Bring Me the Horizon’s Oliver Sykes on His Own Song “Medicine”: “Even I Think That Song is Shit”

Here’s one that I’m sure the haters will eat up. It would seem that even Bring Me the Horizon hate some Bring Me the Horizon songs. According to a video uploaded to Twitter, frontman Oli Sykes heard a fan requesting the band’s 2019 hit single “Medicine” and responded rather dismissively about his own song during a recent performance in Germany.

“‘Medicine’? Are you guys all right? You guys would like to hear ‘Medicine’? Even I think that song is shit.”

Presumably, Sykes thought highly enough of the song in 2019 to put it on the album and release it as a single, so it would seem that somewhere in the last five years he’s become disenchanted with his own pop-metal hit song. In fact, in a 2019 interview with NME, Sykes and then-keyboardist Jordan Fish had a lot of positive things to say about the song. Well, it was more Fish saying good things about the album, but Sykes seemed to agree with Fish’s statements. Here’s what Fish said at the time:

“When we wrote it, we just really liked it. We were just like ‘This is a cool song.’ It was always going to be on the album, wasn’t it?”

The move towards a more pop sound on “Medicine” was unpopular with a lot of metal fans, including the MetalSucks staff circa 2019. A lot of metalheads accused them of becoming a pure pop band, and forsaking their metal elements altogether. So maybe the backlash to the song soured Sykes on his own creation. But then there’s also the fact that Fish split from the band late last year and, as we’ve been reporting, it wasn’t as amicable a breakup as it was originally painted to be. So perhaps Fish’s involvement with the song has something to do with Sykes changing his mind.