RONNIE RADKE Explains Why FALLING IN REVERSE Hasn’t Released New Full-Length Album In Six Years
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On July 26, FALLING IN REVERSE frontman Ronnie Radke spoke to 100.3 The X Rocks‘s Adam McGuire-Britson about his band’s decision to focus on releasing singles in recent years following the disappointing performance of FALLING IN REVERSE‘s most recent full-length album, 2017’s “Coming Home”. Radke said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, my album ‘Coming Home’ didn’t do well; it tanked. It did bad. It didn’t do well. The numbers don’t lie, like they say — in good ways and bad ways. So, I noticed a lot of bands that were my age that were putting out [new music], trying their hardest and they were trying to figure it out, and I just remember being, like, ‘I can’t put another album out.’ I’m, like, ‘What can I do? Because I don’t wanna go down. I don’t wanna disappear into the abyss of aging emo….’ There’s a lot of bands that have done that. So I looked to rap, like Drake, and I was, like, ‘What are they doing?’ And they’re putting out singles. They just drop a single. Pop artists drop singles. I’m, like, ‘Okay, so what if I put all my creativity into one song instead of putting all my creativity into 10 songs and being rushed to get it out? Your creativity starts spreading out over 10 songs. If you put it all into one song, it’s really good. And then you put all your creativity into this music video. And it worked. Slowly. ‘Cause it was ‘Losing My Mind’, then it was ‘Losing My Life’, then ‘Drugs’. Corey Taylor [SLIPKNOT], who’s the nicest guy ever, jumped on it. And then ‘Popular Monster’, it [shot right up]. I was like, ‘Oh, I need to keep doing this.’ I was, like, ‘This is somehow working.”