In the latest evidence that emo is well and truly back in the mainstream, a Major League Baseball team is set to host their own 'emo night' in the 2023 season.
The team, the St. Louis Cardinals announced the 'emo night' as one of their themed nights for the upcoming homestand at Bursch stadium. Set to take place on August 4th, 'Cardinals Emo Night' will be commemorated by a My Chemical Romance referencing t-shirt that reads 'My Cardinal Romance'. Every ticket sold to the Cardinals Emo Night comes with one of the commemorative t-shirts, which can be seen below.
The announcement on the Cardinals website goes into further details as to what Cardinals Emo Night, reavling that an emo cover band will also perform on the night.
It reads "When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a baseball game. This is no dirty little secret -- Emo Night at Busch Stadium is Friday, August 4th when the Cards take on the Rockies. With the purchase of a special Theme Ticket, fans will take home an emo-inspired Cardinals t-shirt. Don't miss a pre-game concert by Taking Back Emo in the Budweiser Terrace! Sugar, the Cards won't go down swingin'."
It's not the first time this season that emo and more specifically, My Chemical Romance has infiltrated Major League Baseball either, earlier this year, the New York Yankees used Welcome To The Black Parade in a pre-season hype video package.
The world's most famous baseball club published in honour of their opening-day fixture against the San Francisco Giants. Featuring a movie-trailer-style voiceover set to the song's iconic intro, the hype video consists of a collage of historical Yankees footage, paying tribute not just to the baseball players but to the fans who fill the stands of their home stadium in The Bronx. The video ended in a rather celebratory manner, displaying classic Yankees victories as Welcome To The Black Parade hits its legendary finale.
Welcome To The Black Parade appears on My Chemical Romance's genre-defining 2006 record, The Black Parade.
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The hype video and the new Cardinals shirt are just the latest in a series of milestones for My Chemical Romance who just left Australian audiences amazed with a run of critically acclaimed live shows. The success of the six-show arena run that saw them supported by Jimmy Eat World is further testament to just how big they've become during their absence, as a new generation has gravitated towards their music.
The band released their first new original song since 2014, The Foundations of Decay last year.
Slow building, brooding, anthemic, drenched in emotion and yet somehow still bleeding jubilation, the six-minute track is a reminder of why My Chemical Romance are the undisputed icons of the MySpace era.
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