My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has admitted to “pandering” to his record company, Warner Music, on the band’s last studio album, 2006’s The Black Parade and making too many “safe decisions”.

“I started to feel on the last record like I was pandering, and that the money [we'd made] had put me in stasis,” he told US magazine Spin. “It’s like a trap: Stasis is death, and I started to make safe decisions.”

Way also added that he felt he didn’t go far enough for his fans on the band’s subsequent tours, too.

“We were going to these cities where there were hate crimes directed at the kids listening to us, the kids wearing all black,” he continued. “I retreated and stopped being on the crusade. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt.

“The light at the end of the tunnel was a friend reminding me I didn’t wear a Public Image Ltd pin on my jacket in high school because I wanted to get spit on, I wore it because I wanted to wear it. Our kids are the same way: It’s their fucking choice. I can’t protect them. I need to give them what they want.”
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