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Jesse DeFlorio* My Chemical Romance is facing legal action from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders over outfits that dancers wore during the band’s recent Hollywood Bowl concert.
The group opened their residency at the Los Angeles venue on Wednesday, with the band modifying their performance of “Teenagers” to now include dancers in Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCC) outfits who then, according to the legal documents, “armed themselves with rifles in a staged firefight, only to be depicted being shot.”
dude this is so fucking cool. all of the dallas cowboy cheerleaders coming to save gerard . all with guns . GODDDD #mcrhollywood video from mis_adventures on ig pic.twitter.com/x2Vz3NuGTI
— avery 🗡️ ieroween (@gorebugs) October 22, 2026
Pro Silver Star Ltd., the owner of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders brand, quickly sprung to action over the performance, filing for a temporary restraining order and injunction against My Chemical Romance to prevent them from using the DCC costumes onstage; Pro Silver Star at first requested that the band “to stop the infringing use of the DCC Uniform,” but they refused.
“Audience members and online commentators understandably believed that the performers were the real Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and said so in social media posts that continue to circulate,” Pro Silver Star wrote in their legal action.
“Silver Star is not litigious, and it takes no issue with MCR’s music, its artistic ambitions, or any message Defendants seek to convey. Silver Star does not ask Defendants to change their setlist, narrative, politics, choreography, or even their decision to put gun-toting performers on stage. Silver Star asks only that those performers not wear the DCC Uniform while doing it. The universe of alternative costume designs is effectively unlimited.”
