Slipknot legend M. Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan was recently interviewed with Corey Taylor for Music Week, and he discussed Jack Black’s band Tenacious D beating Slipknot for a Grammy in 2015.
“I’m going to tell you, it’s easy, but I don’t know if it’s easily understood. All I know is you can walk outside your house right now and everything you see is somebody else’s idea. We live in a very, very, very fake world of safety. When a band like Tenacious D can win a metal Grammy with a cover [the duo controversially won a Grammy in 2015 for a cover of Dio’s The Last In Line, beating Slipknot’s single The Negative One], I mean, you tell me what they need to learn… What act do you have at something like the Grammys that is better than Slipknot?
What you can learn from us is: ‘Why aren’t you letting us in?’ It’s because then you’d have to let more [like us] in, and then your show would change, and then your magazine would change and then your TV channel would change. I get it, but see what I said first is that we all live in somebody’s else’s idea. What you can learn from Slipknot is this is our idea, and it’s not a very general idea to allow in because it’s very extreme. I understand that.
But if you’re not letting us in, you must not be letting a lot of stuff in, and isn’t that disservice? We perform real pain and give a real insight about human life and the experience of living reality – why are we not being invited in? I’ll tell you why, because everybody’s comfortable with the way things are, and I’ll tell you what, man, things aren’t good. Let’s learn how we can change. You might get healed, you might find some redemption and salvation.”
