Although it doesn’t appear to be a contractual obligation, it sometimes seems as if any major act playing New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium has to acknowledge the setting. Both Coldplay and Zach Bryan brought out Bruce Springsteen during recent shows there, and this weekend, My Chemical Romance continued the tradition by covering what frontman Gerard Way referred to as “what may be the New Jersey state anthem”: Bon Jovi ’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.”

At the band’s show Saturday, part of its Long Live the Black Parade Tour, MCR played its entire The Black Parade album in its entirety. But to close out the show, the band launched into the Bon Jovi fist-pumper, which, astonishingly, turns 40 next year. Way, who told the crowd it was one of only two karaoke songs he’s sung in his life, may be the

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