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Interview with Mika Tauriainen from Entwine, by Margarita Khartanovich.

We spoke to Mika Tauriainen from Entwine about the future of music industry, the band’s burnt down bus, HIM, getting drunk on stage and what makes a drummer sing.

"Nowadays there is nothing that new in music: all that matters is what kind of an illusion a singer or a band creates."
"Let’s take Enrique Iglesias – horrible singer but sells millions of CDs. It’s sad but it doesn’t matter anymore, how you sing or how you play. Music is all about the illusions now. We are all the same motherfuckers after all. For example, Marilyn Manson: when he is on a holiday he wears sweatpants and slippers and eats hamburgers. It’s just an illusion that people think he is a mystic guy."

"How do people think we have a possibility to live on and tour with the situation like this?"
"The sales of CDs have come down by 40-50 % in the last 4-5 years. People don’t buy them, they download from the Internet. In 10 years, today’s kids will ask what the fuck a CD is. They are very close to it now: when children in the 1st grade see CD players they ask what age you are from – “I have an mp3 player. I’ve downloaded my 5 billion songs which I can listen to and you have only one CD with 5-7 songs on it?!” People from Mexico or Russia or wherever write to us asking why we don’t come to their countries… Could you please buy, probably, 1000 CDs with your 1000 best friends so that we could come? People don’t understand that downloading equals stealing. Imagine you go to the supermarket and just take something for the price of 20 euro pretending it is OK."

"I am making albums to get shows."
"I’m not making shows to sell albums."

"The big stars have to increase the number of live shows in order to survive."
"Pink has been to Finland 3 times in the last year. And then people think ‘ok, she is doing so many shows that I’m not interested anymore’. The circle closes. It’s getting smaller and tighter all the time. The only thing that we need to figure out is how to control the Internet, how to control people who are stealing our songs. It has to start from their minds. I’m not against the Internet – I use it every day. I don’t download music but I use Spotify. It’s boss has deals with record companies so they get more and we, musicians, get less. It was Lady GaGa who had 1 million plays on Spotify. And she got nothing from that, only the record companies did. So who is stealing from whom?"

"HIM opened up the world for Finnish music – people got interested in Finland."
"Ville Valo has done a lot of good work. I’m not into HIM’s music very much; I haven’t listened to it for many-many years but what they have done for the Finnish music industry is priceless."

"Of course, it’s luck, talent and passion that bring you success in music."
"The whole music industry is a bit weird nowadays so it’s difficult to say what makes a good band. As first we talk about money and then comes the music. It’s only business. If you think about labels nowadays they are doing ‘single’ deals. They produce one single and if it sells well, maybe, they will make a whole album. People are not buying albums nowadays – they pick up the song that they like, go on the internet and download it. The meaning of the album is now not quite clear."

"I had a constant problem with the voice for a long time – we had even to cancel a few gigs because of it."
"It took me 8 months actually to recover. First I went to check my vocal cords at the hospital, and the doctors couldn’t find anything. Then I went to an alternative doctor, a biologist. She was checking the vocal cords with some machine and found worms, very small ones. She gave me some treatment, some natural stuff, ethereal oils and herbs. In 8 weeks I was much better and started to sing again and then it was gone. Lots of my friends were like ‘yeah, this alternative shit! Maybe it was all in your head – psychosomatic’. If you get the treatment that helps you nothing else matters!"

"Recording sessions are always a great pressure to me because when I produce the songs, I want to achieve the perfection.
"It should be done with passion! That’s the only way to get things done. It’s easier to produce some other band. If it’s your band you cannot get out of it. It’s very hard to see things objectively. When I produce some other band, I get ideas immediately. You don’t have anything in it. It’s easier to listen. But if it’s your song, it will suck your head off."

"We’ve started a band with my cousins in Sweden called Dead Hollywood."
"We will release a couple of songs next year. It’s so much easier nowadays with technologies. As they are in Sweden and I’m in Finland and I can just send them stuff being far away. I guess the music will sound very American. But I don’t know HOW exactly. But it’s going to be great! You never know what is going to hit people."

"Music doesn’t have any borders."
"We should open our borders and everybody should live where they want to live and find their place."

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