Pearl Jam released their new album “Dark Matter” and they did not leave aside their political side.
After the release of the new album Pearl Jam, “Dark Matter”the leader of the band Eddie Vedder revealed the reason behind the political song “Wreckage” and its relationship with donald trump.
Speaking to the UK’s Sunday Times, Vedder said of the song: “There’s a guy in America who still says he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it were true. Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to stay out of prison and avoid bankruptcy. Everything is at stake and he is out there playing the victim (at least they are doing this to me, because if not, they would be doing it to you), but you have not falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement. So the song says: Let us not let ourselves be separated by a single person, especially by a person without any worthy cause.”
When asked if Trump’s time is passing, Vedder said: “I can’t wait. “Most thoughtful people are going through a bit of PTSD from this now.”
Eddie Vedder looks back at some highlights in Pearl Jam’s history
Of the band’s meteoric rise to fame, especially when their second album “Vs” set sales records in 1993, Vedder said: “We didn’t know how to behave. We didn’t know how to deal with what we were going through. It was certainly nothing we could celebrate. “It was actually kind of scary.”
The band also had a battle with the Ticketmaster company arguing that they were monopolizing concert ticket sales, causing a pause in live concerts for them. They resumed their tours when Neil Young He took them as a backing band for the 1995 album “Mirror Ball.”
“Seeing someone who was on the other side of everything, who kept going despite everything, made us realize that nothing we were going through really mattered,” Vedder told the Sunday Times. “Neil is mercurial, he moves fast and, more than anyone he’s ever met, he’s always in touch with his muse. “I wish we could have approached our success with more grace, but at the same time our reaction was authentic and seeing Neil in action helped us see the value of that.”
“Dark Matter” is now available on music platforms.
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