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📢 “Absolutely, but we didn't set out to provoke. Being in a band allows you to push to the forefront, the traits of your personality that you wouldn't normally be able to expose. There is an enormous amount of freedom in terms of how we express ourselves lyrically, our music, our clothes. We started out being very honest about our lives, lifestyles. And for some reason that seemed to provoke and shock. But it was never the intention. And when it came to the amount of Press it generated, I say more Press the better! As a band, we don't have control over how we come across, and so to us, what people write about us is something we've come to not believe, because if you believe the good things, you have to believe the bad things, and neither is really true. It's what we in the band and people closest to us feel.“
𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗢𝗡-𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗔𝗥𝗘?
📢 “Like I mentioned, it was never a calculated move at all. We didn't employ someone to come in and style us to look like a cross between... Jonas Brothers or Britney Spears. It was never a calculated, contrived image that we had. It was just that we embraced the freedom that it brought. I mean, why just go to the men's section when you have a whole more exciting, daring, colourful clothes in the women's section? Over the years it has become more well-tailored and functional. I mean, you can't perform in a PVC catsuit! Of course, more tasteful than in the early days... there were a whole lot of fashion crimes that we did commit.“
𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗢𝗩𝗥𝗧𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖?
📢 “I suppose it did for a while. But with six albums under our belt, I think we kind of proved that the music is the reason we're here.“
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗪𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗦𝗞 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘?
📢 (Pause) “Well, that question! No, pretty much most questions have been asked.“
𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗦?
📢 “I have a bit of a goldfish memory when it comes to interviews (laugh). A lot of people probably imagine we like talking about ourselves, but we didn't set out to be a band that talks about ourselves. We express ourselves through our music instead.“
(Malaysian Today, "Six minutes with Stefan Olsdal", Apri#OlsdalQuote
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