COBRA STARSHIP VS MIDTOWN, SAPORTA SIDES

(VIDEO) Gabe Saporta, the brains behind Midtown and Cobra Starship, says bands are reflective of the times.

Cobra Starship is set to release their new album, While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets on October 10. It’s mastermind Gabe Saporta’s first album since Midtown’s 2004 release Forget What You Know.

Midtown’s last two album were increasingly introspective and somewhat depressing, and Saporta says that because of the band’s direction he became introspective and elitist. The bottom line is that Saporta says he wasn’t having a good time with the music.

“Yeah, there were two things happening. One is that I was dealing with a lot of negativity that I had to go through with that record every night. So I was kind of reliving that, which kind of made it difficult. And another thing was that since the record was so personal for me I was very uncomfortable about sharing it. I was uncomfortable doing certain interviews and I was very protective over it. I didn’t want to be in certain magazines, and I didn’t want to tour with certain bands, and I felt like I was becoming really elitist, and it was making music not fun anymore.”

Saporta said that the events of September 11 and its aftmath increasingly turned his mood towards the negative, and Cobra Starship was his means of giving his fun side a chance to prosper.

“There were a lot of things. Five years ago, especially when 9/11 happened the whole cultural climate became very serious, and we went to war and everything and then slowly we started discovering that things weren’t what they seemed, and we were being lied to by the government. It seemed almost hopeless. And there’s two things you can do when things seem hopeless. It’s either you can really get down in the dumps about it, which was where I was going, or you can just be like, ‘F–k it all. If the world’s going to hell, I’m throwing a party,’ and that’s where the vibe of Cobra Starship is. We’re throwing the party, and you’re invited.”

Cobra Starship is currently on tour with Gym Class Heroes and Patent Pending as part of the Jerry’s Kids Short Bus Tour ’06. Dates currently wrap up October 12 in Las Vegas.