Waterparks have released a bizarre video for one of Fandom's biggest bangers, Easy To Hate.
A week on from the release of their brilliant 4K-rated album Fandom, Waterparks have dropped a brand-new video.
The promo for Easy To Hate is once again directed by frontman Awsten Knight, and features some typically out-there footage: drummer Otto Wood on the toilet, Awsten's freaky glowing-eye thing à la the Watch What Happens Next video, and a rather gruesome foot chopping for the poor main character. Yikes.
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Check it out in all its glory below.
In the run-up to Fandom's release, we caught up with Awsten to learn a whole bunch about the record, as well as what the singer and guitarist has been dealing with from outsiders who believe his colourful personality to be something of an exaggerated character of himself.
“I’ve dealt with that a lot,” he sighed. “The first time I ever experienced it was on a podcast, and I couldn’t quite articulate why it made me so angry. They were like, ‘Everything that you do: is it a kind of act?’ And I was like, ‘What the fuck?’ I tweet jokes, and I like colour, is that that weird? There are constantly people that are like, ‘But what’s the real thing?’ It’s like being accused of being disingenuous about who you are. Having your authenticity questioned gets tiring. You feel like you have to constantly say, ‘I’m not a fake piece of shit.’ I’m just here.”
He also discussed the expectations of Waterparks' fans – a huge topic across the full-length.
“Honestly, fan expectation gets to me more than any industry stuff,” said Awsten. “One big indicator is when I do something that is very ‘me’ and always has been, and they’re like, ‘He’s fucking changed so much – he’s such a piece of shit.’ It’s because they’re disappointed, because they’ve made expectations around me that I didn’t set.”
Read the full thing here.
Catch Waterparks live at the following UK dates next year – and pick up your tickets now from the Kerrang! Ticket Store:
January 2020
24 Dublin Academy
25 Belfast Waterfront Studio
26 Glasgow SWG3
27 Birmingham Institute
29 Manchester Academy 2
30 Manchester Academy 2
February 2020
1 London Electric Ballroom
2 London Electric Ballroom
4 Koln Luxor
5 Munich Feirerwerk
7 Amsterdam Melkweg
8 Hamburg Logo
9 Copenhagen Pumpehuset
11 Oslo Parkteateret
12 Stockholm Klubben
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