KennyHoopla and Travis Barker Fight Self-"Sabotage//" in Intense New Single
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Alternative rising star KennyHoopla is following up 2021's Travis Barker-produced SURVIVOR'S GUILT: THE MIXTAPE// with another Barker-produced effort, the Blink And You'll Miss It EP. Ahead of the project's release next month, he's shared an electrifying new single called "SABOTAGE//," which explores how self-awareness can be a fucking thorn in your side.
The infectious single is chock-full of drum fills and sharp, crunchy guitar riffs. The energetic, two-minute banger opens with Kenny "coming to terms with death and the stages of grief," admitting, "In the town that I'm from, you're lucky to make it this far." The energy between him and Barker is palpable, most prominently in the Blink-182 drummer's intricate fills and Kenny's vocals howling gut-punching lines like, "Always find another way to ruin things / Through suffering and sabotage / As if this life was ever in your odds / It takes a lie to fall apart," bouncing off each other with reckless abandon.
"'Sabotage' is about becoming so self-aware as a person you end up being restricted by invisible boundaries and blurred lines," shares Kenny in a statement. "Becoming a toxic mixture of everyone's one viewpoint swirled inside of your head until everything is right and wrong at the same time, and you end up paralyzed, not being an actual progression for anyone at all, burning everything you touch. Stretching a smile for other people's happiness is never worth the sadness in the end. There is a great pain that comes with trying to be a good or fair person in this current world, an even greater ego death that you most likely never even got a chance to build, but we stay silent and pure as we can for the possibility of 'peace' one day, the pictures never do justice."
The 25-year-old is currently on the road providing main support at Blink-182's North American reunion shows with Tom DeLonge. This summer, he'll also join Limp Bizkit at their upcoming performance in London on August 13 before appearing at the Reading and Leeds festivals later that month.
Listen to "SABOTAGE//" below:
