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Post by Heather on Mar 29, 2010 16:43:10 GMT -5
Deryck Whibley is In the 'Wavin' Flag' Video, But His Voice Isn't
Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley is all for a good cause, especially Young Artists For Haiti, the Canadian collective of 50 musicians, including Drake, Sam Roberts, Jacob Hoggard, Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber and Kardinal Offishall, who sang on K’Naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” to raise money for the victims of January’s devastating earthquake. Problem is, that's not him singing in the video.
“When I saw the video, they use somebody else’s voice but it’s me singing it,” Whibley laughs. “They show my face with somebody else’s voice which kind of pisses me off a little bit because it doesn’t sound anything like me and I don’t really like the way the guy sounds. So we’re trying to work that out and get that changed because it definitely should be my voice.”
Whibley who is finishing up the new Sum 41 album with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Dashboard Confessional), didn’t think twice about participating in the single, which now sells for $1.29 via www.youngartistsforhaiti.net.It was produced by renowned Canadian producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, KISS) and proceeds go to War Child Canada, World Vision Canada and Free The Children.
Recorded during the Olympics — when many of the participating artists were in Vancouver to perform — Whibley flew in especially for the project. He landed in the morning, went straight to Warehouse Studios, sang his lines, then did the group vocal. “That was pretty much it,” he says. “It was pretty easy.
“I just wanted to be represented correctly,” Whibley explains. “I’m just trying to get that changed right now.
“I’ve been getting so many phone calls about it. A lot of fans are talking about it on our website. It’s like, it’s f*cking not me. I don’t sound like that. People are like, ‘Why does Deryck sound like that?’ A lot of our fans are saying on the website, ‘Aw, the new album’s gonna suck. I hate the way Deryck sings now.’”
Rest assured then that Sum 41’s sixth studio album will not be R&B. He laughs.
The band — Whibley, bassist Cone McCaslin and drummer Steve “Stevo” Jocz — has been posting behind-the-scenes footage of its recording sessions with Norton on www.sum41.com.
Once the album wraps, the band — which just performed at South By Southwest in Austin, TX., — will tour Europe in the spring and early summer, followed by the full Warped Tour from June through August.
On top of that, Stevo has been directing music videos with Rockhard Films, most recently for Airbourne, Katy Perry, 3OH!3 and Bowling for Soup. Cone has been working with Todd Morse of H2O on the second album for their side project, The Operation M.D., and Whibley is finishing up his ex, Avril Lavigne’s next album.
www.dose.ca/Deryck+Whibley+Wavin+Flag+Video+Voice/2740308/story.html
Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley is all for a good cause, especially Young Artists For Haiti, the Canadian collective of 50 musicians, including Drake, Sam Roberts, Jacob Hoggard, Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber and Kardinal Offishall, who sang on K’Naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” to raise money for the victims of January’s devastating earthquake. Problem is, that's not him singing in the video.
“When I saw the video, they use somebody else’s voice but it’s me singing it,” Whibley laughs. “They show my face with somebody else’s voice which kind of pisses me off a little bit because it doesn’t sound anything like me and I don’t really like the way the guy sounds. So we’re trying to work that out and get that changed because it definitely should be my voice.”
Whibley who is finishing up the new Sum 41 album with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Dashboard Confessional), didn’t think twice about participating in the single, which now sells for $1.29 via www.youngartistsforhaiti.net.It was produced by renowned Canadian producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, KISS) and proceeds go to War Child Canada, World Vision Canada and Free The Children.
Recorded during the Olympics — when many of the participating artists were in Vancouver to perform — Whibley flew in especially for the project. He landed in the morning, went straight to Warehouse Studios, sang his lines, then did the group vocal. “That was pretty much it,” he says. “It was pretty easy.
“I just wanted to be represented correctly,” Whibley explains. “I’m just trying to get that changed right now.
“I’ve been getting so many phone calls about it. A lot of fans are talking about it on our website. It’s like, it’s f*cking not me. I don’t sound like that. People are like, ‘Why does Deryck sound like that?’ A lot of our fans are saying on the website, ‘Aw, the new album’s gonna suck. I hate the way Deryck sings now.’”
Rest assured then that Sum 41’s sixth studio album will not be R&B. He laughs.
The band — Whibley, bassist Cone McCaslin and drummer Steve “Stevo” Jocz — has been posting behind-the-scenes footage of its recording sessions with Norton on www.sum41.com.
Once the album wraps, the band — which just performed at South By Southwest in Austin, TX., — will tour Europe in the spring and early summer, followed by the full Warped Tour from June through August.
On top of that, Stevo has been directing music videos with Rockhard Films, most recently for Airbourne, Katy Perry, 3OH!3 and Bowling for Soup. Cone has been working with Todd Morse of H2O on the second album for their side project, The Operation M.D., and Whibley is finishing up his ex, Avril Lavigne’s next album.
www.dose.ca/Deryck+Whibley+Wavin+Flag+Video+Voice/2740308/story.html
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