In a new interview with NME while promoting Garbage’s new album “Let All That We Imagine Be the Light,” singer Shirley Manson touched a bit on the political situation in the United States. Manson, who lives in LA with her husband, told the London based publication that it felt good to be out of the country, taking a brief break from the “fascist regime.”
“It’s been heavenly to get out of the madness for a minute,” Manson said. “With certainty, I can say that things are going to get worse. That’s what’s so terrifying. They’re just getting started. It’s very, very serious and I’m not sure that everyone quite fully grasps just how mental this has got, and how it will continue to get more mental.”
She continued, explaining how everything going on in the country and around the world shaped the band’s new record.
“I will literally go mad if I don’t try and employ some kind of belief in humankind’s ability to turn the boat around,” she said. “Although every single day I get up and open my phone and it looks more and more desperate, chaotic and insane. It doesn’t seem to be improving.
“But when we wrote this album last year, I was fully invested in my hope as a form of resistance and disobedience.”
