"We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right"
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A rock veteran talking like a startup founder is its own kind of honesty. Nikki Sixx frames the decision in the language of momentum: "growing new fan base", "get out now", "play now", "timing was right". It's not poetic, but it is pointed. The repetition of "now" does the real work, turning what could sound like routine tour promo into a minor manifesto against nostalgia. This isn't about commemorating a past era; it's about refusing to be archived.
The intent is practical: justify a return to the road as demand-driven rather than ego-driven. Yet the subtext is more revealing. A "new fan base" is an implicit rebuttal to the most common insult lobbed at legacy acts: that they're playing to the same aging crowd, reenacting the greatest hits for people who already know the moves. Sixx is signaling relevance, not just endurance. He's also pre-empting the suspicion that touring is a financial necessity by making it sound like a choice dictated by cultural timing, a window that could close.
Context matters here because rock touring has become the primary proof-of-life in a streaming economy that pays in fractions and attention spans. "The timing was right" is less mysticism than logistics: post-album cycles, festival slots, platform algorithms, and the fragile economics of being a band in 2020s entertainment. The line sells urgency, but it also admits a quiet truth: in modern rock, you don't wait for the perfect moment. You capitalize on the moment you still have.
The intent is practical: justify a return to the road as demand-driven rather than ego-driven. Yet the subtext is more revealing. A "new fan base" is an implicit rebuttal to the most common insult lobbed at legacy acts: that they're playing to the same aging crowd, reenacting the greatest hits for people who already know the moves. Sixx is signaling relevance, not just endurance. He's also pre-empting the suspicion that touring is a financial necessity by making it sound like a choice dictated by cultural timing, a window that could close.
Context matters here because rock touring has become the primary proof-of-life in a streaming economy that pays in fractions and attention spans. "The timing was right" is less mysticism than logistics: post-album cycles, festival slots, platform algorithms, and the fragile economics of being a band in 2020s entertainment. The line sells urgency, but it also admits a quiet truth: in modern rock, you don't wait for the perfect moment. You capitalize on the moment you still have.
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