{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "MCR and the Black Parade, ICP and the Dark Carnival - what was it with 2000s bands and gloomy festivities?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/679916493140525056/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>MCR and the Black Parade, ICP and the Dark Carnival - what was it with 2000s bands and gloomy festivities?</p></div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://raginrayguns.tumblr.com/post/679907063659380736/mcr-and-the-black-parade-icp-and-the-dark\" target=\"_blank\">raginrayguns</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/679769859587964929/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>That's\u2026 a good connection</p></blockquote><p>The original is Halloween, possibly specifically as portrayed in the nightmare before Christmas, though maybe thats a reach. Were scene kids&rsquo; clothes drawing on the same 70s/80s punk fashion as Tim Burton movies, or were they just taking directly from Tim Burton movies? I think there was a lot of the second</p></blockquote>\n<p>Yeah I don&rsquo;t really see Juggalos as Tim Burton fans though. At most they&rsquo;d have Harley Quinn car seat covers.</p>"}