Dee Snider revealed that Twisted Sister would reunite in 2024, providing their help to political causes.
“Subsequent yr, you are gonna see some Twisted Sister reunions, at completely different political rallies that want our help,” the singer admitted to Yahoo. A part of the reasoning, Snider defined, was as a result of their music “We’re Not Gonna Take It” has develop into a well-liked rallying cry for each causes they help, and people they’re towards.
“The band has a priority that the music is being co-opted by the acute proper… and we need to make it possible for folks nonetheless comprehend it’s a music for everyone and it doesn’t characterize that egocentric micro group,” the vocalist defined. “It’s actually for the mass folks, the reasonable folks, the folks that simply need to dwell their lives, be themselves, and never have folks inform ’em they cannot be themselves. So, I feel you will see us at political rallies and stuff like that. We’ll be on the market subsequent yr.”
Twisted Sister retired in 2016 and has reportedly turned down “profitable affords” since then to return. The band reunited for the primary time in seven years throughout a January efficiency at their Heavy Steel Corridor of Fame induction.
Elsewhere, Snider was lately unmasked because the Doll on an episode of the hit TV sequence The Masked Singer. His elaborate costume included excessive heels, which he joked about having beforehand worn for Twisted Sister exhibits. “It’s like driving a motorcycle. I wore them within the ‘70s. All of it got here again to me as soon as I put them on,” the rocker famous.
Requested by Yahoo about his historical past of sporting girls’s garments – together with the present controversy surrounding drag bans – Snider was candid.
“My band wouldn’t be allowed to carry out in Texas,” the Twisted Sister singer declared. “We might fall below that heading, the brand new rule, in the event that they move these guidelines — males sporting lipstick, nail polish and make-up. So, do I stand with the [LGBTQ+/drag] group? 100%. I heard the group has reached out about utilizing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as their battle cry, and I stated, ‘With my blessing, brothers and sisters! Go for it!’ I stand with them. Look…. I used to be not homosexual, I used to be heterosexual, and I nonetheless had lots of points with lots of people as a result of I wore the issues I wore within the ‘70s and even into the ‘80s. So, I have been on the receiving finish. I get what they undergo.”
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