Ronnie Radke's New Band Releases "Listen Up"

Did you think a little thing like incarceration was going to stop ex-Escape The Fate frontman Ronnie Radke from making music? If you did, you were wrong.

Radke's new band, aptly named From Behind These Walls, have released their first single on iTunes.

 

"Listen Up" is on the band's MySpace for your listening pleasure.

I have a theory as to what's behind those walls: Puppies and sunshine and optimism. Oh sure, the lyrics are all motivational only in the "I'll show you" sort of way, but this could easily be pop-punk's version of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone."

WTF is going on in there? I'm not saying I don't like it, because I actually do in that guilty "Yes I once purchased a Mest CD" kind of way. But the snarl, the 'tude eminated from ETF's Dying Is Your Latest Fashion is but a mere memory in my iTunes.

Granted, this is only one song, but it comes off as a little unexpected given the... I don't know, imagery? I thought he was coming back "with a vengeance"? Is homeboy on anti-depressants and toting a life coach? Not that that there's anything wrong with that...

What do you think? I'm curious to hear lots of perspectives on this.

Buzznet member xxladyofsorrows59xx has posted the current line up for FBTW if you're interested. Back in January, they were using the new band's MySpace to urge fans to write the parole board.


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Posted by breesays on 04/01/2009 11:15 PM Visits: 7,388
onoitssharmini: 04/02/2009 4:00 AM
Oh jeez! well I am happy for him, loser Escape the Fate is sucking without him, so i guess my a new band! sweet!
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The Absent-Minded Professor.: 04/02/2009 4:48 AM
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The Absent-Minded Professor.: 04/02/2009 4:49 AM
(I totally made that with my own two hands, btw.)
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LoriIscKid: 04/02/2009 7:49 AM
:D etf is nothing without Ronnie :D but im so happy :D FBTW are awesome so far!!!
Shaye: 04/02/2009 8:01 AM
Hell yeah.
The new singer of ETF is nothing compared to him.
he's good but not as good.

I can't wait to buy it :]
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Trashcat Bailey: 04/02/2009 8:18 AM
For some reason, i flashed to Sum 41 when i heard this song. Bahahaha.
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owlicious: 04/02/2009 9:35 AM
yeahhh! ronnie's back!!! he's much better without escape the fate!
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LAH TrashyDrug: 04/02/2009 9:43 AM
Radke is tha bomb
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xxladyofsorrows59xx: 04/02/2009 11:45 AM
omg they included my line up!!! wtf? i've only been here about a month lol.
anyway, FBTW ROCK...a storm is coming and when it hits, it's gonna hit HARD XDDD
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worsethanafairytale: 04/02/2009 2:19 PM
tbh, i hate it.
escape the fate is better now. they have moved on, making better music

and ronnie still fails at making shit.
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suicidalsilhouette: 04/02/2009 2:43 PM
I love Ronnie so fuckin much & he's amazing! I do miss him being in ETF but he'll probably do better in this FBTW anyways!
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breesays: 04/02/2009 2:56 PM
Okayyy, most of you are not even giving your opinion on the song. DO IT. I don't care how much you love/hate/want Ronnie's jailbabies, I want to hear what you think of the song "Listen Up"
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marisolx45: 04/02/2009 3:17 PM
it's more Blink 182- ish, i guess. not even close though. I'll stick to the old Dying Is Your Latest Fashion.
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Hollywood Whore: 04/02/2009 3:18 PM
well... i kinda like the song... but idk. it sounds like it was made pre-jail time because he doesn't sound super drugged up. like... fbtw isn't a new band. they've been around. Ronnie needs to be out of the music industry a bit more so he gets off the drugs and his music stays good... not just death and misery.
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The Absent-Minded Professor.: 04/02/2009 3:29 PM
breesays said:
Okayyy, most of you are not even giving your opinion on the song. DO IT. I don't care how much you love/hate/want Ronnie's jailbabies, I want to hear what you think of the song "Listen Up"

WELL, I would've liked it A LOT better if the lyrics went a little more like this:

I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN THIS SONG WITH A SHOUT-OUT TO MY FAVORITE CELL MATE, BIG SHIRLEY. Love you, man!

Let me out of this prison
They didn't let me take my eyeliner
Because I might have stabbed someone with it

And I smell even worse now
Which I didn't think was possible
The shower kind of scares me

[begin: incoherant screaming solo]

RONNIE, EMAIL ME, BB. I GOT MORE IDEAS.
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