Self-described “FUTUREPUNK” project The Plague is raging against haters and self-doubt on its synth-surged new single, “Say What You Want to Say.”
The song was crafted by producer-founder David Adam Monroe, who fits this latest Plague arrangement with dance-punk beats, electric youth keyboard tones and pop-industrial guitar work. Lyrically, he notes in a statement that the song was written to combat “self-doubt and criticism,” and was likewise “inspired by the universal struggle of battling inner and outer negativity.”
“I spend a ton of time in the studio, and it’s very easy to get critical voices coming in and criticizing me,” Monroe explains. “I started to ask myself where do these voices come from and tell them to F off! I started to realize that a lot of haters say the same things as the voices in my head which really leads me to believe it’s a universal spiritual attack. This song is flipping the bird to that whole attitude.”
Monroe also adds that the lyric “I can’t put the beat to the music” was originally plotted-out as as a place-holder line, but he grew to love it, despite the sorta-sexual connotation.
He explains: “It was funny because ‘beat to the music’ is not a title I want for obvious reasons… then the next line, ‘say my name,’ also had the same problems. We went with ‘Say What You Want to Say’… that passes the sexual innuendo test.”
The Plague’s “Say What You Want to Say” is streaming now, and will likewise be a part of the project’s The Divided States of Hysteria album, which Monroe had previously teased through a handful of earlier singles.
Described as “a sonic manifesto diving into themes of addiction, identity, societal pressures, self-reflection and the complex duality of human nature,” the album arrives in full tomorrow (February 28th) via FiXT Records.