Slash Admits That Guns N' Roses Songs are "a little sexist"
Songs of Guns N 'Roses like "I Used to Love Her" and "Back Off Bitch" motivated that many times the band was accused of sexist.
In a new interview, Slash admits that he can now see why that happened, but he also defended the material, saying that they were not "malicious" and that the #MeToo movement did not even question the lyrics.
"I've never thought of that. It never crossed my mind, "he told Yahoo! Entertainment. "I mean, I think when all this #MeToo really broke up, I thought of a group of musicians, not anybody in particular, but those musicians [who might be involved]. But most, as far as everyone I know, was not like that. We did not have that particularly predatory relationship with girls. It was much the other way around in some cases. Anyway, some of the songs were a little sexist, but not to take them so seriously. I do not think they were malicious or anything. "
The guitarist also said he sees a correlation between the focus on women that can be found in today's lyrics and the decline of that rock 'n' roll attitude of bands like Guns N 'Roses and his contemporaries,
"That kind of spirit is still present," Slash said. "It's still inherent in metal bands. It is still inherent in young bands that have something they want to express and that may not be an easy time to deal with that. But that attitude is not really something invented, and therefore at this moment many bands or many artists are doing many different things ... and not much of that is really rock 'n' roll. There is nothing to rebel against ... I think I try to discover how to have the attitude in your music, and in your songs, etc. It's probably difficult for many young bands because now it's about politics again. So we'll see what that becomes. "
Slash will release in a couple of weeks "Living in Paradise", his third album with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators .
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