billboard Chart With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ) MTV.com. Retrieved October 11, 2014.〕 as well as appearing in charts in numerous other countries. As of February 2011, Danger Days has sold over one million copies worldwide. ==Background== The album's concept is based around the lives of the "Killjoys", a group of rebellious rogues living in a post-apocalyptic California, in the year 2019 (a reference to the film Blade Runner). Promotional websites for the album reference the alleged 2012 doomsday prediction as a possible cause of the fictional catastrophe. Like many concept records, the band members are in character, in the case of this album, as their "Killjoy" alter-egos: "Party Poison" (Gerard Way), "Jet Star" (Ray Toro), "Fun Ghoul" (Frank Iero), and "Kobra Kid" (Mikey Way), which can be seen in the music videos for "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" and "Sing". The Killjoys are a group of outlaws who are fighting against the evil corporation Better Living Industries (BL/ind.) and its various "Draculoids" and exterminators, such as Korse (Grant Morrison), from the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W Unit. The character aliases were originally the names of their "designer" guns.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NME: "My Chemical Romance: 'Our new album's not a concept record' – video" )〕 Their guide is a pirate radio DJ named Dr. Death Defying who is voiced by Steve Montano (also known by the stage name "''Steve, Righ?''" when performing with Mindless Self Indulgence〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Digging Underneath The Mythology: The Danger Days Of My Chemical Romance )〕). Two of the album's music videos show a little girl known as The Girl (Grace Jeanette) and Dr. Death Defying's sidekick 'Show Pony' (played by a performer known as Ricky Rebel〔https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ricky-Rebel/223695059369〕). '"Na Na Na" shows the Killjoys' daily lives until Korse defeats them and captures The Girl, while "Sing" shows the Killjoys' rescue mission to get her back. The final track, "Vampire Money", was a reaction to the band being asked to do a song for the ''Twilight'' franchise. Gerard Way said that the reason the song was on the album was because "there’s a lot of people chasing that fucking money. ‘Twilight?’ A lot of people around us were like, ‘please, for the love of God, do this fucking movie.’ But we’d moved on." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|