Body Count is again they usually’re aggressive as ever! The band is now streaming their single “Fuck What You Heard” and it is precisely the American ass kickin’ you possibly can use on this high-quality Friday. “Fuck What You Heard” follows Body Count‘s earlier single “Psychopath” that includes Fit For An Autopsy‘s Joseph Badolato, which you’ll check out right here.
Ice-T additionally doles out some actually fascinating perception on songwriting and having the braveness to place out an album throughout a 2022 interview with Darren Paltrowitz of the Paltrocast.
“Making albums, it is sort of scary. It is sort of like, how do I clarify it… it is like okay, you make an apple pie. Everyone likes the apple pie and it sells lots. So now you bought to make one other pie, however it might probably’t be apple. It is acquired to be simply pretty much as good because the apple one, so that you make a cherry apple. It sells simply pretty much as good because the apple and everyone loves it. Now you gotta make one other one however it might probably’t be apple and it might probably’t be cherry apple, so that you make a blueberry apple.
“So now it is like, I am ran out of flavors. Like, you are scared to make the lime pie so you are like, ‘fuck it.’ If you happen to do the apple once more they are saying ‘oh, you are simply [doing the same thing again].’ Now you are at a spot the place… after which additionally if the final album was successful, do you wish to make one other document and it not be successful? Or do you wish to retire like Floyd Mayweather simply have a bunch of albums that each one hit and tour off of them indefinitely? Like, Kiss would not want a brand new document.”
Ice-T additionally talks just a little about his strategy to songwriting, mainly saying if a tune looks like it sucks then it is going within the trash (or the great things is getting repurposed). “Do not for a second suppose the stress is off. I am simply extra choosy like, I am simply extra surgical. For example that. It is extra surgical. I am fast. I will delete songs as we’re making them. I need not make 20 songs.” Or as Ice-T places it afterward by way of work ethic with any musician, “make music so good I haven’t got to sing on it. Make music that you possibly can come out and play instrumental and it might rock.”
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