In a recent chat with Metal Hammer, Nita Strauss shared what she thinks about metal fans.
“The thing about the rock and metal world – which I love and is my home – is that it’s a bunch of whiny, complainy babies,” the guitarist stated after saying that Demi Lovato’s fans are so loyal to her.
She added, “If a band makes a slight departure from what they’ve done before, the fanbase cries about it: ‘Everything they’re doing is terrible now!’ Metallica are the biggest band in the world and people still sh*t on their new stuff.”
In other news, Nita recently shared that she got sober after realizing she was a ‘dangerous addict.’ She told Metal Hammer, “I wouldn’t say I hit rock bottom. I’m not like Nikki Sixx, but I was a dangerous addict because whether I was doing drugs or drinking, I was very highly functional.”
She continued, “I was doing all these things that could have got me in trouble, but I never played a bad show, I was never falling-down sloppy. But it was really insidious, because it was bleeding into my personal life.”
Strauss later shared his partner’s words, “Some of the guys in the band had noticed it, but it took my partner Josh, who is now my husband, saying to me: ‘If you’re gonna be like this, I don’t know how long I’m going to be with you. I can’t watch you destroy your life like this.'”
“This was the highest point of my professional career so far, and it just seemed unfair – I couldn’t understand why I was getting picked on, and why I had to be boring and go to sleep early,” Nita also mentioned.
Strauss recently left Alice Cooper’s upcoming tour. Orianthi, who played with Cooper from 2011 to 2014, will join him from late January to mid-February 2025.
