Erin Broadley: HIM - An Interview with Ville Valo

It hurts so much that Sweden is no longer the center of cool music but your eastern neighbours - eh?

Cool interview!



[Edited on Oct 25, 2004 by MustiMan]

omg, i am soo happy to see this!!! Excellent! Planning to meet up with Ville again any time soon? Can I come?!

Finland has the crappiest bands ever I think, all the bands does this awful goth powermetal techno like: Nightwish, Children of bodom, Him, sonata artica and the rasmus etc. yuck

the only great finnish band ever i can think of is Hanoi Rocks..

Swedish music stands very still at the moment, the only good relative fresh bands I can think of is: The Change, Division of Laura Lee and Cult Of luna..

Id say Norway is the nordic no1 of rock music at the moment: Jr Ewing, Silver, Turbonergro, Gluicifer

btw: I think Gemini 5 and maryslim were the only bands you named that comes from Stockholm. I don't think I know any good bands from there...

i love HIM so much there music inspires me in so many ways id be lost with out it in my life everyday, i know there are many people out there that fell the same, all down to an amazing and orginal mind x

I love HIM and I am a total poser... I never even heard of these guys until about mid march. Whatever.

There was a thread where we admitted our boy crushes and I posted pics of him. This interview totally confirms what I already confessed.

AoO

.....all you need to write an "amazing" and "original" HIM song is a die (roll to see how many times you have to force the word "love" into the lyrics). Then, do a standard verse verse chorus verse chorus chorus break chorus out....be sure ot pepper it with pretty generic riffs and cliche lyrics (working in however many "loves" you rolled, as a noun or verb), and for the love of god DONT ever hold a note when singing it-be sure and twist and strain EVERY syllable possible.

They're like a WalMart brand Type O Negative....without the musical prowess. There's a couple elements of some of their songs I like, but most of it is the same sugar coated highschool generigoth shit over and over in the same pattern....

And the "love" thing-it's like in the 80s, when you had to squeeze the word "Rock" into as many titles and lyrics as you could.

But hey.....it proves you can make a rock band on the same formula as a boy band:tshirt sales first! Beaten to the punch again, I was....I coulda been a contender...

To each their own and everything, but this guy just seems like the poster boy for unintentional comedy. Pure caricature.

The first time I saw the album cover, I thought it was Tommy Lee after a make up factory explosion.

this is a really good interview. i am a huge fan of the band, but regardless of whether or not you like their music, you can't argue with his perspective. this was a very honest, interesting and enlightening interview...one of the best i've read here on SG.

this interview totally made my fucking day

Loved the interview.
Those who haven't seen HIM live should really check them out, mindblowing