Date Night

I wanted to make a record that reflected the heaviness of the riffs, the authenticity of the point of view, um, and in, on each song and in each venue, trying to create a little bit of that world that we'd like to one day see.

I did wanna ask you about the story behind the song "Date Night," which is based-

Sure, sure

... on a true story.

Yeah.

Um, well, I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists, anti-fascist songs for anti-fascists.

In the case of "Date Night," anti-Nazi songs for anti-Nazis.

"Date Night" is a true story.

Uh, it came out on the 25th of September.

Uh, and, uh, he pr- previewed a song, uh, called Date Night, which recounts the true story of three young Dutch girls who served as spies, saboteurs, and assassins against the Nazis in World War II.

That's cool.

The young women acted as underground assassins, selecting Nazi officers, luring them into the woods, and killing them.

He said, uh, this is a quote from Morello, "I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists.

I make anti-fascist songs for anti-fascists, and I make anti-Nazi songs for anti-Nazis.

Date Night is really a 'which side are you on' song."

Mm.

So that's going to be fine.

There is a post on your Facebook page about Date Night explaining what the song is about, and the commentary is tagged with the line, and you can dance to it.

And, Tom, that is kind of the magic trick with any of this stuff, it seems like, is saying what you want to say but delivering it in a way that someone's going to want to hear it.

Or perhaps even more than that, it's going to find someone's ears, draw them in, engage them on multiple levels, including eventually, hopefully, the story that's being told.

I mean, I make anti-racist songs for anti-racist.

I make anti-fascist songs for anti-fascist.

And in Date Night, I've made an anti-Nazi song

for anti-Nazis.