STAIND HITS ABOUT REAL CONNECTION AND TALENT

Staind and its record company Atlantic Records are celebrating the band’s career with the release Staind: The Singles 1996 to 2006, which hits stores on Tuesday, November 14. The band has sold an impressive 15 million albums worldwide in their history, and they did it with no false pretense.

Some have praised their sometimes melancholy lyrical content and some have bashed them for sharing their emotions. Singer/songwriter Aaron Lewis told us in an interview a while back that he’s always honest with the band’s songwriting.

“All I’ve ever been able to do in the lyrics that I write is be honest. That’s when the most brutal honesty that I have comes out. My lyrics usually reflect how I feel about life. That’s all I’ve ever been able to do. I’ve never really been able to make things up and write songs like that. It’s always real.”

Atlantic is still looking for the next big rock band to break loose like Staind did with their monster hit “Break The Cycle,” which was released in 2001 by the now defunct Elektra Records. With rock being in a proverbial slump, Lewis was asked what could fix said slump.

“It’s talent, you know? People that have the ability to write their own songs, and that have the ability to write another record after their first record. And on their first record there’s gotta be more than one song that might be a radio song. Hence, the one hit wonder that so many people have heard and seen, and what’s insane is the amount of money that was dumped into that one hit wonder that never really amounted to anything. You can’t run a business that way.”

For the remainder of the year Lewis will spend his time divided between solo tour dates and shows with Staind. To find out where Lewis or Staind will be playing in a town near you, check out staind.com.