Hoo boy, here we bloody go, Gerard Way has praised Alex Lahey and friends on their absolutely spine-tingling cover of My Chemical Romance‘s monster hit, ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’.
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Yep. Gerard Way. From My Chemical Romance. Publicly shouted out Alex Lahey. In 2019. Right in front of my salad.
Taking to his Instagram this morning, the MCR singer/emo king of the world said that the cover – which Alex Lahey did for Like A Version last week – gave him chills, and fully backed the gang of musos leaning into the over-the-top theatrics of the track.
Gerard specifically loved the cymbal work by our fave Crocs-wearing legend G Flip, and honestly, knowing that he’s a fan of this cover is truly the only thing that’s getting me through this week.
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If this isn’t the highest form of praise you could get, then I simply don’t know what is.
He went on to give props to Alex for her debut album, I Love You Like A Brother, and I mean has anyone checked in on Alex to see that she’s ok? Can someone please do that?
I fully love and am into this timeline, and I simply have no choice but to spend my entire day listening to MCR’s back catalogue now.
Thank you thank you thank you for everything, @gerardway pic.twitter.com/rqwLsbmf38
— Alex Lahey (@AlexLahey) September 24, 2019
It’s a big ol’ emo day for Alex Lahey, who also announced that she’s going to be supporting City & Colour on his tour of Australia next year, so please, can someone just maybe send Alex over some new black nail polish, a Hot Topic gift card and maybe a stack of Alternative Press magazines?
It’s clearly 2006 again and I’m about two seconds away from going down the shops and buying the cheapest black pencil eyeliner I can and straight-up reverting back to my angsty teen days, here.
And if there’s anything that we can take away from Gerard fkn Way complimenting and supporting a Like A Version of his own damn song, it’s that this rendition of ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ 110% deserves a spot not only in the clearly-massive, multiple-disc compilation cd of 2019, but also hit real fucken high on the Hottest 100 for this year. It’s only right.
