#mcr5 please

disclaimer: this isn't actually evidence of mcr5, this isn't based on stone cold facts, i just think this concept would be really cool

buckle up and get ready for a crack theory i came up with while half asleep on my floor last night🫡

so, we know this tour is themed after the rise and fall of a dictatorship - draag, this sort of militarized land as shown in the tour teaser videos. according to the description of one of these videos, draag cast away the band (called "the black parade" in this lore, not "mcr") into some kind of prison, but tbp was being brought back as it was the dictator's favorite band. if tbp was a band with enough anti-govt sentiments to be banished in the first place, why was draag bringing them back? - to make a draag propaganda album. mcr5, if you will.

(if any of you are clikkies, you may know the scaled & icy lore - to my understanding, it's tyclancy being forced to make an album to promote dema, which is why its so markedly different than tøp's other works. this is what inspired me - it's possible that mcr would try to do the same thing.)

it could start off something very pro-draag, but in an almost sarcastic way. the same way that vampire money is a massive promotion of hollywood & capitalism, when we can tell it's actually a tongue-in-cheek critique of those who 'sell out'. then, it would become steadily more and more unhinged - the music getting 'weirder', the lyrics becoming more upfront, losing the image that draag curated for them as they take back control of the narrative and use art as a weapon for change. if they wanted to be awesome they could perform one new song at each long live show, and have the shows slowly become more disheveled.

and then, the album closes with foundations of decay: a song all about how all things end and return to the world, which could perfectly represent the fall of an empire. it would also establish that long live is a prequel to swarm tour - swarm is the aftermath of this collapse, which is why foundations of decay was part of it.

and of course after the tour they could release professional versions of these live songs, making mcr5 into a reality.

i do believe that if mcr was going to come back and make new music, it would have to be very rebellious / political, along the vein that danger days and conventional weapons began to fall into. after all, if frank can write I Am Going To Kill The President Of The United States under the Obama administration, i can't even begin to think what they would cook up in this current political climate lmao

HBD PRINCESS !!

(unedited version bellow o_O)