I Am Getting Married!!!

That’s it! I am marrying 30 Seconds To Mars.

Yes, I know that you’re busy wondering whether you should inform me that Jared Leto isn’t actually the entire band but that isn’t the (only) reason why I want to marry the band. While Jared Leto may possibly be the sexiest man alive followed closely by his brother Shannon (the drummer) and while he may be an actor as well as the lead singer of an amazing band this is not in fact why 30 Seconds to Mars is the love of my life.

It all started back in high school. I was dating a drummer and trying desperately to impress him so I went to the local Musica and spent hours listening to music in the shop without actually buying anything, after all I was on a budget. Most of it was completely cheesy rubbish that can be found on albums such as Now 34 or Hot Summer Mix that I absolutely loved but I knew then already that there was no way in hell that he would approve of Westlife and Britney Spears.

I therefore moved onto the next album. It had a scary looking picture on the front and the band responsible for this hours’ worth of screaming and too much distortion had managed to put the words satan, blood, death and something about a veil all into one name. I was terrified but my need to impress this boy meant that I put my ears through this torture for as long as I possibly could before eventually, with bleeding ears, I gave up.

It was at this point that, in the corner of my eyes I saw the cover of a compilation album call Rock Till You Drop. I decided to give it a try and to my relief found that most of the songs had enough autotune and cheesy lines to keep me happy while still containing a lead guitar and a drum with the occasional scream too impress my boyfriend.

I eventually managed to convince my mother to buy me the album and spent the rest of the weekend listening to the album as many times as possible so as to learn all the words before I got back to boarding school and showed him. It was on this album however that I discovered 30 Seconds to Mars.

The album consisted of two CDs as well as a DVD which contained the better music videos and it was on this DVD that I found the music video for From Yesterday by 30 Seconds to Mars. I took one look at Jared Leto with his longish black hair and sexy eyes highlighted by eyeliner and knew that life would never be the same again but it was only after I had watched the entire music video that I realised that this band would change my life.

I collected more of their music along the way and even after ditching the boyfriend I still loved everything about them. It has got me through good times, bad times, random bouts of depression and happy holidays spent in the sun. The music videos are always exquisite and interesting and there is a certain ‘darkness’ to their beautifully written music that can make anyone feel welcome and un-judged. The lyrics, the music, the videos, the character; what’s not to love?

There is really no aspect of this band which isn’t absolutely superb. It was therefore no shock to me to hear that their fan base, ‘The Echelon’ consisted of a group of people that differ from one another so vastly and yet somehow all get along because they share one simple love; the band. Never before have I seen such a diverse, loving and caring fan base where even the strangest and most ‘out there’ people fit in. The Echelon seems to accept anyone and everyone so long as you share their love of music and 30 Seconds to Mars. And it is impossible to not LOVE 30 Seconds to Mars.

It is therefore with all of this in mind that I get down on to one knee and beg you, 30 Seconds to Mars, please will you marry me?