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NEWS > ENTERTAINMENT > SUM 41 ADMITS LATEST ALBUM IS A MISTAKE
SUM 41 ADMITS LATEST ALBUM IS A MISTAKE
April 9 2011
Ajax, Canada – Success is no guarantee of success, it never has been and never will be. There are certainly periods where one success leads into another and another, but eventually all careers reach an apex and then fade away. Sometimes those lives crash
down in flames, other times they simply fade out quietly and retire gracefully. Whatever the motion of a successful career however, the end result is the same. Eventually they all fizzle out.
At the height of success it is sometimes hard to see the end that one knows is inevitably coming. Popularity tends to blind even the most cynical of observers resulting in unrealistic expectations and dreams of things that will never come to pass. That was undoubtedly exactly what the members of Sum 41 felt in the early part of the 21st century, scoring hit after hit in a seemingly unstoppable assault on pop music. However time, and pop music, being what they are things started to fade away. That early success led to good album sales but little popular acclaim in the subsequent years and eventually the band just fell off the charts. The group though did stay more or less together and continued to release albums, including a new record which even the band’s lead singer admits was pretty much a mistake from the get go.
"I never felt like I was doing an album, even though I actually was. I never sat down with the intention of writing a song. I never felt like I had to pick up the guitar, I just did…,” lead singer Deryck Whibley told Yahoo. “The only time I’d write a song was when I was struck by an idea in a conversation and I’d throw it down, but then I wouldn’t listen to it again for another year or two. Finding those songs again and recording them was the biggest shock to me. At the end I realized, ‘Oh, I’ve made a record.’”
‘Screaming Bloody Murder’ was released last month, the first album from the band since 2007.
“I don’t think that any serious music fan would have looked at those early hits the 
band had and thought that they were going to be a great band. Fun, sure. A good concert, absolutely, but they were never going to be amongst the greatest in the pantheon of music history. It just wasn’t possible with what they were doing,” said Scrape TV Music analyst Dylan Chambers. “They didn’t need to be that of course, no one does. They had no great responsibility to the history of popular music, they were just there to be a band and to make some cash and that’s exactly what they did. Whether they are still doing that or not is something that can be debated, but whatever. I guess they aren’t really hurting anyone or anything. They aren’t Gaddafi or anything.”
It’s not clear if the new album has sold any copies. Family and friends of the band members reportedly received free copies.
“I mean it’s great for them that they can still afford time in the recording studio, that alone is evidence that they haven’t completely bottomed out, though you can get that space pretty cheaply nowadays. Gear is pretty inexpensive,” continued Chambers. “I’m happy for them I guess, or at least not unhappy for them if that makes sense. I mean if they want to continue making albums and releasing who am I to say anything? More power to them and I hope they find some kind of satisfaction in what they’re doing.”
Whibley’s ex-wife Avril Lavigne released an album last year or the year before or something.
Samantha Dryden, Entertainment Correspondent
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