Earlier this week, the Grammy-nominated, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award-winning band frying pan announced the release of a new single, “Unpopular,” and a new album, “Revolution.”
ChurchLeaders spoke to the frontman of Skillet, John Cooperabout the band’s new music and the meaning behind the album.
Cooper described Skillet’s new song as sounding “a little rougher” than their last record, “Dominion” – in other words, it’s more “rocking”, he said.
“Unpopular” was written with both a funny and serious attitude. “It says that the world has gone so crazy that the things the world loves are so gross and crazy – would you really want to be popular in a world gone crazy?” Cooper said. “That’s kind of the joke of the song.”
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For example, whether people really want to be on the side of the popular, Cooper suggested. “Do you want to be on the side of the people who are cheering – Oh, it’s so great! I can watch the Olympic ceremony with my kids and see Drag Queen pretend that they Imitation of the Lord’s Supper. Isn’t that great? We are so popular.”
“So we said, ‘No, I don’t want to be on that team,'” he added. “I want to be on the side of the normal people.”
The lyrics of the chorus are:
“Unpopular, unpopular / Call me, shut up / Can’t add true facts / You hear? I’m a simple person / Got my family, my mind, everything I need / If freedom is a disease / Who would ever want to be popular? / I think today is a good day to be unpopular.”
Cooper said the song expresses the band’s message that the members “want to be on the side of people who say, ‘Oh, I still like raising my family, going to church, loving my kids, not being weird and loving freedom.'”
