Mötley Crüe Announces ‘Cancelled’ Three-Song EP
Did you hear? Mötley Crüe is releasing the 3-song “Cancelled” EP on October 4. One of the three songs is a cover of the Beastie Boys‘ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)”. We’ve already heard “Dogs Of War”, and the other is “Cancelled”. All three songs were recorded in April 2023 with longtime producer Bob Rock.
The band released a statement, “It was really great getting in the studio and working on some tracks together. What started out as a couple demo ideas turned into this EP produced by Bob Rock. We look forward to getting back into the studio again soon and writing more new music, as well.”
Mötley debuted “Fight For Your Right” live at a secret 2023 club show at The Underworld in London, U.K.
“Cancelled” EP track listing:
01. Cancelled (Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, John Lowery)
02. Dogs Of War (Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, John Lowery)
03. Fight For Your Right (Adam Horovitz, Rick Rubin, Adam Yauch)
Crüe drummer Tommy Lee told Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast last year that they wrote “Cancelled” because they were surprised it never happened to them.
“There was this article that was like, ‘How did Mötley Crüe ever not get cancelled? And we were like, ‘Fuck, we’ve gotta write a song about that because we didn’t ever get it.’ We snuck in under the whatever threshold, wherever that was, where we got away with fucking murder.”
The “Cancelled” EP will be released through their new deal with Nashville’s Big Machine Records.
Mötley Crüe’s last studio album was 2008’s “Saints Of Los Angeles”.
John 5 joined the band in the fall of ’22 to replace co-founding guitarist Mick Mars. Mars announced he was retiring from touring in October ’22 because of health issues.
What do you think of the Crüe’s cover of Beastie Boys? I’m seeing mixed responses online.
