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 I’m thinking right now, whatever I’m feeling, I’m putting on that page. And, I wasn’t going to “edit” it … I mean, I edited it like crazy; hmmm, I wasn’t going to censor it. I wasn’t going to pull the, “would so and so do this” or “would this band say this” or “is this cool?” — cause you always think about your peers, and you don’t want to say something that leads to everyone going “why did you say that, man?” – and then you’ve got to live with that forever. But with this one it was a little bit more … well, it was less thinking about that kind of thing. It was “well, you know, if I’m not cool then I’m not cool.” I just gotta write what I’m feeling. Cause what if this record blows up? And I had written a bunch of songs that I didn’t really mean, but I thought sounded cool, and then I’m stuck singing them for rest of my life? And I definitely don’t want to do that. And if I’m lucky enough that this blows up, I want it to be because I did something that was me, and I didn’t want to sell anybody anything that I wasn’t going to like.
