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Yellowcard Teaser Interview With the release of Yellowcard Paper Walls July 17th ) we've decided to release a "teaser" portion of our recent interview with the band's lead singer Ryan Key. The full interview will be posted on the album's release date. It should prove to be an interesting read for everyone: fans and non-fans alike. So without further adieu ...Yellowcard Interview Teaser There has been a relatively quick turn around between the release of Lights and Sounds and Paper Walls , is there any particular reason for this? So based a little off of that – Lights and Sounds may not have been as critically accepted as some of the band’s previous work. In hindsight – what are your thoughts on that album? One for the Kids in this analogy because that album was so different, we wrote it at 18, and many of those songs came from like 3 other bands I had been in. So if you look at these three records (Ocean Ave., Lights and Sounds, and Paper Walls) you’ll find this: Ocean Avenue was a record that was very much about moving out and finding your place in the world and looking at everything that you wanted to be. Lights and Sounds was then a record that was about the realization that you had gotten lost. And where people grabbed onto Ocean Ave. and applied it to their lives – both in the music and the lyrics – Lights and Sounds was a record that came from a completely different perspective. It was completely introverted and came from – I wish I had a different word but I don’t – “darker” place. And I don’t think I ever expected everyone to grab on to those feelings – I think our hope was that maybe we had done something that could transcend the genre. And I really think you have to go through that – we can’t make the same record over and over again. We change as people and we feel our fans do too – they’ve grown with our band. Now you look at Paper Walls , which is very much a record of hope and finding yourself again. It’s after you’ve come through all of that – going to the height of it – and picking yourself back up again. And by “hitting rock bottom” I don’t mean in record sales or fame or any of that shit. I mean personally – emotionally.Lights and Sounds , for example, was a huge undertaking. And I remember saying back when the album was about to come out that there were going to be some people that were alienated by the record. But that was necessary for our career and for me as a person to get those feelings and emotions behind me. Because, to not really get specific, I was not taking very good care of my body at that part of my life, falling into a lot of the common pitfalls that come with being in a rock band. And I think if I wouldn’t have made that record, Lights and Sounds , I wouldn’t have made it through it and came out of those pits with a new feeling of hope. And now Paper Walls is the story, the feeling, of what it’s like to be out of those holes, looking back, no regrets, but smarter and having grown through them.
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03:38 PM on 06/17/07
Can't wait. Glad he doesn't hold back with his answers.
03:45 PM on 06/17/07
this is gonna be a damn good read.
04:19 PM on 06/17/07
This album will surprise and delight a lot of people.
04:25 PM on 06/17/07
I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of this interview and hearing the album.
04:35 PM on 06/17/07
I couldn't be more hyped and excited for Paper Walls. 7/17 couldn't come quickly enough.
05:01 PM on 06/17/07
From what is posted, it seems like its going to be a very insightful interview.
05:13 PM on 06/17/07
nice, can't wait for the rest of this and the album.
05:15 PM on 06/17/07
Interviews/Small Band Round Up
Wow, this should be good.
05:25 PM on 06/17/07
it doesn't look good to me.
I just can't wait.
05:28 PM on 06/17/07
now i realy cant wait till 07.17
05:46 PM on 06/17/07
ill be able to listen to the album 4 times in its entirety before finishing the interview if it stays like that haha cant wait should be a great read
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