Twisted Sister rocker Dee Snider has revealed that his forthcoming record will feature a song inspired by internet trolls.
On Tuesday, Dee Snider took to Twitter to reveal: “Today I recorded a song inspired by my taking on trolls on social media. @jameyjasta & @charliebellmore came up with the idea & chorus lyrics for ‘Open Season’ & I ran with it the rest of the way,” he wrote. “No loss for words here. Opening line: ‘Hey mutha fucker are you kidding me?!'”
Over the past few years Snider has made it evident that he has a taste for getting into internet tiffs with strangers online. During a segment on his I Wanna Talk podcast in June last year, the stalwart frontman shared a few choice words for his online enemies.
“A lot of magazines and web sites posts articles about me,” he shared. “The articles are totally legitimate, totally fair — they never take a cheap shot — yet I quickly learned that if you go to the comments, there are people just there to assault.
“The losers are just sitting there just attacking everything. And I just read a few of them the first time, [and I] laughed. Okay. I get it. And I don’t read ’em anymore. [I] go to sleep. I sleep nice. No aggravation. No freaking out. No stamping my feet. No tantrums. Because there’s some pussies — an old term, but I still use it — assholes out there.”
At least he has some kind of fruit to bear from his propensity for online drama. Most of us just have regrettable tweets and deep, unresolved feeling of shame. Though I’ll never understand why rockstars and celebrities concern themselves with internet drama, you have money, go like, hang out on a yacht or whatever else rich people do.
Last month, Dee Snider confirmed that he had hit the studio to work on the follow-up record to 2018’s For The Love Of Metal. Whilst details about the forthcoming record have remained tight-lipped, he divulged some information about the EP in an interview with Full Metal Jackie back in October last year.
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“I’m working with the same amazing team — the Bellmore brothers, Charlie and Nickey,” he shared. “Nickey plays drums, but also is the engineer and mixer — an amazing, talented guy. And Jamey Jasta is the producer and curator. He is the gatekeeper, the master.”
“As all ideas are brought in, they’re filtered through Jamey, his ears, and have to get a thumbs-up from him before it makes it to the record. But now we no longer have to do that ‘Is this gonna work?’ thing. And for me, it’s, ‘Do I trust these guys?’ I mean, I trusted them in the sense that they were friends, but when Jamey challenged me to do the metal record, I had my doubts.
:I don’t wanna say it’s doubts, but [I thought], ‘How is this gonna work?’ So there was an initial thing where we were all feeling each other out. Now, after two years of working together, touring with the Bellmore brothers, locking in a band with Nick ‘Taz’ Petrino on guitar and Russ Pizzuto on bass guitar, we come in and we don’t have to waste any time with that. There is trust, we do know our direction, we do know what works for Dee Snider and for this project, and we just go full steam ahead.”
