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\nAmerican thrash metal act, METALLICA, shocked the music world earlier this year when they shared the stage at the Grammys in collaboration with pop star, Lady Gaga. The ‘mic fail’ incident as it has now come to be known as, goes down as perhaps the biggest technical blunder in front of a worldwide audience in the history of TV. 26 million of us scratched our heads while Gaga gyrated and Hetfield sang like an idiot into a dead microphone. Nonetheless, Lars Ulrich still plans to do more music with the singer. What that means exactly, only time will tell. We all had a good laugh with the fake news <\/a>of her actually joining METALLICA on their next record entitled “The White Album” this past April Fools. But is there a deeper connection going on between the band and the pop star then we are all being lead to believe?<\/p>\n
Today, TMD is going to analyze the lyrics to the song these two giants performed together that upon deeper examination will hopefully help all of us to understand how a downfall of such an important rock band could happen. “The song was somewhat inspired by the Amy Winehouse documentary, ‘Amy’, said Hetfield. When I watched it, it really made me sad that a talented person like that fell for the fame part of it.” <\/p>\n Fell for the fame, huh? And what do you call what your band is doing, James? Didn’t you and Lars succumb to the ‘fame game’ way back in the nineties? Remember when you cut off all of your hair and stopped playing thrash metal music? Thank Christ that a band like PANTERA did not do the same thing and always stayed true to the fans who put them on top.<\/p>\n Where would metal music be today had all the other bands turned on their heritage like your band did?<\/p>\n Guess what? There would be no more metal music! “Moth Into Flame”<\/p>\n By James Hetfield<\/p>\n Blacked out THE METAL DEN: Seems eerily strange wording to start a song this way when you ultimately performed the song with the queen of pop. Was this ‘somewhat’ about Amy or is it actually written for Gaga? Tell the truth<\/em>.<\/p>\n The singer once admitted to US radio station Z100 that only a handful of years ago she was struggling to get to a place where she doesn\u2019t have to use drugs to be creative. Cocaine and weed being her main demons. \u201cI do put that pressure on myself; I have to be high to be creative. I need that, that\u2019s an error in my life that happened for over 10 years\u2026 Can I be brilliant without it? I know that I can be and I have to be because I want to live, and I want my fans to want to live.\u201d<\/p>\n So was the collaboration all planned from the start? Was there more going on between these two camps that we don’t know about?<\/p>\n
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\nHetfield himself went on the record about the lyrics for this tune, stating it was written about the tragic life of one of the biggest pop stars ever, the late Amy Winehouse.<\/p>\n
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\n“Like a moth into flame… all of the fame could be gone with the snap of a finger.” – Anonymous<\/em>
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