Written By - Randall 

I love Jonny Craig’s music.  

His voice has carried me through so many difficult times that I can’t even count them all. When it gets rough I put any one of his brilliant songs on a loop and I just let every sound and nuance take me away until I can’t feel the pain, the sadness, or the anger anymore

I’m sure many of you have seen this picture of Jonny by now (seen below) and there are any number of emotions you must be feeling. Personally I was bother saddened and outraged.  Let’s be real, most of the artists we know and love use drugs and put down more booze than any of us can dream.

But this is different, after the macbooks, the rehab, and the arrests, this is absolutely depressing for anyone who loves this man’s music like I do.

What can I possibly say about something like this? First of all I don’t judge him for this, the facts are that drugs are a staple of the rich and famous and while we don’t want to admit it that’s just the way it is. While I don’t condone it, I do understand it.  

The part that bothers me is seeing him like this, it’s like catching your big brother in pool of his own vomit after coming home from a late night bender, you still love him but you’re absolutely rattled to the core. 

Secondly I understand - hell we all understand - that Jonny needs help and simple rebab isn’t going to help him. You can’t use conventional methods to cure someone who has spent his whole life cutting corners and placing blame.

But publicly defaming someone is never the way to go about it. Imagine if someone illuminated every miserable thing you’ve ever done, imagine if they put it out there and left you to rot in the sun all in the name of trying to help you.  It doesn’t make sense, it’s a fool’s game pure and simple. 

Lastly and most of all as a fan I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do now. If the rumors are true and he’s actually been cut by Rise Records and is no longer with Dance Gavin Dance that doesn’t phase me much, we’ve seen this before and lord knows he’ll get signed by someone. But I don’t know what to do, every time I listen to his music now I see him high on some crap or something else.  

I don’t want Jonny to die.  

He doesn’t care about me, fine; I don’t need him to love me as I love his music.  But to live in a world where there’s not some of his amazing music out on the horizon, how do I even process that?  Make fun of me as you will but that’s the truth, I want him to get better, I want him to make music that will rock this world, I want Jonny Craig to be recognized for what he is, the best singer in music today. 

But times like this I can’t see it happening. I can’t find that belief in the best intentions of the human spirit.  I just want him to get clean so I can fall in love with more of his music.  

I was once willing to admit you’re perfect, now the words they stutter off my lips. I was once willing to admit…

Call me selfish but I that’s how I feel.