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In the living album experience, audience members were literally given yellow & green kitchen sponges tagged with the letters "STDR" on them and prompted to sponge each other. The performers ran amok wildly.
This STDR tradition lives on today in concert venues as patrons may leave with a sponge souvenir.
Sultry, bombastic, genre-bending merge of post-industrial and torrid post-rock , BAD BATH takes you on a ride whilst examining adulthood, essentialism, existential angst, self-acceptance and connectivity.
Says Priess: “‘Bad Bath’ was the fourth song, I wrote under the name STUNTDRIVER yet it was the debut single. Although my intention was to venture into more-electroclash musical territory with the project, I was craving the return to an uptempo-punk-like anthem. Clearly with the song, I wanted to examine habits, patterns and behavior that no longer serve us, in a campy and visceral way. This was the non-linear canvas that was presenting itself for the examination of an issue I had struggled with once I hit my 30s. Every single time my birthday rolled around, much to my own personal disappointment, I cried. On March 1st every year I, myself (and probably those dear to me) feared my day of birth. Then I hit my 40s. BAM! After years of feeling completely lame and ashamed of this behavior, I finally realized what was underneath it. I was quite simply incredibly afraid that I was not living the life / fulfilling the purpose I’d always dreamed of. Then suddenly, it just stopped. Just like that. Did I will it to do so? Perhaps. Has supposed age and wisdom brought some sort of acceptance, confidence and solidarity ? I damn hope so!
We all have our struggles. How we handle it is up to us. No matter one’s circumstances, we have all been in the same dirty 'ol bathtub at one point or another.
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lyrics
Wash, Wash, Wash it go
Wash, Wash, Wash it go
Wash, Wash, Wash it go
Wash, Wash
You’re late to the show
I took a bad bath
It was a sad bath
I took a bad bath
Just kept running
Wash, Wash, Wash it go
Wash, Wash
You’re late to the show
Wash, Wash, Wash it go
Wash, Wash, Wash it go
I don’t cry on my birthday no more
I don’t lie on my birthday no more
I took a bad bath
It was a should bath
I want a warm bath
Waves keep forming
I took a bad bath
It was a cold bath
I want some heart math
Drain keeps clogging
We’re gonna drown
We’re gonna drown
Help me plse
We’re gonna drown
We’re gonna drown
Follow me
We’re gonna drown
We’re gonna drown
Don’t cry
We’re gonna drown
We’re gonna drown
It’s all a lie
I took a bad bath
credits
from SAGA,
track released December 5, 2018
Written by Kym Priess
Engineered, Mixed & Produced by John Avila & Anton Söder
Additional Bass Tracking by Zach Summerill
Mastered by Gavin Lurssen
Vocals - Kym Priess
Backing Vocals - John Avila
Programming - Anton Söder
Live Drums - Jimmy Lucido
Bass - Kym Priess, John Avila
Synths - Kym Priess, Anton Söder
Guitars - Kym Priess, Anton Söder, Ryan James
STUNTDRIVER is an LA-based performance-driven genre-bending rock spectacle that is straddling music and art crowds with its
“Diva” Knievel-style white racecar suits, gold helmets, painted faces, Janet Jackson-esque choreography, camp aesthetics and bass-driven, dark-synth laced heavy electro-art rock that makes everyone feel like they’re on the same punk rock adventure together. ...more
