Florence + The Machine have released Everybody Scream, and Florence Welch takes us inside the making of the band's sixth studio album sharing the stories behind the songs during Florence + The Machine: On The Record.
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"It was a very good incentive to get this album done because I really wanted to put it out on Halloween," Florence says of the release date for Everybody Scream. "I guess I was thinking about more to the original traditions of Halloween when it was sort of a festival about the veil between the living and the dead being at its thinnest, and there was a lot of themes of life and death on this record. I also look to a lot of folk horror and horror movies and kind of magic and mysticism, you know, that's all over this record. So, it just kind of seemed like the perfect time."
In addition to talking about some of the themes and stories surrounding Everybody Scream, Florence also talked in-depth about the pressure on women to "have it all" and the forces against young female artists in the industry.
"I only realized now because I've seen it over and over again, happening to generations and generations of young female artists is this pedestalizing you when you're so young, you're just like a baby," she shares. "You are blasted everywhere, you're in everyone's faces and then everyone tells you you're terrible and they hate you, and you're so young and there's a cycle of press. I think the thing that breaks my heart now is it stopped happening, the press now just feeds off social media. Do you know what I mean? So it's like the cycles have just got faster for artists and I'm like, 'oh my God, if I had had that,' like I just about survived it just being the press. If I had had that as well, oh my God, like really I don't know how I would have got through that."
It's a spooky special to end a frightening Florence-filled weekend. Don't miss Florence + The Machine: On The Record, now playing above.
Everybody Scream is available everywhere.