Queens of the Stone Age mastermind Josh Homme commented on some of the fans calling him a sellout for working with producer Mark Ronson on latest album “Villains,” telling Brian Oake:
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“No, I was expecting [the hate]. It would be safe to understand that I might have known that that was going to happen.
“I do believe that there’s no stasis or static in life. You’re growing or dying. And, I feel if I’m challenging myself and if we’re challenging each other, we’re going in the right direction.
“The by-product of that is that anyone that’s into us should expect the poke in the chest because we’re doing it to ourselves first.
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“Part of me thinks that every time we put something out, we may lose 20% of the people. That 20% of the people might go: ‘It’s changed! Where’s my band that I had?’ You can pre-suppose that.
“I told this to Ronson, ‘If 15 percent of the people don’t hate you, you suck.’ He said: ‘I’m just trying to get it to 40.'”a