{"id":565550,"date":"2023-03-17T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/100-gecs-seriously\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:58:01","slug":"100-gecs-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/100-gecs-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"#100 gecs, seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a245a3865c2a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" 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class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      100 gecs, seriously\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      Dylan Brady and Laura Les speak passionately about making playful music on The FADER Interview.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100gec-chris-maggio-9999-Large-_1__1_wivqxw\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100gec-chris-maggio-9999-Large-_1__1_wivqxw\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 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<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\" alt=\"Logo snapchat\"><!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243947\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\">When Laura Les<\/span> of 100 gecs spoke to The Fader for a GEN F feature in the fall of 2019, she said that she and her bandmate Dylan Brady thought their debut album would be good but slept on. It was a sensible bet: Brady and Les, friends for years after growing up in the same St. Louis orbit, had been making fascinating music apart for years, under their own names and various pseudonyms. Their 2016 self-titled debut EP as a duo was an overwhelming combination of abrasive noise and sugar-high melodies that, even in hindsight, nobody could have expected to break through. But <i>1000 gecs<\/i>, released three years later, was something different.<\/p>\n<p>            Produced over the internet with Brady in Los Angeles and Les back in Missouri, it\u2019s truly anarchic \u2014 a combination of pop, noise, trance, punk, ska, and metal. Its creators seem to be permanently glitching too, with Les\u2019s voice pitched up into uncanny territory and no one sound hanging around for more than a couple of seconds before jolting into something else. And it wasn\u2019t slept on at all. An aesthetic that had been building for at least as long as PC Music had been around suddenly had a name, hyperpop, and a totally unsuspecting duo as its figurehead. Cue a million think pieces about how 100 gecs were truly the sound of our weird, memeified present. <\/p>\n<p>            Hyperpop exploded. Then the world locked down, and hyperpop exploded some more. Kids all over the planet with access to every song in human history and a bunch of shit to figure out were suddenly locked in their bedrooms with GarageBand for company. Brady and Les played some shows inside the video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> Minecraft and got to work on their second album, inevitably called <i>10,000 gecs<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>            They announced it in the fall of 2021 and released a single, \u201cmememe,\u201d to celebrate. Magazines wrote cover stories about their return, but there was never a release date. The single came and went. The band weren\u2019t h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y with what they\u2019d recorded, so they started over. 18 months after the band confirmed its existence, <i>10,000 gecs<\/i> is out today, and 100 gecs still sound unmistakably like themselves. Jumping from third-wave ska to brutal metal breakdowns to blink-182-style pop-punk to something resembling Limp Bizkit in the space of a few breaths, they\u2019re still irreverent and fun. There\u2019s a song called \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#f22f48\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9j_TuMSw7H4&amp;ab_channel=100gecs\">Frog On The Floor<\/a>\u201d about a frog who\u2019s on the floor, and occasionally does keg stands. At the same time, there\u2019s more melancholy behind Les\u2019s lyrics than most critics will acknowledge.<\/p>\n<p>            But this project isn\u2019t a retread. <i>1000 gecs<\/i> sounded like the place it was made (the internet), and its follow up sounds like L.A., where Les moved so she could work in person with Brady this time. Les\u2019s voice is still heavily Auto-Tuned, but it\u2019s not pitched up anymore. She doesn\u2019t sound like a human trapped in a computer here. Even when they\u2019re paying eerily faithful tribute to unloved sounds from the turn of the millennium, 100 Gecs sound present and still thrillingly of the future. Earlier this week, I caught up with Les and Brady to talk about recording in the room where System of a Down created their 2021 album <i>Toxicity<\/i>, making music that\u2019s fun without being treated as frivolous, and the influence they want to have on younger musicians coming through.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243990\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243948\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/100_gecs_2022_1_lljzcr\/100-gecs-seriously.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"100 gecs, seriously\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      MacKenzie Sutch<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243949\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>This Q&amp;A is taken from the latest episode of The FADER Interview podcast. To hear this week\u2019s show in full, and to access the podcast\u2019s archive, click <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#f22f48\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/thefaderinterview\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243950\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243991\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243951\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER:<\/b> I remember <i>10,000 gecs<\/i> being announced 18 months ago. I\u2019ve got emails about it from late summer \u201921. What happened?<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Laura Les:<\/b> We had to finish it, and then it took forever to get it from finished to out.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>But there was a bit of scrapping and starting again, right?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL<\/b>: We\u2019re always scrapping shit, like, \u201cNah, this could be better.\u201d I just changed something recently.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What did you change?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> Can\u2019t tell you. Actually, I guess everyone will know. It\u2019s pretty apparent. There\u2019s two different verses in the streaming version as opposed to the record version.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>So you\u2019re editing right down to the deadline?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Dylan Brady:<\/b> Down to the wire.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> The record and the CDs will have the old [version].<\/p>\n<p>            <b>And I guess the version I\u2019ve heard will be different to the streaming version as well.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> There\u2019s 100 different versions because we just kept wanting to change it.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> The FADER version, the Pitchfork version, the Rolling Stone version.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>The Kanye West approach to streaming, but completely accidental.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> I actually hate that approach. Once it\u2019s out, I\u2019m never going to touch it again.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>So you wouldn\u2019t touch \u201cmememe?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> Why would I touch \u201cmememe?\u201d \u201cmememe\u201d is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I\u2019m just saying, it\u2019s something you have out, but it\u2019s technically on the album. It\u2019s a fishy middle ground.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> I think my distinction is the album as a whole piece; I wouldn\u2019t touch it after it was on streaming. I don\u2019t know, though. Even that rule could be bent..<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You backed down from this so quickly, but I respect it.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I don\u2019t have much conviction in any of my beliefs. When they talk about \u201cstand for nothing, you\u2019ll fall for everything,\u201d they\u2019re talking about me. I stand for nothing. I\u2019ll fall for anything.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243992\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243952\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"100 gecs - mememe {OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO}\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Bw2dTY3SsQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('243952');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243953\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>I\u2019ve heard varying numbers about how many demos you made.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> They\u2019re all true.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> We\u2019ve gotten questions like, \u201cDid you really do 4,000 demos for this album?\u201d Yeah, we did.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I mean, Carly Rae Jepsen does like 300 for each album.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> Rookie numbers. 3,700 too few.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> The story is we had 10 songs, and we were like, \u201cThis is gonna be the album.\u201d And then we were like, \u201cLet\u2019s do something else instead. This isn\u2019t hitting as hard as it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <b>There was very little pressure on <i>1000 gecs<\/i>, and then suddenly there\u2019s a lot of eyes on you and a major label involved. Did that have some sort of bearing on that decision to scrap a lot of stuff and start from scratch?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> Yeah, probably.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> It\u2019s a totally different vibe when you\u2019re embracing the machinery of it all.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Did that amount of pressure make music-making less fun?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> 100 percent, but you can definitely affect it with how you think about things. I was caring too much about granular shit, getting too [deep] in that headspace.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> I thought it was dope, because I got huge speakers out of it.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> That\u2019s the nuance of it: It can change your whole life. But at the same time, there\u2019s this pressure. It was fucking with my head. There was no label person with a gun to my head. It was just in my own head. It was not super chill.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-243954,  #content_block-243954 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-243954 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f22f48 ;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243954\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cWhen they talk about \u2018stand for nothing, you\u2019ll fall for everything,\u201d they\u2019re talking about me. I stand for nothing. I\u2019ll fall for anything.\u2019\u201d \u2014Laura Les\n<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243993\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243955\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>One thing fans and critics celebrated about <i>1000 gecs<\/i> was that it embraced its extremes. Was there a pressure to be fucking weird this time around?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> I think it\u2019s a mix of things. We try not to be too influenced by what people are expecting. I feel like having expectations drive anything in the music-making process is not super chill. But I don\u2019t know. Dylan, can you speak on that?<\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> I just think we wanted to do different shit more so than feeling the pressure to do that. We wanted to make a different kind of record.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> We were listening to different shit too. I wasn\u2019t listening to all the same <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#f22f48\" href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/cultures\/nightcore\">nightcore<\/a> that I was when we were making the first one. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>Those genres that you\u2019re talking about \u2014 whether it\u2019s nu-metal or third-wave ska or pop-punk \u2014 are quite faithfully reproduced. A lot of energy and work and meticulousness was put into that. How satisfying is it to recreate those sounds that in 2023 feel a bit unloved?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> I mean, we love all the things that we put into it. We love nu-metal and we love ska. We put a lot of love into making each of the things. We\u2019re not half-assing any of it.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> That\u2019s our whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> We don\u2019t half-ass it.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> We listen to a ton of shit. We listen to a bunch of shit we like and a bunch of shit we don\u2019t like, and we pick apart what we don\u2019t like about it. We bought the guitars. Dylan has an eight-string and we ran it with a [Boss] HM2 into a fucking Dual Rec[tifier] 4X12 cab[inet]. If it sounds faithful, it\u2019s because it sounds good. It sounds like itself. We got our friend to come in and lay down some scratches on a bunch of shit. We got real drums playing on it \u2014 we got <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#f22f48\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joshfreese\/?hl=en\">Josh Freese<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> Same room as <i>Toxicity<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243956\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"100 gecs - Hollywood Baby {OFFICIAL VIDEO}\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UtfkrGRK8wA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('243956');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243994\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-243957 {\n   background: ;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-243957,  #content_block-243957 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-243957 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #f22f48;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243957\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cYou don\u2019t tell one joke, and then it\u2019s like, \u2018That\u2019s actually who I am now, and I totally don\u2019t take myself seriously and I don\u2019t pay my bills anymore.\u2019\u201d \u2014Laura Les\n<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243958\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>Do you remember The Darkness, the British rock band?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> They\u2019re the ones that are like, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#f22f48\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tKjZuykKY1I\">I believe in a thing called love<\/a>?\u201d Yeah, I recently heard that song again for the millionth time at a bar, and everybody I was with was screaming out the lyrics. Doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not funny, doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t go.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>That\u2019s the thing: They were very aware of that. I <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#f22f48\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/mb3bgy\/the-darkness-want-to-be-rockstars-again\">spoke to their lead singer<\/a> a while back, and he remembers being really pissed off. He would rip an incredible guitar solo that he was really proud of and had worked really hard on, and critics would go, \u201cAh, that\u2019s a funny joke.\u201d But things that are funny can have things that are worthy of respect within them as well. Those aren\u2019t exclusive.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> It\u2019s playfulness. I\u2019m sure The Darkness doesn\u2019t think that they\u2019re funny. They\u2019re not telling a bunch of fucking jokes on stage. They\u2019re not The Lonely Island. They\u2019re trying to make a good song and they embrace that there are funny elements of that, and they\u2019re not taking it too seriously. Look at Limp Bizkit\u2019s last album. Nobody\u2019s thinking, \u201cThey\u2019re just joking,\u201d but at the same time, the album is literally called <i>Still Sucks<\/i>, and [Fred Durst] got a song about how he looks like a dad now.<\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s a mixture. It\u2019s nuanced. It doesn\u2019t have to be any one thing. We can take ourselves seriously and not take ourselves seriously all the time. It\u2019s very interesting that there\u2019s so much confusion about that. I take myself seriously, but I don\u2019t take myself seriously on a moment-to-moment basis. You don\u2019t tell one joke, and then it\u2019s like, \u201cThat\u2019s actually who I am now, and I totally don\u2019t take myself seriously and I don\u2019t pay my bills anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <b>A community of musicians has grown around your music. You\u2019ve somewhat accidentally been installed as the figureheads or as shorthand for a music scene, for a genre and for a style of music that\u2019s barged its way into the mainstream. What do you want your influence to be? From speaking to people to younger musicians involved in the scene, one thing that they might take from your music is a sense of liberation. They can play anything they want; they can sound like anything they want.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b>  That\u2019s ideal.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>DB:<\/b> That\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>LL:<\/b> If people say that, I\u2019m super-duper happy. The feeling that you can make any kind of music you want \u2014 that\u2019s how I felt when I was in high school. I learned of The Mars Volta and watched a ton of online videos of them, and I was like, \u201cThat sounds super wacky.\u201d I didn\u2019t know too much music, but I was like, \u201cWow, that\u2019s crazy that they can just do that all the time, and they don\u2019t have to have jobs they hate.\u201d I thought the same thing about Machine Girl: \u201cWow, they just do that. That\u2019s all they do. They just do that and it\u2019s good. It\u2019s fine. They\u2019re doing fine.\u201d It\u2019s super cool to hear that people say that about us because it\u2019s true: Just make something you like, that you think is cool, and people will, somebody will\u2026 Do you know what I mean? People will think it\u2019s cool. 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