This is what Nikki Sixx has to say in response to criticism of Motley Crue’s newest music “Canine of Conflict,” which got here out in late April.
The monitor is the primary that Crue have launched since their cut up with Mick Mars, and thus options John 5 on guitar. It is considered one of a handful of songs they have been engaged on since early 2023, and as normal, there was a combined bag of reactions from followers on-line.
Sixx was featured on the Swedish radio station Rockklassiker again in June, and through that look he was requested a bit in regards to the response to the music and the build-up main as much as it.
“We preferred the truth that there was type of a knee-jerk response as a result of at the least folks have been listening. It is a very unusual time now, whether or not it is a information cycle or socials — everyone has become a critic. And I at all times say, ‘They’ve by no means erected a statue of a critic.’ It is by no means occurred proper? It is at all times the artists,” Sixx stated of the reactions to the monitor.
“However now, everyone’s a critic, so inside a brief period of time we get, ‘We like it,’ ‘We hate it,’ ‘You are over,’ ‘You reinvented your self,’ ‘It feels like Shout on the Satan,’ ‘It sucks.’ And we simply type of sit there and go, ‘That is cool guys, however we did not actually ask for any enter from you.'”
In early April, the rocker teased the music on social media and stated that individuals who “heard it say it’s a strong cross between nation and hip hop.” Just a few days later, he revealed that it was a joke and mocked followers and the media for taking it severely.
Sixx defined in the course of the interview that that was supposed to be a sarcastic social media put up, nevertheless it drew a lot consideration since artists are usually requested what their new music feels like previous to its launch.
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“I am like, ‘God, that is actually type of fucked up that that is the place we’re at right now,'” he recommended, including that nobody tried to contact their label or administration firm to see if his description of the music was critical or not.
“The irony is, is not that how folks get press now? Folks simply love negativity, and I discover it attention-grabbing. I do not wish to play into it, to be sincere with you, however that was a enjoyable one.”
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