{"id":794693,"date":"2019-04-10T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/mark-hoppus-on-simple-creatures-my-main-intention-was-to-not-have-this-soun"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:23:00","slug":"mark-hoppus-on-simple-creatures-my-main-intention-was-to-not-have-this-sound-anything-like-blink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/mark-hoppus-on-simple-creatures-my-main-intention-was-to-not-have-this-sound-anything-like-blink\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Hoppus On Simple Creatures: \u201cMy Main Intention Was To Not Have This Sound Anything Like Blink\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“It\u2019s always been strange to me when somebody goes off and does a side project that ends up sounding exactly like their original band!”<\/em> – Mark Hoppus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Simple Creatures <\/strong>talk their debut EP ‘Strange Love’ inside the current issue of Rock Sound<\/a> – and they discuss their musical inspirations of their new project.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the musical and creative direction that they’ve taken Simple Creatures, Mark Hoppus has shared \u201cOne of my main intentions was to not have this sound anything like blink-182… It\u2019s always been strange to me when somebody goes off and does a side project that ends up sounding exactly like their original band! We really embraced the electronic side of music production, pursuing these different ideas of what a guitar, a keyboard, or a human voice could sound like. We didn\u2019t even really talk to a lot of our friends about what we were doing. We were just getting in the studio and having fun, seeing what this could become.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI think Mark and I have a shared fascination with dark pop music, and obviously that starts with The Cure,\u201d<\/em> added Alex. \u201cBecause of that, the sense of taking these catchy, slick pop songs, but threading them with dark themes, sometimes sad or challenging lyrics, really appealed to us. If we had an idea that felt like it went too close to something we\u2019d done before, we\u2019d go, \u2018Nope, that feels too safe, let\u2019s go the other way.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always loved dark, disturbing lyrics over happy and uplifting melodies and music,\u201d<\/em> Mark noted. \u201cWith the song \u2018Strange Love\u2019 itself, I was asking Alex about how some of his bandmates are always out at bars, partying, and how they can live that kind of lifestyle – and the idea just spun out from there. Eventually, we ended up with a song that\u2019s kind of about orgies, in a strange way! And \u2018Drug\u2019 became about how the things that you enjoy end up destroying you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was cathartic to get into the studio and work through whatever was going on in my brain. Everyone was laughing and having a great time, cracking jokes and trying to write great songs. So while the lyrics come from a troubled place, the music itself comes from a place of joy. It\u2019s like a troubled love song, dark,
but hopeful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This is just a taster – check out our full interview with Simple Creatures’ Alex Gaskath and Mark Hoppus inside The Maine’s issue of Rock Sound! It’s available now from SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV
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“It\u2019s always been strange to me when somebody goes off and does a side project that ends up sounding exactly like their original band!” – Mark Hoppus. Simple Creatures talk their debut EP ‘Strange Love’ inside the current issue of Rock Sound – and they discuss their musical inspirations of their new project. Speaking on the musical and […]<\/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-794693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 02:36:56","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\/794693","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=794693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}