Whitney Gulden
“I just remember seeing act after act of this inane, innocuous, plastic music. They were bubbly gossamer-thin groups, where it was really more about the clothes they wore and the length of their cheekbones than it was about the content of the song they were singing.
‘Through Glass’ is really a very angry song. It’s me basically calling ‘bullshit’ on pretty much everyone involved with the ‘American Idol’-type shows. It has its place, but when you’re basically cornering the market and making it very hard for anyone who actually writes their own music to get ahead, then it’s wrong and that’s really why I wrote this song,” said lead vocalist Corey Taylor of Stone Sour on their single “Through Glass” in July of 2006 (for an article on theguantlet.com).
Stone Sour is classified as an alternative and hard rock metal band, but the depth of emotion and soul in this “angry song” is all of its charm. It’s a slow song. From a metal band. That has underlying lyrical poetry of the problems with mainstream music. Can you tell that it’s the only song I’ve been listening to for three days?
We’ve got the album version’s music video, the epic performance at the 2007 Pinkpop concert, an acoustic performance at The Edge. Not bad for a second single from Stone Sour’s second studio album Come What(Ever) May released in 2006.
Right now the band is recording a third album with their label, Roadrunner Records. Just this month they announced the album title to be “Audio Secrecy”. Corey Taylor also said in an interview from this week on the album to MTV news, “It’s so good, man. Every song has a catchy hook — even the heavy stuff — every song is loaded with melody. It’s still got the attitude, but it’s there. It’s probably the best thing I’ve done in a long time.”
