{"id":2442830,"date":"2019-04-11T08:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820897"},"modified":"2019-04-11T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:03:43","slug":"scott-stapp-condemns-child-abuse-in-purpose-for-pain-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/scott-stapp-condemns-child-abuse-in-purpose-for-pain-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Stapp Condemns Child Abuse in \u2018Purpose for Pain\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-11.39.31-PM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Creed frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/scott-stapp\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scott-stapp\" data-tag=\"scott-stapp\">Scott Stapp<\/a> reflects on tormented memories with his video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/scott-stapp-new-song-the-purpose-for-pain-812493\/\">\u201cPurpose for Pain,\u201d<\/a> the lead single from the vocalist\u2019s upcoming third solo LP, <em>The Space Between the Shadows<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The cathartic clip documents a young boy\u2019s escape from an abusive home. After his father shouts at him and hurls a beer can toward his head, the character flees to a rickety desert structure and pines for a more peaceful life. \u201cEven in my dreams, I can\u2019t escape from myself,\u201d Stapp roars on the track over a chugging post-grunge guitar riff. Later, he admits, \u201cI fought the devil, and he won.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement, Stapp noted that the video concept \u201ccombines the intense performance of our live shows with a narrative that portrays dealing with hopelessness, the struggle to endure, and the magnitude (and gratitude) of victory,\u201d adding, \u201cDespite the pain and trauma of his situation, the boy frees himself and begins to run, never giving up. In the end, the storyline is punctuated by the lyrics, \u2018there\u2019s purpose for this pain.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve learned you can make it through the most difficult struggles and tragedies in life by trying to see a higher meaning within your situation,\u201d he continued. \u201cFinding it can give you just enough hope to hang on and live to fight another day. Learning from my past, instead of succumbing, has made me more self aware \u2014 no more masking the pain, no more futile efforts to dull the pain. And it has made me even more empathetic towards others. Ultimately, my \u2018purpose\u2019 for the pain is to now use my experience to help someone else going through the same thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stapp will promote the album, his first solo project since 2013\u2019s <em>Proof of Life<\/em>, on a newly expanded summer tour. The North American trek kicks off June 20th in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and concludes August 31st in Lake Andes, South Dakota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/scott-stapp-purpose-for-pain-video-820897\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creed frontman Scott Stapp reflects on tormented memories with his video for \u201cPurpose for Pain,\u201d the lead single from the vocalist\u2019s upcoming third solo LP, The Space Between the Shadows. The cathartic clip documents a young boy\u2019s escape from an abusive home. After his father shouts at him and hurls a beer can toward his [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442830","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 03:45:56","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}