Electric Mob is an avowedly militant band that isn't afraid to address the current political context in their compositions – and if that keeps prejudiced people away from their music, all the better.
On their second studio album, 2 Make U Cry & Dance , Electric Mob criticized Jair Bolsonaro in the song "Saddest Funk Ever" and revealed they weren't afraid of losing fans because of it.
“Electric Mob isn’t a militant band and doesn’t address the political context much in its music, but all the members have their own stance, and we say what we want to say when we feel we should. Regarding losing people along the way because of this, if it’s going to lead to prejudiced, sexist, homophobic, racist, and hateful fans, we’ll stop. Now, anyone who wants to join in with love and have fun at the party is welcome to come along,” declared vocalist Renan Zonta in an interview with Headbangers News .
In a track-by-track analysis published exclusively on Wikimetal , the band explained in more detail the song that inspired the title. “The idea came about at the beginning of the songwriting process, right at the height of the pandemic, with a lot of bad things happening and a government that increasingly buried any hope, trampled on minorities, and made fun of the greatest misfortune of our generation. We needed to say something, but how to address so much devastation? Put all the anger and despair into the lyrics of a danceable song,” they said.
The band from Curitiba gained international recognition with their powerful hard rock sound right from their debut album, Discharge (2020) . Electric Mob has already been played on radio stations in Europe and the United States, achieved a position on Billboard , and reached impressive numbers on streaming platforms.
The album 2 Make U Cry & Dance was released by the Italian label Frontiers Music. Besides Zonta, the quartet consists of Ben Hur Auwarter (guitar), Yuir Elero (bass), and André Leister (drums).
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