Fuse interview gerard way biography

A little over a year after the disbandment of My Chemical Romance, frontman Gerard Way surprised his fans with a solo album, Hesitant Alien. The full-length was totally different from anything Way had done before, a move he considers to be very meticulous. 

"I’ve played with concepts so much in the past that it became a bit of a crutch.

I thought the biggest way to challenge myself was to not have a concept and kind of tie a visual concept together," the singer told Fuse.

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"The visuals…I did a bunch of these drawings...even before having the title, I was able to kind of nail down the look from being such a big fan of [David] Bowie and Iggy Pop and ‘70s glam. I honed in on that and I added a little bit of Roxy Music and then the title kind of came out of that, too. The thing about 'No Shows,' the song is about independence.

It took me a minute to really realiz