{"id":794183,"date":"2019-03-26T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=813336"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:29:33","slug":"hear-bad-religions-conspiracy-bashing-new-song-paranoid-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-bad-religions-conspiracy-bashing-new-song-paranoid-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Bad Religion\u2019s Conspiracy-Bashing New Song \u2018Paranoid Style\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BadReligion_BandPhoto.jpg.928x0_q90.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bad-religion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bad-religion\" data-tag=\"bad-religion\">Bad Religion<\/a> envision conspiracy theories as a retro dance craze in their rattling new song, \u201cParanoid Style.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a paranoid style in American politics\/Casey Jones, you better watch your apocalypse,\u201d frontman Greg Graffin snarls over a pummeling drum pattern and power chords \u2014 a spin on a famous Grateful Dead lyric. \u201cAll kinds of wild interpretation\/Are open to the paranoid imagination.\u201d Later, he references political division and \u201cCommunist plots against the population.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band paired \u201cParanoid Style\u201d with a wild video that pairs vintage propaganda footage with shots of early rock dancing. Director\/editor Dan Fusselman weaves in glimpses of rocket launches, flying saucers, the first moon landing and Elvis Presley meeting Richard Nixon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen fringe groups blame shadowy forces for their problems it is, at worst, delusional,\u201d guitarist Brett Gurewitz said in a statement of the song, which was inspired by historian Richard Hofstadter\u2019s 1964 essay \u201cThe Paranoid Style in American Politics.\u201d \u201cBut when those holding the levers of power do the same thing, it\u2019s not delusion, it\u2019s a method of delegitimizing the opposition. It\u2019s a tool of authoritarianism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cParanoid Style\u201d appears on Bad Religion\u2019s upcoming 17th LP, <em>Age of Unreason<\/em>, along with lead single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bad-religion-address-perilous-times-on-new-album-age-of-unreason-800375\/\">\u201cPerilous Times.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bad-religion-new-song-paranoid-style-813336\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Religion envision conspiracy theories as a retro dance craze in their rattling new song, \u201cParanoid Style.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a paranoid style in American politics\/Casey Jones, you better watch your apocalypse,\u201d frontman Greg Graffin snarls over a pummeling drum pattern and power chords \u2014 a spin on a famous Grateful Dead lyric. \u201cAll kinds of wild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 01:44:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}