SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Says He Takes 'Popular Music' To Task In His 'You're Making Me Hate You' Book

May 23, 2015

"You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look At The Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left", the new book from SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor, will be released on July 7 via Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

Taylor will promote the book with a combination of bookstore events and a solo tour which will be one-of-a-kind shows featuring readings from the book, acoustic performance, and audience discussion.

Asked if being in a band provided a lot of material for "You're Making Me Hate You", Taylor told U.K.'s Kerrang! magazine: "Yeah, I take a lot of 'popular music' to task, and people who are hailed as geniuses but really didn't earn it. Some of the things that come out of these people's mouths are just fucking unbelievable. I've got a couple of friends who are in this band, but FALL OUT BOY saying they're going to 'save rock 'n' roll'… Are you fucking kidding me? You? With the shit that I've heard for the last two albums, that's you saving fucking rock 'n' roll? No, I don't think so. But whether it's FALL OUT BOY saying they're saving rock 'n' roll or Gene Simmons saying rock 'n' roll is already dead, I'm standing here [with] sold-out shows, a No. 1 album around the world and I'm going, 'Really? When did this happen?'"

He continued: "Rock ebbds and flows. It always has. As shiny and new as these people like to think pop music is, it's the same six people who write every fucking song for some of these talentless fuckholes and I'm not worried about anything. These people have been trying to kill us for 30 years and it keeps not happening."

Official book description: "In the tradition of the late great George Carlin, New York Times bestselling author and lead singer of SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR Corey Taylor sounds off in hilarious fashion about the many vagaries of modern life that piss him off.

"Whether it's people's rude behavior in restaurants and malls, the many indignities of air travel, eye-searingly terrible fashion choices, dangerously clueless drivers, and — most of all — the sorry state of much modern music, Taylor's humor and insight cover civil society's seeming decline — sparing no one along the way, least of all himself.

"Holding nothing back and delivered in Taylor's inimitable voice, 'You're Making Me Hate You' is a cathartic critique of the strange world in which we find ourselves."

During an appearance on the Nerdist podcast, Taylor stated about "You're Making Me Hate You": "It's fucking brutal. It's just me basically trashing everyone."

Taylor said that his original title — which the publisher refused to allow him to use — was "You're Making Me Hate You (Or How Justin Bieber Sucked A Million Dicks To Make His Money)".

The "You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look At The Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left" book cover can be seen below.

Taylor's last book, "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Heaven", was published in the summer of 2013 and landed at No. 23 on the New York Times "Hardcover Non-Fiction" best sellers list.

His first book, 2011's "Seven Deadly Sins: Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good", also made the list at No. 26.

The singer told The Pulse Of Radio in 2013 that his third book would be a collection of columns he'd written over the past decade for U.K. magazine Rock Sound. It is not clear whether this is that book. Taylor also said he plans to write a novel.

Taylor is currently on the road with SLIPKNOT, who are touring in support of the band's latest album, ".5: The Gray Chapter".

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