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ReflectioNs

roduced by Brendan o’-Brien, seether’s sixth studio album ’isolate And Med-
Picate’ saw the band achieve their fourth consecutive Billboard top 10
stateside-. the supporting video for the first single,’Words As Weapons’, lifted
from the aforementioned album- contains a lot of mirrors- capturing the band
at all angles. inspired by this,- Black Velvet decided to see if we could find out
whether lead singer shaun Morgan, bassist Dale stewart, drummer John
Humphrey and lead guitarist Bryan Wickmann are happy with who they are, how
they-ve changed in the past few years- and what they would like their future to
hold. Read on to find out-...
mm, well this is not for the faint of you’ve been around for a long time and you People appear to be more narcissistic
“Hheart huh?” Shaun comments with a just seem to never get it right as far as inter- nowadays and we are living in the age of the
smile, after Black Velvet asks whether they personal relationships go, at some point you selfie generation. For some it has reached the
have learnt to embrace their imperfections. have to sit back and go, ‘Well, what am I doing point of unhealthiness as their lives revolve
When looking in the mirror are they comfort- wrong? How am I going to improve on this? Am around how many comments and likes they re-
able with the person staring back, both exter- I setting my goals too high? Am I expecting too ceive on a photo. “It’s all driven by social media
nally and internally? Shaun looks thoughtful much from people?’ I think I’ve learnt to sort of and things nowadays, especially I think for
and answers, “Erm… No, I don’t think anyone’s step back and analyse a situation before I lash younger kids growing up,” Dale remarks. “I
really happy with what they see in the mirror. out and just passionately yell things. I don’t guess it’s that sort of pack mentality, trying to
Well I’m not.” think anyone’s ever going to be 100% happy fit in and trying to get affirmation from those
“You can try to improve yourself hopefully,” with themselves, you know, and if they tell you people. People crave that, they almost become
John interjects. that I think they must be lying because that addicted to that. It’s weird to see, I mean, we
“Yeah,” Shaun agrees, “especially emo- would then imply perfection and I don’t think grew up in way different times, it’s all kind of
tionally. When you get to the point where you could ever really attain that.” new to us.”

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