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Press - 2004
Trapt Feel The 'Echo' Of An Ex
Trapt's upcoming "Echo"
video stars singer Chris Brown's current girlfriend, Michelle Trachtenberg
of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," but the story portrayed is based on
experiences with his ex of four years.
"It starts off with a guy who is with a girl and he thinks she's cool, but
he's not really into her so much 'cause he's always thinking about the
girl who he really wants," Brown explained at KROQ-FM's recent Almost
Acoustic Christmas. "He always sees the one he really wants in his
imagination and he wishes that she was there. So when he sees her he goes
to touch her and she's not really there."
The girl he really wants is his ex, and in the video, shot at the end of
December by Meiert Avis (U2, Bruce Springsteen), Brown goes to a party
with his new girlfriend, only to recall a similar date from a few years
ago. He eventually sees his former lover at the party, but she too is with
someone else.
"She's trying to do the same thing you're doing when you're going out with
some girl, to get over it and to move on," Brown continued. "All they
really want to do is just go away and forget about it, just close their
eyes and go, but the thing is, the reality is stuck in your head and
that's what's keeping them from doing it."
Trapt wrote the music for "Echo" just before entering the studio to record
their self-titled debut, which features one of the most-played singles of
2003, "Headstrong". Brown penned the lyrics, including the chorus, "I need
to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride ... Until this echo, echo,
echo, echo can subside," soon after, in the wake of a fight with his ex.
The couple were struggling to rekindle their relationship, but since they
were neighbors, they had watched each other try to move on with others.
"We were in Santa Barbara in college, we had beers everywhere and
debauchery and all that, and I saw that and you get jealous and do all
that kind of stuff," Brown said. "It's just hard, it's like you can either
just forget about it and move on if you want to keep the second one going
or you have to call it quits because you can't keep badgering someone
about the past. So, that's what the song's about, just being torn between
being able to let everything go and wanting to be able to do that, but at
the same time just kinda having a hard time doing it and having a
stalemate there."
The "Echo" video, the follow-up to "Still Frame", will be released in late
January. Afterward, Trapt are eyeing "Made of Glass" or "Stories" as a
possible fourth single.
"There's plans for maybe a fifth, we're just ... playing it by ear," Brown
said. "We're definitely not going to take too long to make a second
record. That's the one thing that we promised our fans, that we're going
to continue to make music and keep it going and keep touring."
Trapt wrote some new material during a couple of weeks off in December and
are hoping to have several dozen more tracks completed before entering the
studio.
"We definitely have a direction," Brown said. "The second album is kinda
about just going out there and trying to find who you are, trying to find
what you really want out of life."
The band has not yet thought about producers but hopes to record sometime
in 2004. Touring, however, is still the priority. Brown and cohorts will
play some Canadian shows with Nickelback in January, followed by a
headlining trek in the spring.
—Corey Moss
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