![]() ![]() It just depends on if we care enough about it or not.”Įven though the issues that trouble the world are grim, Otep finds her fans’ response to her activism to be encouraging. We are the generation that can change everything. “So it’s our choice whether we will be Generation Doom, meaning we will be doomed, or we will be the doom of those plotting our doom. “We are at a place now where we can either forever go backward and maybe we will never get back up again, or we can continue to move forward and truly fix this planet that we live on,” says Otep. This nihilism is part and parcel of Otep’s oeuvre, but the title also insinuates the possibility that the course can be righted. “I reopened the gates, and music just started pouring from me.” (A video for the track is forthcoming.)Īlbum title Generation Doom refers to the possible annihilation of mankind. ![]() “Once I’d written ‘In Cold Blood,’ there were no more obstacles,” she says. She wrote a poem that contained the line “Something’s wrong with me for thinking something’s right with you,” and she transformed it into the song “In Cold Blood” that turned out to be the catalyst for her return to writing music. The painful split led Otep to write, her longtime outlet for channeling her emotions. Through all of that, we had tried to find out what we were going to do next, and at that time was when I had breakup. “We were rekindling that spiritual intercourse between ourselves and the fans. After finishing its Victory contract, her band began touring for the love of it. She remained creatively employed by doing voiceover work in video games and such movies as in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and she wrote a book of short stories called Movies in My Head. I didn’t want to take money from a label and put out a record that would disappoint the fans, because the fans mean everything to me.” But they’ll still come to me and say, ‘Oh, that’s not an Otep song.’ Because it’s not heavy enough or something, and I get really frustrated by that.” She no longer felt inspired, and she “didn’t want to fake it. I write all different kind of songs: I’ve written piano ballads, rap songs, rock songs, heavy songs. “I’ve never been someone who considers genre that important to me. Making a living as a touring band was difficult, and she says labels tried to pigeonhole her music. I can be that terrible,’” she remembers thinking - she announced her retirement from recording after 2013’s Hydra due to burnout. Having struck out as a musician on a whim in 2000 after seeing a lame band perform at a festival - “‘If they can be that terrible. Generation Doom is a welcome return by Otep. ![]()
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