Ronnie Radke recently responded to Oli Sykes using his video director and disclosed why he now had respect for the Bring Me The Horizon frontman on X.
The rocker first shared how Sykes had been collaborating with a video director, who Falling In Reverse often worked with. Then, Radke shared why he’d gained ‘so much’ respect for the BMTH vocalist:
“Oli Sykes went to the video director I use because he was inspired by mine, and guess what he told him [was], ‘I like what you did [with Falling In Reverse], but I don’t want to copy…’ He went out of his way to make a video that was his own. I gained so much respect for Oli after I was told this, this is what I mean.”
He continued by further detailing why it mattered that Oli had gone ‘out of his way to make a video that was his own:’
“Instead of just ripping, he went out of his way to do his own thing. I respect that sh*t, same with Ice Nine Kills. They do there own thing. This is what I mean.”
Radke then shared how artists often didn’t ‘acknowledge’ taking inspiration from others:
“You know what I think it is? I think it’s the fact that people don’t acknowledge the inspiration. Like, they see something doing good and try to do it, but pretend like they got it from somewhere else because they don’t want to come off like they’re jacking a current thing. For me, I mention my inspirations.”
The Falling In Reverse frontman then continued by listing those ‘inspirations:’
“In my music, like, it’s so obvious I grew up listening to Eminem and loved horror movies and Batman, etc. You can hear my Eminem inspiration in my rapping. And I literally say it in my songs. Let’s make 2024 the year we give credit to each other. And stop lying.”
He finished off his words by paying other bands, including BMTH, homage:
“Bring Me the Horizon is inspiring. Bad Omens is inspiring. Parkway Drive is inspiring. Architects is inspiring, and so on.”
You can check out Radke’s tweets below.
https://twitter.com/RonnieRadke/status/1703801323039146456
https://twitter.com/RonnieRadke/status/1703799566309409205
