Matt Skiba discusses new Trio album, Trump & Fyre Festival
Alkaline Trio on how depression and Trump-era mayhem fueled their new LP 'Is This Thing Cursed?' https://t.co/u4wKKqWWKO pic.twitter.com/4lucOJdCZb
- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 9, 2018
- Talks about Alkaline Trio's five year gap between albums and how joining Blink-182 played a part in that as well as the meaning and motivation behind the first two lead singles off of their new album, "Is This Thing Cursed?", Blackbird and title track, Is This Thing Cursed?
- Wrote their first straight forward political song on an album, expressing disdain for Trump: "In this new record, we also have a song called “I Can’t Believe.” After the Access Hollywood tape came out, I’ve been in complete shock and awe that Trump just didn’t get roadblocked right there. People kept buying it and supporting him, and it’s un-fucking-believable to me. Being a feminist and a pagan and someone who considers Mother Nature, not Father Nature … That guy is the enemy of everything I stand for. He was a sexist, rapist, fucking racist piece of shit - is one, will always be one."
- Wrote a song about the Fyre Festival debacle that Blink-182 was slated to play: ""Goodbye Fire Island,” you do the math. I thought about what would happen if there was no aid provided to those people, if they all started killing and eating each other. It had kind of the Lord of Flies vibe to it - Lord of the Entitled Flies - it’s people burning their money to stay warm." - "You’re being paid to play where there are people getting paid like a quarter a day to dig ditches. I mean, life’s not fair, but that’s just segregated and classist, and I don’t want any part of that. So thankfully that didn’t happen."
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