Lzzy Hale Discusses A Threesome Song She Never Wanted To Record With Halestorm
One of my favorite things about doing interviews, is when something you least expected happens. Before I talk to an artist, I make notes with questions that sort of guide me along and give me ideas of topics to bring up.
While talking with Lzzy Hale from Halestorm earlier this week, I just asked her the simple question “What’s going on in the Halestorm world?” She went on to speak about how they’re going to lockdown some time in September to concentrate on writing for the next album. She said she’s got some ideas already. “What we are in right now is the chaos of it all, whereas [we’re] not quite sure where the music is gonna take us or what we’re gonna be excited about, but I’m excited about doing something new and really just kind of accentuating certain moments.”
It’s when I asked her about bringing a song idea to the guys that she’s really fired up about, that I got an unexpected response. She said she has some of those, but there’s also ones she thinks are dumb, that they like.
“I write a lot of dumb s#!t that I don’t think is good. There will ultimately be a fight, like “Well, just show us” ya know? And there’ll always be one of those dumb songs where the guys are like “No, we have to do this song.”” She told me the song “Do Not Disturb” on the Viscous album, should’ve never been on the record. “I had written that for myself in a kind of club, dance way….it’s very much something funny for me. “It’s like, I don’t know, I had a threesome…nobody’s going to want to hear about that” Also, it’s weird and not relatable to everybody.” She went onto say that she just kept it in “the bank”. She said she mistakenly showed it to bassist Josh Smith. The next day, he had the bassline that she had done on a Moog synthesizer ready to go. She said it was cool, as Josh pushed back that they should record it.
“Nobody’s going to want to hear that.” she told him. He said, he did. She reluctantly agreed to record it, and the rest is history.
She added that she was brutally honest about the song to media after it came out. Some in the media were a little reluctant to discuss the track, according to her.
The song did very well as far as our list of the top 20 Halestorm songs below.
You can watch the entire interview below…
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