raised to be polite, not to suffer bullshit Life is too short to make just one decision
“kids who latched on latched on hard, and the kids who didn’t get it, didn’t get it. the underground is way more real than the mainstream, though. whether kids oppose us or support us, one thing i know is that they are real. if they hate [a band], they hate with 100% of their heart, and they love with 100% of their hearts. in the mainstream, it’s not that way at all. it’s “oh, i like fall out boy this month because they are on the cover of “teen people,” and now i like my chemical romance.” they’re much more fickle. you have mainstream music listeners that listen because they don’t know why they are listening to something other than the fact that someone with an ear piercing at hot topic told them they should. we don’t want those people as fans. we didn’t want to have a radio single, and we’re glad that we bombed at radio. we told our label we didn’t want to go radio. we want to sell our records to kids who care, because those kids who hear us on the radio will be gone for the next record, anyway, so why brainwash them for now?.... bands that get hyped and catch the weird wave of mainstream pop success, and then people stop liking them and they look like the flop and it’s sad when they are great bands that write great music. it’s the total marketing and packaging! we’re not going to dress up or have make up. we want pure appreciation of music.”
(source: “hails and horns” magazine)
wobbly syntax and a few minor points aside, this is almost exactly what i’ve been waiting to hear from a band. lessthanthree.
