In the Dressing Room with Chris Cornell

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Hey, Young Hollywood RJ here with the legendary Chris Cornell.

We also brought along Miriam, who is the ultimate rock star encyclopedia.

Hi Miriam.

So what are some of the things we want to know about Chris?

Well, your new single Long Gone, my favorite song on your new album.

You let me down time to go, that's long gone.

What was the inspiration behind that song?

You talk about letting go and timing and pretty heavy topics.

Initially, it kind of was was sort of a letting go of a relationship song.

that where, you know, I had that moment where it could actually be okay.

But then it started to mean a lot of different things to me.

in a sense, passing on from one generation to another, something, you know, whether it's life experiences or love or just the certain sentiments or something like that.

You've had an amazing career spanning decades.

Your work with Soundgarden, as well as your solo work.

And you've described this latest effort, Scream, as being, you know, your masterpiece.

And, you know, the most important work of your career.

How is that so?

I think Timberland referred to it as a masterpiece.

I think it's like as important as anything I've ever done.

Maybe like in 10 years if you ask me, I would say absolutely that's that's a masterpiece.

But you know, it takes that time for objectivity.

It's much more than I expected going in with Timberland to make an album.

You know, we really were just focusing on making an album worth of songs.

We knew it was going to sound unlike anything that either of us had ever done and I love performing it.

Live is really one of the things about it where it really gets to unfold because when I do headlining shows, I kind of do whatever I want from any period and mix that all together, which includes really old songs, it includes songs from different solo projects that are pretty mellow, core of songs, it includes really aggressive with rock.

When I hit songs from Scream, really like, it doesn't sound like anything else.

The the only way I can get to that place rhythmically and sonically is to play those songs and it's opened up the live set to me a lot.

Even if I wanted to do someone else's song, it wouldn't do that.

Um.

Well let's talk about that a little bit because you're talking about the remixes.

I mean DJ A and I okey.

LMFAO who you guys at Young Hollywood know well because we've interviewed a bunch of times.

Like Chris Cornell and and these names in the same sentence, you wouldn't expect that.

The the LMFAO is the first remakes I heard of part of me.

It's crazy.

And it was like really crazy because the the thing that's exciting to me about the remix is like what I did with Michael Jackson's Billy Jean.

And I completely reinvented the song and yet when I perform it or people listen to it, it still sounds like that song.

That to me is kind of the miracle of music.

Speaking of unlikely collaborations.

Vladimir Klitschko as a dancing cowboy in your video, part of me.

Yeah.

Somebody was going to have to be the dancing cowboy and it sure as hell wasn't going to be me.

How do you pick Vladimir Klitschko to be that cowboy?

It was one of his dreams to like be in a rock video.

He's a huge fan.

So he really keyed in on that song.

And um asked if he could be in the video.

Any advice for people that are aspiring to be musicians?

Chances are you're going to be like me and you have to work a day job and that takes up a lot of time and makes you really tired when you get home.

Um, and just fight for that time to make the music that inspires you and hang on to that, don't change it for anything.

Um, good things will happen.