David Draiman: “Hey You” is basically a wake-up call. I think that the lockdown and the pandemic in general, the past two years, three years of our existence already at this point, has been this incredible, perfect storm of elements. We had isolation, we had removal from any kind of normalcy, we had people really go down the rabbit hole of social media in a big, big way. And if anything, it intensified the division that was already there. People really stick to their respective camps and their respective allegiances, whether it’s political or religious or otherwise. It’s become hyper-intensified over the course of these past number of years. This song is speaking to that [“outrage addiction”], it’s speaking to the fact that we’re our own worst enemy sometimes because of these little barriers we set up for ourselves. — via Loudwire
David Draiman: “Hey You” is basically a wake-up call. I think that the lockdown and the pandemic in general, the past two years, three years of our existence already at this point, has been this incredible, perfect storm of elements. We had isolation, we had removal from any kind of normalcy, we had people really go down the rabbit hole of social media in a big, big way. And if anything, it intensified the division that was already there. People really stick to their respective camps and their respective allegiances, whether it’s political or religious or otherwise. It’s become hyper-intensified over the course of these past number of years. This song is speaking to that [“outrage addiction”], it’s speaking to the fact that we’re our own worst enemy sometimes because of these little barriers we set up for ourselves. — via Loudwire