Blue October lead singer Justin Furstenfeld on the 2000's Rock Hit Hate Me | Professor of Rock

Every once in a while a band can come out of nowhere and release a song that speaks to an entire generation. The deepest reaches of the soul. In 2006 a band from Texas put out a deeply personal song that went to #2 on the the charts. Hate Me by the rock band Blue October from their multiplatinum album Foiled. Justin Furstenfeld, the lead singer of the band tells the story with a cameo appearance from songwriting team Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
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Every once in a while a band can come out of nowhere and release a song that speaks to an entire generation. The deepest reaches of the soul. In 2006 a band from Texas put out a deeply personal song that went to #2 on the the charts. Up next a can’t miss interview with the Lead singer of rock band Blue October about this song.

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IN 2006 Blue October released their fourth studio album. Foiled. A few years earlier the band started to breakthrough with the song, Calling you from their album Consent to Treatment. , It peaked at #35 on Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks and had a resurgence a short time after that as it was part of the American Wedding Soundtrack.

Blue October had grown their audience from the ground floor since forming in Texas in 1995. As they developed as a band, they were later signed by Universal records in 1999. Much like how the music of Joy Division, the Cure and the Smiths would speak to the downtrodden misfits and outcasts of the world.

Blue October’s music played a similar role for those coming of age in the rock 2000s. The band gave hope to the hopeless, as lead singer Justin Furstenfeld wrote directly from his pain, no holds barred, no filter. This struck a chord on a major scale with the first single from Foiled, titled Hate Me.

The song would break through on the american charts going to #2 on the alternative airplay charts, kept out of #1 by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Dani California. It also crossed over to the pop charts hitting #31 on the hot 100. I also crossed over the mainstream Rock charts at #21 and the adult top 40 at #13.

The song was further enriched by a brutally honest music video directed by Kevin Kerslake who’s directed music videos by everyone from Prince to the Rolling Stones, REM, Depeche Mode, Nirvana , The Smashing pumpkins and so many more. His recent documentary on Joan Jett is well worth seeing. Kerslake tapped into a tragic realism that cut to the bone.

Which matched Justin’s heart renching music and lyrics to create a mesmerizing portrayal of sound and vision. The music of Blue October is well worth a listen especially, Any Man IN America that features a song that has seen me through many a dark nights The Feel Again Stay, also check out Sway and Home.