#dewees

tiny treat just for u 🖤

Happy 6th birthday, Nothing Above, Nothing Below

so he's a very long time close friend of everyone in mcr, has toured with them since 03 in various bands and then joined as a touring member for parade and then as their official fifth member just a few months before the breakup when they were working on the paper kingdom. ray and frank also recorded with him on his solo music shortly after the breakup, and of course he was in death spells with frank. in....late 2019 i believe? some women (including single mothers) came forward on instagram with accusations against him, saying they'd met him at shows where he'd used his connection to frank/mcr to pursue relationships with them and then later asked them for money to record his album with, and then ghosted them and, they claimed, spent the money on drugs. apparently he was doing this with multiple women at once, but i can't remember how many or the exact timeline - again, sorry for not attaching sources with this, i can't even remember the instagram's name. these women posted screenshots of conversations where he'd lied to them about money etc. Around then he was also doing instagram lives for a while (iirc promoting a fundraiser for, again, money to record an album) where he was acting pretty erratic, and then screenshots emerged of him complaining about not having been invited to play at the my chem reunion show and that gerard had essentially ghosted him. he said he confronted...either frank or gerard about it, i can't remember which, and they told him they hadn't invited him back to tour with my chem on frank's advice. dewees also claimed not to have gotten any royalties from mcr and fake your death, which he was the primary songwriter of, which is kind of fucked up if true but these women said he had a habit of lying about things like that. really unfortunate messy situation all round and not really our business i don't think - to be clear, all of these women were adults, so we're not talking about mcr covering up a predator in their ranks. it's a real shame he took financial and emotional advantage of these women and i hope they've all been able to move on and recover, but i genuinely hope he's doing better now and getting the support he needs.

burn my love notes ‘cause i’m off to heaven

He also told a story I had never heard b4 about when mcr was basically over in 2013 and they were in a big meeting with warner brothers or smthin and they hadn't like. Done any real music obviously, but Dewees had a song about chicken. And he played it for these warner brother execs. And I don't think they liked it very much but Mikey thought it was really fucking funny apparently.