THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM‘s lead singer Brian Fallon recently spoke to Absolute Punk about the band’s anticipated new album “Handwritten” and why he refuses to censor their music.
He explains:
Well, lyrically, this one was no holds barred. Whatever Iโm thinking right now, whatever Iโm feeling, Iโm putting on that page. And, I wasnโt going to โeditโ it โฆ I mean, I edited it like crazy; hmmm, I wasnโt going to censor it. I wasnโt going to pull the, โwould so and so do thisโ or โwould this band say thisโ or โis this cool?โ โ cause you always think about your peers, and you donโt want to say something that leads to everyone going โwhy did you say that, man?โ – and then youโve got to live with that forever. But with this one it was a little bit more โฆ well, it was less thinking about that kind of thing. It was โwell, you know, if Iโm not cool then Iโm not cool.โ I just gotta write what Iโm feeling. Cause what if this record blows up? And I had written a bunch of songs that I didnโt really mean, but I thought sounded cool, and then Iโm stuck singing them for rest of my life? And I definitely donโt want to do that. And if Iโm lucky enough that this blows up, I want it to be because I did something that was me, and I didnโt want to sell anybody anything that I wasnโt going to like.
