"The Ghost of You"

My Chemical Romance is known as one of the most popular rock groups of modern day. Their songs have earned them top of the chart rating with nearly every single they have released, earning the band a lot of attention. However, My Chemical Romance is also known for their deep music videos, which often deal with historical events or social movements of the past. In this video “The Ghost of You” the band makes a statement on the atmosphere of World War 2. The video uses its verses to convey the image war presents at home. We see a dance, and the soldier’s proudly dressed in their uniforms at a dance. It reminds us of how different the world is when you aren’t in geographical region of the war, being directly effected by it. It also shows how the young soldiers viewed themselves as heros and of how the girls they left at home were proud their soldiers were going to war. When the song reaches the chorus the video flies into an eerie reproduction of D-Day as the US troups land on the beaches at Normandy. The video continues to flashes between the scene of the dance, and the struggle to gain control of the beach. Perhaps the flashes eventually turn into the soldier’s thoughts of home as the storms into France under fire, and as he watches his friends and comrades fall dead on the beach. The impression you get is that the soldier is thinking the very words MCR sings in the chorus.

“At the end of the world
or the last thing I see
you are
never coming home
never coming home”

The entire video hints at an eerie sense of loss, and at the tragedy that unfolded during World War 2. I also feel that the video gets is power of catharsis from the actual lyrics of the song, and the sequence from which they unfold.