Peak
77
Weeks
1
Score
73
Chart Year
2010
The video features a strangely garbed outlaw gang called the Killjoys (Gerard Way as Party Poison, Mikey Way as Kobra Kid, Ray Toro as Jet Star and Frank Iero as Fun Ghoul), who are being pursued in the badlands around Battery City by the sinister executive Korse (Morrison) of Better Living Industries (BL/ind) and his vampire-masked henchmen (the Draculoids); in between battles with Better Living, the gang are indulging in pornographic magazines, fast driving, and hacking vending machines. The Killjoys have a young girl named Missile Kid as one of their members (portrayed by Grace Jeanette), whom BL/ind is out to capture. At the end of the video, after a standoff, the Killjoys lie defeated on the ground, and Missile Kid has been captured by Korse and the Draculoids. Korse tells the Killjoys to "Keep running." The music video for later single "Sing" is a companion piece and continues the story of the Killjoys and BL/ind; the lyrics "keep running" tie it to "Na Na Na". In an interview with the band for KROQ-FM, Gerard Way revealed that members of the band Mindless Self Indulgence appear in the video, with guitarist Steve Righ? as DJ "Dr. Death Defying", and vocalist Jimmy Urine as the "main, tall Draculoid".[15] Urine was originally intended to play the roller skater "Show Pony", but was changed to a Draculoid as he cannot skate.[5] After the video's premiere, MTV released a "Pop-Culture Cheat Sheet" listing many of the movie and TV references in the video, including films such as Blade Runner, Easy Rider, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Ultraviolet and, perhaps most prominently, the "Mad Max" franchise.[16] There is also a reference to their previous album 'The Black Parade' at the 1:28 marker in the video where a half buried skeleton wearing a black marching jacket at the bottom of the screen can be seen. Similarly, one of the "Transmissions" by Dr. Death on the band's website features a Killjoy (presumably Party Poison) searching through an abandoned room, passing by Mikey Way's Black Parade uniform from the music videos Welcome to the Black Parade and Famous Last Words, and picking up one of the skull-designed masks featured in Black Parade merchandise, before finding the MOUSEKAT mask seen in the video for Na Na Na. On a related note, the MOUSEKAT character is featured in one of BL/ind's transmissions as a Mickey Mouse-style cartoon propaganda character promoting the drugs used to keep humans under BL/ind's influence, in the fictional reality that accompanies Danger Days. The band won Best Video at the 2011 NME Awards for this track.
The future is bulletproof! The aftermath is secondary It's time to do it now and do it loud Killjoys, make some noise! Na, na na, na, na na na Na na na, na na na Na, na na, na, na na na Na na na, na na na Na, na na, na, na na Na, na na na, na na Na, na na na na Drugs, gimme drugs Gimme drugs, I don't need it But I'll sell what you got Take the cash and I'll keep it Eight legs to the wall Hit the gas, (Kill em' all) And we crawl, and we crawl, and we crawl You be my detonator Love, gimme love Gimme love, I don't need it But I'll take what I want from your heart And I'll keep it in a bag, (In a box) Put an "X" on the floor Gimme more, gimme more, gimme more Shut up and sing it with me (Na, na na na, na na na) From mall security (Na, na na na, na na na) To every enemy (Na, na na na, na na na) We're on your property Standing in V formation (Na, na na na, na na na) Let's blow an artery (Na, na na na, na na na) Eat plastic surgery (Na, na na na, na na na) Keep your apology Give us more detonation More, gimme more, gimme more! "Oh let me tell you 'bout the sad man" Shut up and let me see your jazz hands Remember when you were a mad man Thought you was Batman And hit the party with a gas can? Kiss me, you animal! (Na, na na na, na na na) You run the company (Na, na na na, na na na) Fuck like a Kennedy (Na, na na na, na na na) I think we'd rather be Burning your information (Na, na na na, na na na) Let's blow an artery (Na, na na na, na na na) Eat plastic surgery (Na, na na na, na na na) Keep your apology Give us more detonation And right here, right now All the way in Battery City The little children raise their open filthy palms Like tiny daggers up to heaven And all the juvie halls And the Ritalin rats Ask angels made from neon and fucking garbage Scream out, "What will save us?" And the sky opened up Everybody wants to change the world Everybody wants to change the world But no one, no one wants to die Wanna try, wanna try, wanna try Wanna try, wanna try now I'll be your detonator (Na, na na na, na na na, na na na na) (Na, na na na, na na na) Make no apology (Na, na na na, na na na) It's death or victory (Na, na na na, na na na) On my authority Crash and burn, young and loaded (Na, na na na, na na na) Drop like a bullet shell (Na, na na na, na na na) Dress like a sleeper cell (Na, na na na, na na na) I'd rather go to Hell Than be in purgatory Cut my hair, gag and bore me Pull this pin, let this world explode
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct 16, 2010 | 77 | 49 |