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en medias res 00
"My lyrics aren't messages, they're
more like cause and effect. 'Sex Type Thing' is written from the point of view of your bar-room mentality person, maybe gone a little wild. It deals with the typical male ideas about sex - that if you arouse me it's my right to have my way with you. If you wear that, if you go out looking like that it means you wanna get fucked."
Dean
Explaining the lyrics to "Sex Type Thing" which had caused such an uproar:
"Don't ask me why, but so many people look up to those in our situation. We're all just real tired of how women are fucking perceived and treated around, especially in the United States. It's just something that really weighs on Weiland's head, as well as the rest of the band. I don't think we wanted to come out and make a statement, that's how we wrote the song the way we did. The way the song was done, Weiland put himself in that first position where he was speaking from behind the eyes of that fucked-up person. I think the way he approached that was very, very cool."
"All the way. We totally are. It was meant to be like this. Hopefully, their career will keep going, so yours will keep going too. But who fucking gives a shit if you like the record, man. If you do and you tell me you like it and that's your honest thing, great. If you tell me you don't like it, and that's your honest thing..... Anybody who thinks everybody's going to like everything has got a
fucking problem. The press is responsible for a lot of things that have brought a lot of
cynicism on artisis."