Sometimes it just takes one song to save an artist from fading into obscurity. For New York-based funk metal icons Living Colour, that song is their 1988 iconic classic “Cult of Personality.” In a recent interview with YouTube talk show The Logan Show as reported on by Metal Injection, Living Colour frontman Corey Glover talked about how that one song is what saved him and his bandmates from working terrible jobs for the rest of their lives. Says Glover in the interview:
“I think if it weren’t for that song, I’d be working for UPS. How about that? If it weren’t for that song and the evergreen nature of that song, because it seems like every so often it pops up in very interesting places — with CM Punk or the video games or Guitar Hero or even within the political discourse, where people use it and quote it on newscasts. It has a weird sort of continuing life that I am very happy and very grateful that it exists.”
It’s true that the song has popped up in everything from a pro-wrestler’s intro music to Guitar Hero to the series finale of The Walking Dead. It’s just one of those songs that’s forever relevant. There’s more than a few cults of personality in modern society, after all.
In the interview, Glover also talked about going back into the studio with Living Colour next month, with hopes of new material to be released by 2025, as well as the documentary in the works about the band by W. Kamau Bell, which Glover said is in its beginning stages right now. Glover also has a new project called Sonic Universe with Adrenaline Mob Guitarist Mike Orlando in addition to bassist Booker king and drummer Taykwuan Jackson. Their debut album It is What it Is is out May 10 from earMUSIC.