# My Chemical Romance Blasts Kasabian Members as ‘Ignorant’ in On-Going Fued

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2007/01/my-chemical-romance-blasts-kasabian-members-as-ignorant-in-on-going-fued/
- Published: 2007-01-25T00:49:00-05:00
- Author: Max Hammer

[[No, it’s definitely not the Rosie and the Donald slug fest on the national airwaves,
but it’s getting almost as ugly as the verbal feud between two indie rock bands 
heats up. 
The whole sordid affair is either an ill-guided argument about what constitutes
good music, or a planned public relations stunt.

The popular emo boy band **My Chemical Romance** was slammed by the **Kasabian**‘
s lead singer **Tom Meighan, who called the band “clowns” with “make-up”. **(photo
to the left is Gerard Way of MCR)

In his interview with the _New Music Express_ (the “_Rolling Stone_ magazine of 
the U.K.”), **Meighan** volleyed an unwarranted series of bitch-slap fireballs at
the wildly successful MCR by comparing the band’s music to a group of “ventriloquists.”

[](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Kasabian-771637.jpg)

(photo to the right is Kasabian)

“[Their music] is weird and dark,” Meighan told NME. “They don’t have anything positive
to say. The only good news is that it won’t last. These clowns won’t be around for
much longer. Their make-up will flake off and the scene will die out. And it can’t
happen soon enough.”

It didn’t take long for MCR to bite back.

“It was obviously meant as a slam, but it was so poorly worded that it ended up 
sounding like a compliment!” MCR lead singer Gerard Way told NME. “‘Weird and dark?’…
that just makes them kinda ignorant. This band has never had a bullshit war ever.

I haven’t found an opponent worthy enough yet. If you’re gonna take me on, you’d
better have the balls for it! If you’re gonna talk shit about us, you’d better have
the juice. And we haven’t found anybody with the juice yet.”

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