Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill has confessed in an interview that he ad libbed ill the lyrics to the band’s new album Come Around Sundown in the studio. He told a journalist from Uncut Magazine that he ad-libbed the lyrics in the studio and when he went to re-record them later, he was vetoed by the rest of the band. “I didn’t write lyrics,” Followill explained. “I went in and ad-libbed, I free-floated everything. The closer it got to the end, I felt like, ‘Man, you didn’t do your job.'” He continued: “I kept thinking, ‘When I go back and redo the lyrics, then I’ll get it. But when I went back in to try to do that, everyone was like, ‘What are you doing? You can’t change those lyrics. Those are the lyrics.'”
Considering this is a band which made a million bogan girls wish they were catching the clap of one of the band with lyrics talking about chlamydia, herpes and blow jobs whilst driving, it certainly doesn’t give the world any hope that the band will be winning next year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. In a sure sign that the quality control department has been made redundant in the band, Followill played the dongs to his girlfriend, model Lily Aldridge, who reckoned they were up to scratch. “I played her one song, and when I did, she looked at me and went, ‘What the fuck? Why haven’t you played me this? What are you scared of?'” he said. “Before you know it, we had listened to every song, and she just loved it. That gave me the confidence to say, ‘All right, well, maybe I’m in my head too much’.”
