Below you can watch the Falling In Reverse new video ”Watch The World Burn”.
The video features a Sebastian Bach lookalike, and the scene where he gets hit in the head by a falling laptop, apparently in reference to a recent contention between Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke and Sebastian Bach.
Earlier singer Ronnie Radke called Sebastian Bach rude for his snide remarks about Falling In Reverse‘s missing laptops, and added that his band’s reliance on backing tracks for other purposes doesn’t mean he’s also lip-syncing on stage.
In an interview with WRIF’s Meltdown, Radke said:
“I stand my ground and I just stand by what I believe in. Sebastian was so rude; he’s rude. Some prominent people in music DMed me. It made me feel a lot better. I don’t wanna call them out. But they were on my side. Even some famous wrestlers, some huge legendary wrestlers, hit me up too.
“And they were, like, ‘He’s always been an a**hole.’ I’m, like, ‘What do you mean?’ I didn’t know this. I had no idea. He was, like, ‘Yeah. Look.’ And he shows me his screen[shots]. I’m, like, ‘God, he’s so rude to a lot of people. Oh my God.”
Arguing that his beef with Sebastian Bach is a part of the larger issue of older rockers not understanding how and why younger bands rely on backing tracks so much, Radke went on:
“It started because I said I couldn’t play a show ’cause our laptops are like our engine, and I stand by that. Our biggest song is almost multiplatinum, and it was No. 1 on the radio, and 60 percent of the song is literally a rap beat. Am I supposed to, like… They don’t understand that; they just don’t get it. It’s not like Skid Row or Mötley Crüe. Even Mötley Crüe — Nikki Sixx came to my defense, man. I think that’s super cool. He defended me too.
“For anybody that’s a dinosaur that doesn’t understand what I’m saying right now — that’s literally a dinosaur — every single band that you heard in the past 20 years has laptops. Kiss — I mean, all these older bands have laptops.”
Adding that all of his fans stood by him during the spat, Radke went on to explain that reliance on backing tracks for additional effects doesn’t mean that there’s any “faking” involved on the stage:
“I’m, like, ‘Bro, if you think I’m faking it, just go on YouTube and watch any video. Tweet me a video where it looks like I’m faking it.’ And nobody can. There’s no faking it. We’re not faking it. We need our rap beats. We need our synths.
“We could have, like, 25 people on stage, if that’s what makes Sebastian Bach happy. I’m sure nobody else would care. Six different f*cking keyboard players. Let me get two more buses on tour, which will cost 250 thousand dollars, and their pay and hotels, just so Sebastian Bach is, like, ‘That’s real.'”
