Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe: “Why Did I Delete My Twitter? Because It’s Fulll Of Idiots”
- Lamb Of God: Our Randy has quit Twitter Lamb Of God frontman and King Ov Rant Randy Blythe has commented on his recent decision to delete his Twitter account – which we all know was a proper essential weekly read. “Why did I delete my Twitter? Because it’s full of idiots,” the singer explained at a press conference in Bangalore, India. “Social networking can be used for good things. And I used my Twitter account for several good things — I raised money for cancer research on it; I live-tweeted advice during a hurricane in New York City. So I used that, and at first it was fun to communicate with the fans. Like, I would answer questions from the fans. I think something 35,000 people were reading the dumb stuff I was putting up there. And some of it was just fun. It got too big. I couldn’t communicate anymore. And everything I said got misunderstood. And I’m a pretty brutally honest person on there, because I think people have two different personas online; I think they have the person that they are in their day-to-day life, and then they’ll be online and they’ll be someone else — rude, entitled… They say things to you online that they would never say to your face. I’ll say exactly the same thing online that I’ll say to your face. People don’t like that. They don’t like being told, ‘You’re being an asshole.’ So I’ll still do that, you know what I mean?! And it bummed a lot of people out. And I just got tired of arguing with all these people. “Someone was asking about meeting the fans earlier… My whole deal with music sis this: I don’t see the difference between us and the fans so much. I still at times am confused as to how many people… I’m like, ‘I can’t believe all these people are here to see my dumb ass jumping around on stage.’ So I don’t like the separation, mentally, between the fans and the band a lot of the time. Because people expect you to be something that you’re not. And you see that, conversely, in a lot of musicians who get really big heads. They’re like, ‘Oh, I’m something special because I’m up here playing in a band.’ It’s like, ‘Dude, you aren’t a doctor, you aren’t a scientist, you aren’t curing cancer. You’re a in a fucking heavy metal band. That’s it. Get over yourself.’ “The thing with Twitter that I thought was neat was that I could communicate one-on-one with people and kind of remove some of that barrier. Like, I’m just a person, too. And then people got rude. And I got bored. So I erased it. Plus, I wasted far too much time on that.” Lamb Of God play Download this June. Shit’s gonna get epic. Related StoriesPhil Anselmo: “I Felt Like Superman”Metal Hammer Vodcast 196: Black Sabbath, New Issue, Three WalliesElectric Wizard, Church Of Misery, Blood Ceremony And More…What’s On Your FREE ‘Sons Of Sabbath’ CD With The New Issue!Kvelertak Announce Intimate London Borderline ShowIt’s Official: Iron Maiden Are Better Than Led Zeppelin And The Beatles – ‘Number Of The Beast’ Voted Best British Album Of The Past 60 Years! ... Read the original article here
