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 TITLE: Like Snakes
ARTIST: Vile Hour (N. Fischer & C. Drake)
GENRE: Alternative rock, punk cabaret, dark cabaret
LENGTH: 3:04Like SnakesAfter their debut album, Common Technicalities, which was a smashing success and said by vocalist Nichole Fischer to me "better than the best sex you've ever had," Vile Hour is coming back with the second single released for their next album to follow up Common Technicalities. Like Snakes continues on the same punk cabaret, dark rock feeling that Vile Hour has become known for over time. Nichole Fischer and drummer, Castor Drake, say that they see no reason to change their sound. "The moment our music starts getting classified as "pop" or "dance" or anything fucking normal like that, we'll change the sound," Castor Drake stated. "But for now, we're about the only punk cabaret band out there, and we're claiming our turf." Since their first album, both Fischer and Drake have gone through many changes. Drake first getting married to Nina Sangria, after it was publicly revealed that he had had a daughter he was keeping secret from his fans and the press. Both his daughter and the marriage were taken with open arms from the public, and the Drake family has continued on with their lives, both parents continuing to make music, and have a (very) short lived TV show around their B-list lives. Nichole Fischer, at the time of the debut album Nichole Shade, had a much more chaotic life following the release of their debut album. After a very popular stint on Celebrity Big Brother, where she was openly intimate with many members of the cast, mostly Erica Hess of The Harlots, she went on to date and later marry Sam Fischer of Acts of Hate. Before that happy ending, many well-documented acts of drama and selfishness happened, including Nichole supposedly making Erica Hess cheat on her then girlfriend, Natalya Dobros, former Lashes member, just to prove that she could, and then scheduling her wedding on the same day of Erica and Natalya's to make everybody choose which wedding to go to. Throughout all of this immaturity, Nichole Fischer and Erica Hess have remained constant friends, and even Natalya Hess and Nichole Fischer have started on friendly terms with one another.
Nichole Fischer has stated that the song Like Snakes was written shortly after Erica Hess was voted off of Celebrity Big Brother. As many people who watched the show remember, Nichole and Erica's relationship when Erica was voted off was very much up-in-the-air, as both girls had shown a lot of intimacy and passion towards each other, but when Erica asked Nichole to be her girlfriend, Nichole refused. Nichole later explained that she had refused her because of Erica Hess' then marriage to the notorious Erich Hess, who is now married to the singer, Ada von Wannemaker.
Quote:"Erica leaving was actually pretty hard for me to deal with. I mean, I stuck it out, but after she left, I immediately had this thought that I loved her... That sounds crazy, but the moment the door shut behind her, my first thought was, "Oh my god, I'm in love with her." Heh, I do love her, but I love her in the way that you love your sister. Completely unconditional, but in a different way than you love your husband or your... girlfriend. I sat in the bed that Erica and I had slept in all those nights and wrote this song the night that Erica left. I found it a few months later. It's short and sweet, but it captures my emotions of that night perfectly, and I need to share it. That sudden feeling of love... That can't just be something that I've felt. So many people mistaken that feeling of loneliness for love, and I'm sure that's exactly what had happened that night. That's what the song means to me, but that doesn't have to be what the song means to the listener. In fact, I hope it's not. I hope they find their own meaning... And I hope they share it with me.
The song mostly uses a soft, quiet, but very quickly paced piano throughout it. Nichole's emotions explode through her words as she sings in a voice just as soft as the piano, almost in a whisper. Throughout the song, her voice often breaks and sounds scratchy, as if she were very tired or just woken up. Nichole did this on purpose to give the song the same feeling that she had when she was writing the song very late at night. Her voice starts growing a sort of confidence as she continues into the 2nd verse, Castor Drake coming in with the drums to keep a calm, steady beat. As Nichole's voice gets stronger and stronger, so does the piano, until, by the end of the song at "But you can't find your way out of me," she's practically screaming the lyrics in the Vile Hour way that we've all come to know and love. There's a short instrumental break as the piano and drums have a sort of orgy of beautiful sound, before coming back down again in the same quiet, soft melody they were playing in the before time. Nichole whispers the very last line of the song, and the piano plays a final note before fading out.Your tomorrow is raining all over my today
And it's hard to hear that it's over, you say
But it's love
It's love
And the moonlit cracks on our window
Leave spins of light in the dust
You gather your things in the fluoro-lit night
And I think I'll be alirght
You could tell me anything
And I'd believe it
You're so sure of your own heart
Your heart
But it's love
It's love
I shed people like snakes shed skin
I'm not proud of it, I'm not proud
But you can't find your way out of me
I shed people like snakes shed skinSOUNDS LIKE & THE CULTURE UNCUT ARTICLE ON THE SONG:
Culture Uncut's Article on the SongQuote:Too Soon or Too Late?
Vile Hour's newest single may make certain people uncomfortable
Anybody who is anybody who is anybody remembers Nichole Fischer's stint on Celebrity Big Brother. Between drinking, sucking dicks, and eating pussy, Nichole caught almost everybody's attention, and probably surpassing Suzie's whorishness in just a few weeks. So let's be honest here, who really expected Nichole to be the type that, only a few months after Big Brother, would get married and be pregnant. The happily married, five month pregnant punk cabaret star has finally started settling down... But not before some drama.
On Big Brother, Nichole Fischer met her best friend and, briefly, her lover, Erica Hess. Although Erica Hess has asked, several times, if we remember correctly, for Nichole Fischer to be her girlfriend, Nichole had been openly uncomfortable with dating Erica at the time, because Erica had been married to the notorious Erich Hess. Fast forward a couple months later, thank you! Nichole Fischer (at the time, Nichole Shade) is engaged to Sam Fischer of death metal band Acts of Hate, and Erica Hess is divorced from Erich Hess and dating former Lashes member, Natalya Dobros. So what does Nichole do? She tries her luck with Erica Hess, and both of them end up, for a brief moment, thinking about leaving their significant others for each other. Of course, as we all know, nothing came of it, and both Sam Fischer and Nichole and Erica Hess and Natalya Hess are married. End of the story, right? At least it should be.
Until Nichole comes announces her new single's topic: Erica Hess.
Quote:"It's all old news. It was a song that I wrote while I was in the Big Brother house about Erica and how I felt, and it was, I feel like, a good song... So I don't think it should go to waste. A song is a song is a song. It doesn't matter what I meaning I put into the song, it only matters what meaning the listener puts into the song..."
Nichole said when asked about it. She explains that the feelings in the song are old news for herself, but she thinks that a lot of people can relate to being unsure about their feelings, and confusing many emotions for love.
So what do you think? Should Nichole Fischer have released a song about something so personal, and that obviously caused so much of a riff before? Do you think that this might cause more problems with her friends, especially with Natalya Hess, who Nichole just recently became friendly with?
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