It Goes On with
Never Loved
Interview by Ken Morton - Photo by Kayla Surico
name. It seemed like it kind of rolled off our tongue.
Alternative rock band Never Loved - featuring Cameron Knopp (vocals, guitar), Jay Gayoso (bass) and Shane O’Brien (guitar) - has just released their debut full-length album, Over It, via Equal Vision Records. Produced by multi-platinum producer Matt Squire and featuring co-writes by All-American Rejects’ Nick Wheeler, Over It is sure to garner Never Loved a good amount of fans all across the globe. A tour with Armor For Sleep was placed on hold due to the pandemic, but new dates have now been announced, including several in Southern California. Highwire Daze recently caught up with front man Cameron Knopp to find out more about this amazing band on the rise...
Let talk about On And On It Goes and what was the inspiration behind that song. We wrote that one with Nick Wheeler of All American Rejects. That was one of the later songs we did for the album before going into the studio. But that one was just about the ups and downs that you face in a relationship sometimes and talking about not seeing eye to eye with someone. It’s from life experience and past relationships.
Is there any overall story or concept behind the album title Over It? When you listen to the record, there’s not one main theme – but a common theme on the record is being Over It – facing adversity in different scenarios and pushing through. So, we felt that that was a nice way to sum it up. And the first track on the record was Over It and I remember thinking about an album name. We listened to the record – I was just listening through and trying to figure out what would be a good name. I looked down and Over It repeated back on and I thought “That rings nice.” I thought about it and brought it up to everyone else – and everyone was super onboard with that 54
What is it like doing a co-wrote with Nick Wheeler of All American Rejects? He’s like a legend to a lot of people. I know! It’s crazy! It’s one of those things where we had a lot of material written for the album before going into the studio – we actually had a problem with what songs do we narrow down – and then from there narrow those down. But before we went into the studio, our management brought up the idea of working with co-writing people and I thought “Hell yeah!” It would be a great way to mix up the record a bit and write with someone else with a different perspective. And also, when you write with people like Nick, you learn a lot too as a writer – producing and all that stuff. Writing with Nick was amazing. It was like a situation where we did one session together – it went really well and we said “cool, let’s write some more songs for the record together.” I really like how we work. Which is kind of crazy, but he has a really June/July 2021
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