{"id":942177,"date":"2026-05-06T19:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942177\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:24:23","slug":"motionless-in-white-i-am-motivated-by-the-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942177\/","title":{"rendered":"Motionless In White: \u201cI am motivated by the personal\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a flurry of bucket-list moments, the Scranton goth-metallers are crossing off another one with their new single Playing God, collaborating with a personal hero in the form of Corey Taylor<\/a>. Any seasoned Motionless fan will know that they would not be the band they are today if it wasn\u2019t for Slipknot<\/a>‘s violent, confrontational influence, and Chris thought there was no greater opportunity to try and make his dream a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reached out and tried to be very upfront and honest about it,\u201d recalls Chris. \u201cHe ended up being very cool and very excited about it. I wish I had a camera to capture my reaction when I heard it for the first time. He went so hard, and it’s just so, so aggressive. I can’t believe that’s our voices next to each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an exemplary role model that any band member should look up to, as to how you want to conduct yourself in that type of setting, and then also as a human being. I\u2019m so grateful to get the chance to work with him and admire him for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Afraid Of The Dark was the natural lead single that represents what Chris deems the \u201cemotional backbone\u201d of Decades, Playing God is a far fierier counterpart, placing in its crosshairs the ever-worsening toxicity of the internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou open up any social media platform and you’re just berated with rage bait, hot takes, engagement farming, mostly people just straight-up lying about shit,\u201d Chris says, becoming more animated with frustration as he speaks. \u201cIt pushed me away from social media. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t want to be on there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of stuff that the internet says about all of those things I discussed \u2013 artists, entertainers of any type \u2013 is so, so disheartening to me, and I’m so angry about it, even though I know I shouldn’t be. I wanted to write a song that I felt was a raw expression of that emotion, to be like, \u2018Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck all of the bottom-feeding rats of social media that have no identity themselves, they have nothing to offer the world, and so their default is to utilise bands, artists, entertainers, whoever, to just bolster their own fucking social currency.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a flurry of bucket-list moments, the Scranton goth-metallers are crossing off another one with their new single…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-942177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116529271271962524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}