Dee Snider revealed that Twisted Sister would reunite in 2024, providing their assist to political causes.
“Subsequent 12 months, you are gonna see some Twisted Sister reunions, at totally different political rallies that want our assist,” the singer admitted to Yahoo. A part of the reasoning, Snider defined, was as a result of their track “We’re Not Gonna Take It” has turn into a preferred rallying cry for each causes they assist, and people they’re towards.
“The band has a priority that the track is being co-opted by the intense proper… and we wish to ensure that folks nonetheless understand it’s a track for everyone and it doesn’t characterize that egocentric micro group,” the vocalist defined. “It’s actually for the mass folks, the average folks, the those who simply wish to stay their lives, be themselves, and never have folks inform ’em they cannot be themselves. So, I believe you will see us at political rallies and stuff like that. We’ll be on the market subsequent 12 months.”
Twisted Sister retired in 2016 and has reportedly turned down “profitable gives” since then to return. The band reunited for the primary time in seven years throughout a January efficiency at their Heavy Steel Corridor of Fame induction.
Elsewhere, Snider was not too long ago unmasked because the Doll on an episode of the hit TV collection The Masked Singer. His elaborate costume included excessive heels, which he joked about having beforehand worn for Twisted Sister reveals. “It’s like using a motorcycle. I wore them within the ‘70s. All of it got here again to me as soon as I put them on,” the rocker famous.
Requested by Yahoo about his historical past of carrying girls’s garments – together with the present controversy surrounding drag bans – Snider was candid.
“My band wouldn’t be allowed to carry out in Texas,” the Twisted Sister singer declared. “We might fall below that heading, the brand new rule, in the event that they cross these guidelines — males carrying lipstick, nail polish and make-up. So, do I stand with the [LGBTQ+/drag] neighborhood? 100%. I heard the neighborhood has reached out about utilizing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as their battle cry, and I stated, ‘With my blessing, brothers and sisters! Go for it!’ I stand with them. Look…. I used to be not homosexual, I used to be heterosexual, and I nonetheless had lots of points with lots of people as a result of I wore the issues I wore within the ‘70s and even into the ‘80s. So, I have been on the receiving finish. I get what they undergo.”
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