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If This Confused Mom’s Concert Review Won’t Convince You to See My Chemical Romance Live, Then What Will?

Imagine going in with normal concert expectations and being met with an evil Lithuanian circus instead.

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By now, we all know the joke about the dad taking his teenage daughter to see One Direction and standing clueless in the audience. At the end of the day, there’s probably not much he took away from that experience. But on the other side of that coin, there’s the confused mom taking her daughter to see My Chemical Romance. And according to that mom’s social media review, she came to some interesting conclusions.

A woman named Binny posted her review of the My Chemical Romance show at Wembley Stadium, which she said she took her 13-year-old daughter to see. In the caption, she wrote, “POV: A 40-year-old woman who went to a My Chemical Romance concert expecting Barry Manilow levels of audience interaction… and got absolute glorious chaos instead.”

Generally, her confusion and concern seem good-natured, and it’s worth watching her entire video for her genuinely humorous observations. Often, it can be hit-or-miss for a My Chemical Romance live show, like the guy who posted a conspiracy theory that Gerard Way was possessed by a demon. You know, the normal stuff.

But Binny went into the Black Parade experience with no prior........

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