Carolina QuotesMost Western music is people singing from the heart — singing to a girlfriend, so a lot of people are freaked out by our songs [...] But our lyrics are just stories. They’re just written to be as gross and disgusting as we could make them. At night we’d get a case of beer and watch gory horror movies. [...] We just play extreme music so we figured we needed extreme lyrics.
Alex Webster Connected to the Carolinas
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“Most Western music is people singing from the heart — singin…” Alex Webster. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-03593EAC42. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/03593eac42
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