Rooney challenges Rooney to a football match
So we happened to chat with the singer dude in Rooney and it turns out that they know there is a certain Wayne Rooney in England. Not only that, but the band challenged him to a football game -- the catch is though that the 5 of them want to play against Wayne by himself. I think we know who would win that one... The band did say though that they wouldn't like to invite Wayne to collaborate on any songs. They don't think he can sing...
Oh, and another thing: Rooney don't like it when you steal their songs. Here is Robert Schwartzman.
"We didn't know Wayne in 2003, so we thought we were superstars when we went to England. But then we realized they weren't talking about our band… No, we're not named after him. It’s not helping our sales there, but at least they know how to pronounce the word. I would challenge him to a five-on-one soccer game but I wouldn’t have him singing with us.
We’re the band that sings "when did your heart go missing". Our music is catchy and melodic, lots of harmonies, our show is very tight and it sounds really good. We have a lot of hooks and it rocks. It's a rock and roll band with hooky songs.
We’re lucky. It would be stupid to not acknowledge the fact that there are so many bands vying for attention but we've been at it for about 9 years in the states working our asses off. before we had a deal we'd make demos and sell them ourselves. Our music is good and the band looks good and performs really well.
The business is in a crazy time. It'll continue to change. People who steal music really hurt the artists. We connect with fans and get airplay but people don't seem to go out and buy the record. We want to say this is bullshit. We make a really good product and they should support the artist and buy t-shirts that’s the only way to support the artists.
Too many bands are clouding the air, or people maybe are not as fanatical about bands anymore. Music is not as important for them. You have to appreciate it and you can't if you don't buy it. But you can't be knocked off course as an artist. Metallica were right to sue Napster. I wouldn't sue somebody for taking the record that liked the band but if there's a company that gives your music away for free it would like stealing coca-cola from the store. And now you can download whole movies, really good quality. People don't understand the work that goes into creating something. Maybe music is invisible that way, they think they don't need to pay for that. But then people get mad at you for criticizing them for taking it for free but if they knew."
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