In a recent interview, Rome Ramirez said that the trio had made a few trips to Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, Texas before “Wicked Heart” came along earlier this year, without much success. “It was my birthday in June, and me and my wife were out to dinner and got into this huge argument,” recalls Ramirez, who co-wrote the song with Blessings co-producer Andrew Goldstein. “We went into the studio after that and I came up with ‘Wicked Heart’ and that was the song that got everybody really excited. The guys in the band were really stoked. And when you get something special, everybody gets excited; management, label, PDs, everybody gets excited when you have a special song.
After that we were album to put together the album really quickly. The music just started to flow from there. It was just the right spark to bring us back to the music.” Ramirez and his wife are “all good,” by the way, and the proud parents of a son, who’s almost two years old.
The “Wicked Heart” video, meanwhile, depicts Ramirez in the midst of a police stop, handcuffed and singing as officers inspect his car trunk and discover illegal narcotics. “We wanted to keep the Sublime style but how a relationship can turn volatile real quick,” Ramirez explains. “Nothing says that like the cops searching for narcotics.
“We’ve kind of whittled out all of the doubting naysayers so to speak, so now it’s like ‘OK, you know we exist as a band. You’ve either seen us and like us, or you don’t,'” Ramirez says. “The band is better than ever, as tight as we’ve ever been. We’ve come into our own entity, but obviously existing with such a rich legacy. It’s such an interesting place to be 10 years later, but it feels really good.”
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