UPDATE: Thursday, March 3 (9:40 a.m. ET) – Leave it to Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters to address rumours of the band’s breakup in the most outrageous, hilarious way possible.
In an “official band announcement”; released on YouTube, front man Dave Grohl, wearing Hollywood-style sunglasses, is chatting with producer Butch Vig about the band’s future, with Vig urging him to ditch the rest of the band and go solo.
Cut to footage of Grohl in the studio, accompanied by a synthesizer, working on songs that can charitably be described as ridiculously lame.
We then see the rest of the Foo Fighters meeting, determing they need to find a new singer. The band members begin throwing out potential names ranging from Sammy Hagar to Drake to Prince to Phil Collins (“the original drummer turned singer!”;) and even an outside-of-the box idea: “Bieber!”;
We then see the band performing an acoustic version of “Everlong”; with a very surprising choice for front man (who’ll be familiar to anyone who ever watched MTV’s Newlyweds).
The video ends with the following message: “For the millionth time, we’re not breaking up. And nobody’s going f***ing solo!”; Watch:
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After rumours began spreading that Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl was planning to take a break from the band in order to focus on solo projects, a rep for the band called the reports “utterly ridiculous.”;
However, it appears there’s fire behind that particular puff of smoke, with Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins confirming the band will be taking a hiatus — or, as he jokingly calls it, “ihateus.”;
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Artisan News shared a video that’s now making the rounds, in which Hawkins breaks the news.
“We’re on ihateus right now, we’re on an indefinite ihateus,” Hawkins explains in the video. Hawkins is quick to point out that the decision “was not because we don’t love each other, or don’t want to make music together … We did so much in the last five or six years — we as a band could go into the studio tomorrow and have just as much fun as we ever had, but I think the world needs a break from us for a little while.”
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This isn’t the first time that Foo Fighters have taken a break. Back in 2008, the band stopped touring for three years, and reunited in 2011 to deliver what some regard to be the band’s greatest album to date, “Wasting Light.”;
