HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Mötley Crüe is bashing the music channel that helped launch their career, calling MTV "unhip" after the network failed to deliver on a long-promised biopic of the rock band's career.
"We're trying to get them (MTV) out of the way to make this movie that should have been made a long time ago," the band's bassist/lyricist Nikki Sixx tells Reuters.
"MTV has become bogged down in its own way. It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip. We signed with them because we believed they were right, but they haven't come to the table," he added. "We need to find the right partner. They are not the right partner."
The band announced in 2006 that they had reached a deal with MTV Films/Paramount to start producing a biopic based on their best-selling autobiography "The Dirt," which was co-written with Neil Strauss. But Sixx says nothing has ever transpired.
While their biopic may have stalled, Mötley Crüe, which also includes singer Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars and drummer Tommy Lee, is about to release a brand new album. The band, which first arrived on the heavy metal scene in the early '80s, will release "Saints of Los Angeles" next Tuesday, before embarking on their Crue Fest concert tour in July.
"It's a fun album with some dark moments. It covers a lot of emotions of four human beings and their life as a band," Sixx said of the first new material from the band's original members in more than a decade.
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