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“I liked the songs that came that way better. Everything was coming easier the more I just lived my life. It’s more inspirational. It’s coming more organically. The musical parts were just as good, but I discovered that the words, the lyrics were better. I found that I had more to say, because I was out there living life.”
And the tone of the next record is going to be something that long-time fans are going to be interested in seeing.
Sum 41, which also features Tom Thacker, Jason McCaslin and Steve Jocz, has never been easy to pin down, genre-wise, flitting from being seen as punk, pop, pop/punk, melodic hardcore, alternative metal and just plain alternative.
Whibley has never claimed to be any of these things, and doesn’t seem to care how his band or his music is categorized.
RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING, WHEN WE WERE 15 YEARS OLD; IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT PLAYING LIVE.“I don’t consider myself a punk, and I never really cared if we were called punk or not. I just don’t care what anyone thinks, so I guess that mindset makes me ‘punk.’ To me, punk rock is about doing whatever the f*** you want, and that’s all I have ever done,” he said, as he discussed his approach to the new album.
“I haven’t come up with a direction yet. It’s in the back of my mind. I do have a couple of things, a couple of guitar riffs that I have been working on, but not full songs. I do think it will be an evolution from the last record. I’d like to keep it heavier and darker like that one, but I would also like to go bigger and different and add some new instruments. I don’t know exactly what, but I do want to change some things up.”
Interestingly, early in the band’s career, Sum 41 wasn’t all that interested in the recording process, preferring to play live – as often, and as loud as they could. That energy and passion for performance has made the band a consistently popular touring act around the globe.
“It’s funny, right from the beginning, when we were 15 years old; it was always about playing live. We always hated the studio, we didn’t like writing, we didn’t like anything but we knew we had to do it to get to the stage,” Whibley, adding that the band has become more comfortable in the studio, and he has become something of a wizard in the studio, producing, or co-producing most of the band’s music.
And another interesting fact is that, for a band with provocative lyrics for songs like Fat Lip, In Too Deep, We’re All to Blame, Pieces and Screaming Bloody Murder, Whibley struggles writing the words for his musical concoctions.
“I have always hated writing words. Although it comes a lot easier now that I am older and have done it more, but in the early days writing lyrics was a lot harder, and it’s always the last part of the songwriting process for me.”
Sum 42 hits the road with Billy Talent starting March 14 in Hastings Park, British Columbia, travelling through the west and into Ontario for dates in London, Toronto, Kitchener, Sudbury, Kingston and Ottawa before ending the jaunt in Halifax on April 16.
2013年03月23日 09点03分
