DEE SNIDER: TWISTED SISTER Is 'Not The Focus Of My Life Anymore'

February 7, 2008

RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

On Britney Spears: "That squad of individuals, with the Paris Hiltons and the Britneys and the Lindsays and the Olsens and all that shit — they make me sick. You know, I do morning radio and it makes me angry to give the sensationalizing of these girls so much attention — it sends a very bad message out to young women and you see it reflected in the way that girls dress and the way they're behaving. They sensationalize what they do and they make them look heroic! Britney's now gotten to a point where it's just not funny anymore. It's not something to mock or laugh or call stupid or idiotic or for me to say she's a slut or a whore — or whatever anybody else would say. It's a sad thing to see a young person crashing or burning like that and media people need to feel partially responsible because Britney is a creation — not just by management and not just by her parents, but also by the world around her. You know, the way she was embraced and celebrated — she was allowed to become this woman/child. She's barely a woman — who has just turned into this enfant terrible. It's just sad."

On the future of TWISTED SISTER: "It's not the focus of my life anymore. Last year we did seven shows. We'll do festivals or something like that, and we'll put on the makeup and costumes and we'll go the whole nine yards and give the people what they want. One thing they don't want is new music. If we go, 'This one's from our new album!' you see hundreds of people standing up and walking out of the room. KISS put out their 'Psycho Circus' record in 1998, and it didn't sell! The fans don't want KISS 2000. They want 'Rock and Roll All Night'. So we have no illusions about that. We will continue until the spandex explodes. There's bad news and good news — bad news is on stage we look like a bunch of aging drag queens — the good news is we've always looked like aging drag queens!"

Read the entire interview at RollingStone.com.

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