Madina Lake answer your questions Pt 3
In the song 'Criminals', we hear you referring to the chase for the American Dream. As a band you've always stressed the lack of importance you place on CD sales and so on. What does success mean to you as musicians, and do you feel that you have already achieved this?
Success to me is helping someone through music. If a song or a show we do has a positive influence on somebody else than I'll feel totally successful. Criminals is actually about the greed that capitalism breeds. Greed is an evil part of the human condition and capitalism, though dead-on in theory, can not be handled by the current state of the human condition. People want immediate gratification and tend to have a sense of entitlement that blows my mind. You combine that with a capitalistic society and it's a nuclear bomb waiting to go off.
Regarding the Auspice and Adalia theme, on each album do the instrumentals Pecadillos, Lila, The Divine Game and The Auspice tell us about Adalia's mystery?
We use those in a few different ways. Some are just transitions, an attempt to cleanse the pallette if you will! Others have things recorded into them. wW're going to start tying it all together with Scorched Earth - so it will start to make sense soon.
What's the worst or most embarrassing outfit you have worn to a party?
We dressed as the Village People for Halloween once at a show in Texas. We came out to a tape of YMCA - and it just became awkward! I was dressed as the biker... no shirt, fake moustache and jean shorts.
What do you prefer - toast or bananas?
Toast with bananas on it, topped off with some sugar - woot woot!
