Disturbedin vokalisti kertoo paljon kohua aiheuttaneesta ”Light It Up” -kappaleesta
Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Disturbedin vokalisti David Drainman on antanut hiljattain Artisan Newsille haastattelun, jossa keskustelee yhtyeen uudesta paljon kohua herättäneestä marijuanan polttelusta kertovasta ”Light It Up” -kappaleesta. Voit lukea David Drainmanin mietteitä kappaleesta sekä marijuanan polttelusta tästä:
”Lighten up. Lighten the fuck up,” he tells Artisan News (see video below). ”It’s, like, you know what? Not everything needs to be gloom and doom and serious and smacking you constantly. You’ve gotta have a little bit of yin and yang. I mean, for God’s sake, BLACK SABBATH wrote ’Sweet Leaf’. All of a sudden, that’s untouchable material? All of a sudden you’re gonna have a political issue with it or some shit?”
”I’m not making a political statement. I’m talking about something that simply has been the catalyst for my creativity and for me being able to relax enough to let the doors open a little bit for the vast majority of my career. 95 percent of the song I’ve written — easily, easily — while under the influence, beyond any shadow of the doubt. And I’m not ashamed to say it or anything else. And I don’t view it as demonically as some people do, and I’m not viewing it as demonically as some people do, and I’m not viewing it as a political statement. I may be for legalization in general, which I am, but that’s not why we did the song. We did the song because Danny [Donegan, guitar] suggested it to me when I was searching for additional themes…”
Artikkeli jatkuu mainoksen jälkeen Mainos päättyy”After a hundred songs in, and you’re writing about subject matter that’s all serious, you kind of start running into the same themes from time to time, and it gets a little monotonous. I go to the other guys to kind of feed me some ideas. ’What do you think I should write about?’ And Danny suggested… ’You know what? Why the hell not? It’s what’s helped you open the doors of creativity to your mind for our entire career. Why not write a song about it? We did. Some people love it. Some people don’t. Some people are gonna probably come around within a couple of weeks’ time, once it kind of settles into them. I love it. I think it’s great. I think it’s definitely a little bit of a culture shock, not just from a thematic standpoint, but it starts out with my voice being in a very different spot than anybody’s used to hearing me. So there’s two different aspects: it’s the stylistic difference, and it’s the thematic difference that people are, like, ’Oh…’ I’m, like, all I have to tell you is if that threw you for a loop, wait ’till you hear a couple of the other tracks on the record, because this is diverse, man.”
”It’s funny: people bitch if you stay relatively similar, and they bitch if you evolve and if you change. And you can’t win. At the end of the day, you have to follow your gut.
”Like I’ve been saying since Day One: I can only hope that everybody is as happy with this body of work as we are. You can please some of the people some of the time; you can’t please all the people all the time, and that’s okay. Maybe this is part of growing pains, whatever the case may be. All I can ask for the DISTURBED fans to do is just relax. Give it a minute and let it sink in before you… If any of the more hardcore ones want to quickly dismiss it.”
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