Nikki Sixx Takes Shots at the Media: “They Don’t Do Their Research”
As a member of the monolithic “media” that everyone loves to complain about, I’ll admit that sometimes the people writing the news get things wrong from time to time. Everyone is wrong sometimes; that’s inevitable. We’re all human. But what can also happen is that people want their news in quick, digestible sound bites and only quickly skim articles or even just read the headline before making assumptions about what the article says. And that’s only gotten worse in the age of social media. But following a recent quote from Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx that was picked up by a number of metal news outlets, Sixx is pissed.
Just a few weeks back, almost every metal site online picked up a story about Nikki Sixx saying in an interview that he didn’t “see a reason right now” to go back into the studio. In a recent interview with Tuscon, Arizona radio station Rock 102.1 KFMA (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Sixx clarified his statement and accused the media or leaving out the larger context of his quote:
“When somebody takes a conversation of mine and they say, ‘Hey, are you planning on going in the studio?’ And I say, ‘We don’t see a reason to go in the studio right now.’ ‘Cause we just recorded three songs [in April 2023]. We were just in the recording studio. We have a second single coming. We have a third single coming. So we’re not in a rush to… Vince [Neil, MÖTLEY CRÜE singer] lives in Tennessee. I live in Wyoming. We’re on tour. So what I said was, like, well, first of all, we’re always creating — always creating. And I was working on something this morning. I was just playing bass. My daughter was getting ready for school and I’m, like, ‘Whoa, what’s that?’ And I put it on my little voice messages and I will eventually show it to the band or [our longtime producer] Bob [Rock] or whatever.
“But that’s what I don’t like about media is they don’t do their research. And then people are going, ‘Oh, MÖTLEY CRÜE is not going in the studio.’ We didn’t say that. We said we just got out of the studio. So if LED ZEPPELIN just got out of the studio and you ask Jimmy Page, ‘Hey, when are you going back to the studio?’ and he goes, ‘Well, I don’t really see the need to. I just recorded an album.’ And they’re, like, ‘Jimmy Page says LED ZEPPELIN’s never gonna make music again.’ It’s really messed up. But I hate that for the fans.”
For the record, when MetalSucks covered this story, our lead editor Hesher Keenan clarified in his article on the subject that the quote referred to the fact that the band was committed to a number of festivals and already had some songs recorded. The article then included the full quote in the proper context. I’d say the bigger problem is people skimming or just reading the headline and making assumptions based on that.
If you want to catch Mötley Crüe at their upcoming shows, most of which are festival appearances—which are part of the reason they’re not going back into the studio anytime soon—here’s the dates to catch them at:
Aug 10 – Springfield, IL @ Illinois State Fair
Aug 17 – Thackerville, OK @ Lucas Oil Live at WinStar World Casino and Resort
Aug 29 – St. Paul, MN @ Minnesota State Fair
Aug 31 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
Sep 26 – Hollywood, FL @ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood Heliport
Sep 28 – Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life
Oct 13 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock
