War You Started

Album: Ready For Me (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • This defiant song was inspired by both an industry conflict and a relationship issue. Madame Mayhem won't give details because she doesn't want to give those who affected her the satisfaction of knowing they inspired a song. "I don't want them to get a big ego," she said in a Songfacts interview. "They don't deserve the credit."
  • Mayhem wrote this song with the brothers Clint and Corey Lowery (Clint is a member of Sevendust). She explained: "Corey was like 'OK, we need to write about this immediately because you're going through so much stuff.' In the writing session I was freaking out. I was so stressed out, and I was like, 'I don't know how I'm going to write, there's all this stuff in my head.' And he's like, 'This is what we're going to write about.'"
  • The video, directed by Gogi Randhawa, shows Mayhem in her distinctive spikes and boots. She says it's not far off from how she looks offstage. "I love bikes and dark eye-liner and all those clothes anyway, but it's definitely heightened on stage," she said. "I just change into more spiky boots to get on the stage. So really it's the same, it's just thoroughly heightened."

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