Alien Ant Farm‘s 2001 album ANThology spawned two main songs for the band – their unique observe “Films” and their greatest hit (by practically 400 million streams on Spotify), a canopy of Michael Jackson‘s “Clean Prison”. Although if Alien Ant Farm had their means, issues would’ve been slightly totally different.
In accordance with Alien Ant Farm vocalist Dryden Mitchell in an interview with Nu Pod with Joshua Toomey & Ro Kohli, the band wished the “Clean Prison” cowl to return out later… however DreamWorks Information launched it as a single anyway.
“Our intentions weren’t to have ‘Clean Prison’ even come out… not less than not as quickly because it did,” stated Alien Ant Farm vocalist Dryden Mitchell, as transcribed by The PRP. “Once more, we recorded it, so we knew what we had been doing. We put it on the file. However, we might seen bands that all of us love, climb the ladder. It simply felt like every file received stronger, higher, after which grew to become a greater band. I felt like that was one thing we envisioned.
“So yeah, when Dreamworks kinda… ‘Films’ was doing actually good and [then Dreamworks] dropped ‘Clean Prison’, we had been all slightly bit shocked and brought aback by it. Once more, we recorded it, so ya know… I feel we had been genuinely slightly bit upset when it first occurred.”
Mitchell stated finally he got here round to loving the music, although on the time he and his Alien Ant Farm bandmates had been afraid the duvet would overshadow every thing else they did.
“It is bizarre to see one thing in real-time go like lighting a firework, after which be slightly bit offended about it, ya know what I imply? In order that was a visit. Now, the older I’m, I feel it was a great factor in hindsight. Once more, I had these emotions of, ‘that is gonna eclipse rather a lot…’ ‘That is virtually gonna eclipse the band.’
“Me within the blue jacket with the little factor [shaved hair part] and the monkey, was… simply on TV on a regular basis that I simply felt prefer it was that complete music and stuff was extra standard than Alien Ant Farm. And it actually was for a minute, and perhaps it all the time shall be. However finally, it is bitchin’.
“I’ve gone by my years of like ‘I do not wish to play that music’ however now I am identical to ‘why?’ Simply do it dude, it is cool.”
However yeah, Mitchell is cool with it now. And the way may he not be? Alien Ant Farm‘s cowl of “Clean Prison” remains to be performed and talked about right this moment, particularly on the planet of the nü-revival.
“It makes me completely happy now. It is come full circle. I’ve had seasons of it. I bear in mind we did a tour — this was means again — we did a tour the place we did not like play the music, and that is kinda lame. I do not know what we’re making an attempt to do. Once more all of it kinda stemmed from, ‘effectively they put it out unbeknownst to us, we’re simply gonna not play it.’
“It is bizarre to have these… I assume it is human to have that, making an attempt to retract or one thing. However I am undoubtedly not ashamed of it or something. I simply felt like when it got here out so quickly, it simply felt like what we had been making an attempt to do was this, however this was what occurred.”
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