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Teenagers (song)
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This article documents a current single. Information is likely to change as the song remains on the charts. |
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| Single by My Chemical Romance from the album The Black Parade |
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| Released |   July 9, 2007  August 31, 2007 September 14, 2007 |
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| Format | 7" vinyl CD Digital download |
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| Recorded | 2006 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, Disputed subgenres | ||||
| Length | 2:41 | ||||
| Label | Reprise Records | ||||
| Writer | My Chemical Romance | ||||
| Producer | Rob Cavallo, My Chemical Romance | ||||
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"Teenagers" is the fourth single and the eleventh track from My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade. It is the third U.S. single from the album, but it is the fourth single released in the UK, the Philippines, Australia and Canada. This song is the band's twelfth overall single. It was made available for download for the Xbox 360's Guitar Hero II game on August 15, 2007, along with "Famous Last Words", and "This Is How I Disappear", adding to their song shipped with the game, "Dead!".
Gerard Way is quoted as saying that he wrote the song after finding himself in a New York subway car full of high schoolers: "That was the first time I felt old...I was nervous and I was a target. I felt like I had become a parent figure or part of the problem."[1]
About the relationship between the song and concerns about gun violence, Way said
That song almost didn't fit on the record but it's a topic that's so important to our culture. It's about a really big problem in America where kids are killing kids. The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.
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- Teenagers (radio edit) – 2:38[3]
Version 2 (CD and 7" vinyl)
- "Teenagers" – 2:41
- "Dead!" (live from E-Werk in Berlin on October 14, 2006) – 3:16[4]
Version 3 (7" vinyl)
- "Teenagers" – 2:41
- "Mama" (live from the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on March 22, 2007) – 5:00[5]
Version 4 (CD)
- "Teenagers" – 2:41
- "Dead!" (live at E-Werk in Berlin on October 14, 2006) – 3:16
- "Mama" (live from the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on March 22, 2007) – 5:00[6]
Version 5 (digital download)
- "Teenagers" – 2:41
- "Teenagers" music video – 2:51
- Video of "I Don't Love You" performed at Sessions@AOL – 3:57
The video version of the song seems to have some added audio. During and onwards the lyrics "They say all teenagers scare the living shit out of me", there are piano notes playing in the background in the style of western music. The album version of the song does not have this piano playing until the coda.
The video has several references to the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall (Gerard Way is even seen wearing a patch that looks to be the 'Hammer Cross' emblem from the film on his sleeve, an emblem featured prominently in the "In the Flesh?" and "In the Flesh" sequences of the film, which this video most strongly resembles, but this has been disproven, as it is only a large 'T' similar to the ones seen on the cheerleader's uniforms). Some fans claim that the beginning of the video is reminiscent Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
The video is also strongly reminiscent of the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by grunge rock band Nirvana from their CD Nevermind. The use of a high school setting, the use of cheerleaders, as well as ending with the assembled students storming stage scene, have become synonymous with the 1991 Samuel Bayer hit video. The music video was posted by the band via their YouTube channel on May 30 and has since then been one of the most watched video on YouTube obtaining over 40 million views. Sometime around November 1, 2007, the video passed the Famous Last Words video as the third most played video on the site. This version of the video only cuts out the word "shit". The MTV version differs from the YouTube version slightly, notably the teenagers breaking in was cut out in the MTV version, as in certain incidences was the guitar solo by member of the band Ray Toro. The video has debuted on Total Request Live. The video also premiered in Canada on June 26, 2007.
This video made its world premiere in New Zealand. The reasons for New Zealand getting the premiere are as of yet unknown and multiple pirated versions of the video surfaced on the net a few days before the American debut.
The song entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at #2, before debuting at #87 on the Hot 100 the following week as the "Hot Shot" debut of the week at #87, and has so far peaked at #67. It has so far reached #41 on the Pop 100, and #13 on Modern Rock Tracks. It has also debuted at #42 in the UK, and has gone onto become the band's fourth straight top 20 hit from The Black Parade and their third top ten hit from the album. In addition it is their fourth straight #1 from The Black Parade in the Philippines. It debuted at number 16 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
| Chart | Peak position |
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| Argentina | 2 |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 16 |
| Billboard Hot 100 | 67 |
| Billboard Pop 100 | 41 |
| Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 13 |
| Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 39 |
| Billboard Canadian Hot 100 | 58 |
| Billboard Hot Canadian Digital Songs | 41 |
| Greenland Singles Chart | 9 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 7 |
| iTunes Top Singles | 40 |
| Latvian Airplay Top[7] | 12 |
| MYX Philippines | 1 |
| Polish National Top 50[8] | 24 |
| New Zealand Top 40 Singles Chart | 5 |
| TRL Countdown | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 9 |
| Uraguay Singles Chart | 19 |
| Entertainmenthit[9] Top 40 | 9 |
| American Top 40 | 23 |
| Czech IFPI Chart[10] | 32 |
| Israeli Singles Chart | 4 |
The video for Teenagers can be seen and heard on the television in one scene of the television series Bionic Woman, in the episode "Do Not Disturb"
- ^ Fresh from the Garden State, in Black Leather and Eyeliner, The New York Times, 22 October, 2006.
- ^ "MCR discuss high school gun crime", New Musical Express, 25 October 2006.
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- ^ Latvian Airplay Top
- ^ Polish National Top 50
- ^ http://www.entertainmenthit.com Entertainmenthit.com
- ^ http://www.ifpicr.cz/hitparada/index.php?a=titul&hitparada=2&titul=145043&sec=4aee90fc43da66f54b6dec54625349b7
http://www.entertainmenthit.com
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| Gerard Way • Ray Toro • Frank Iero • Mikey Way • Bob Bryar Matt Pelissier • Matt Cortez |
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| Studio albums | I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love • Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge • The Black Parade |
| Live album | Life on the Murder Scene • Untitled second live DVD |
| EPs | Like Phantoms, Forever • Warped Tour Bootleg Series • AOL Sessions • Live and Rare |
| Demos | Dreams of Stabbing and/or Being Stabbed |
| Singles | "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us" • "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" • "Headfirst for Halos" • "Our Lady of Sorrows" • "Thank You for the Venom" • "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" • "Helena" • "Under Pressure" (with The Used) • "The Ghost of You" • "Welcome to the Black Parade" • "Famous Last Words" • "I Don't Love You" • "Teenagers" • "Mama" |
| Related | Discography • Pencey Prep • Leathermouth • The Umbrella Academy • The Black Parade World Tour • Eyeball Records • Reprise Records • Projekt Revolution |