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