Das neue Lied der Foo Fighters
Von Susi Ondrušová
Im Februar erscheint das neue 10. Album der Foo Fighters: „Medicine at Midnight” wird einige Überraschungen für Fans liefern (Stichwort: Disco). Fragt man allerdings Drummer Taylor Hawkins welcher Song am neuen Album für ihn der Beste ist, dann sagt er: „Waiting On A War“!
“Dave wrote it before the pandemic. You know growing up in the Cold War in the 80’s and then into the 90’s with all the Middle East stuff and early in the 2000’s North Korea and all of that stuff, there’s this sort of behind, in the back of your mind the fear that we could go to war at any time! I mean everyone, EVERYONE can fucking really relate to that. And it’s just in Dave’s lyric. It’s just so good. I think it’s one of the best songs he’s ever written. You know, it’s like at ‚Times Like These‘, ‚These Days‘, ‚Best of you‘ it’s got that heart on his sleeve sort of naive in a way look at it. Almost from a child’s perspective. And the first line is ’I’ve been waiting on a war since I was young. Since I was a little boy with a toy gun’ and I just thought when he was singing that, I was like, oh my God, that is so simple and so deep at the same time. And such a really profound and simple way of kind of looking at the world through a child’s eyes. So as much as I like the disco and the grooves and all that stuff, ‚Waiting on a war‘ is one of the Top 10 Best Songs! I’m just going to say it. I can say that because I didn’t write it, you know, I just played drums on the damn thing. But it really is one of those ‚Wow!‘ Did you really somehow tap into something, you know, like Bono, Bruce Springsteen, that Dylan, Lennon level?”
„Quiet-louder-louder-explode!“
Musikalisch lebt der Song von einer sich langsam aufbauenden Explosion und Dichte, etwas, das die Fans an den Foo Fighters lieben gelernt haben und unweigerlich natürlich mit ihrer Grunge-Vergangenheit verwurzelt ist: „We’ve always been a band that’s enjoyed dynamics and obviously with ‚grunge‘ it’s ‚quiet-loud-quiet-loud-quiet-loud‘. But Dave really likes ‚quiet-louder-louder-explode‘. And I love it and I’m really proud to be part of that song, just a small part of it, just the drums. We literally recorded and wrote that song in one day. You know when it’s just so right that every foot, every step you take is the right step. Well, that was that day in the studio and that was ‚Waiting On A War‘. As soon as I heard him sing that first lyric, I thought, oh, my God Dude! Wow! It was like one of those really proud days to be in the Foo Fighters!”
Foo Fighters spielen bei der Biden-Angelobung
Das FM4 Interview hat Taylor Hawkins nach dem Sieg von Biden/Harris geführt aber vor den Angriffen auf das Kapitol in Washington. Über Trump sagte er neben dem F-Wort auch „He has another month and it scares me!“ Taylor erzählte über wöchentliche „Taco Tuesday“-Dinner mit seinem Trump supportenden Schwiegervater, 10-minütige „screaming matches“ und, dass es zwar interessant ist, die andere Seite zu hören aber wie bitter es ist, dass die beiden politischen Lager so gespalten sind.
Damals wusste er noch nicht, dass die Foo Fighters im Rahmen der Angelobung auftreten werden. Womöglich erfüllt ihn (und vielleicht auch seinen Schwiegervater) das heute mit ähnlichem Stolz als damals als die Foo Fighters „Waiting On A War“ im Studio aufgenommen haben.
Publiziert am 20.01.2021
