Leigh Kakaty Explains Pop Evil’s Dedication To Rock

Pop Evil’s Leigh Kakaty shared his opinion about rock music in an interview regarding the band’s new album, Skeletons, with Classic Rock. He said:

“We started this journey when rock music was on a decline. We were pushing ourselves up a steep hill when the musical landscape had shifted to hip-hop, pop, and country and kinda abandoned us rockers. I can sing pop until the cows come home, and a lot of people said to us why don’t you just switch genres. And we had the opportunities.”

According to Pop Evil frontman, rock music was abandoned by people, so, Kakaty explained why he never gave up on his music:

“But it was like, I’m a rock guy, man. I grew up blue-collar in Michigan. I really feel indebted to this genre. I don’t care about the success. “

It seems like Leigh Kakaty has internalized the rock culture, and switching genres is not on the table for him. Pop Evil showed its dedication to rock music during the pandemic while COVID restrictions were going on; most of the members needed regular jobs to keep food on the table since they couldn’t go on tours. Kakaty explained in a previous talk with The Liquid Conversations podcast:

“The first few months of COVID, we were really hoping that, ‘Okay, we’ll be back by spring.’ ‘We’ll be back by summer.’ So right around summertime, we were finally, like, ‘Okay, this is gonna be a whole year off.’ And then once you got [over] the terror and the shock that we’re not gonna make any money… Our touring monthly keeps the lights on, so the fact that we weren’t gonna tour was devastating. And for our band, the other band members had to get jobs. There was no writing and creativity; they had to make money to live. So we weren’t able to write.”

You can read the full interview here.