Look out Werewolves of London. Move over Monster Mash. There is a new Halloween anthem that will hit the airwaves this Halloween, a little song called “No Silver Bullet (The Werewolf Song)”. It’s catchy. It’s funny. It’s oh so spooky, with theremin and all!
We sat down with Dylan to get the skinny on the hit new song.
Reality Register: Dylan, we are very excited to sit down with you. We’ve listened to this song on repeat for about a week now.
Dylan Musgrave: Hey thanks, I really appreciate that. I was actually checking out your site as I was getting ready to speak with you, pretty good stuff!
RR: Thank you, we try, occasionally anyway. Now, this song, where’d it come from? Why are you singing about werewolves?
Dylan: Well, this was a song I had written a long time ago and just kinda sat on it. It was always a funny idea to me, some dirtbag guy abandoning his girlfriend in the woods or something with no real evidence that there is even such thing as werewolves. That this complete coward is trying to explain to both the girlfriend and the audience how his actions make sense at all just made me laugh. Anyway, so years go by and I’m like, you know what, maybe it’s time to record that thing.
RR: It’s a smart move I’d say, there aren’t a ton of Halloween songs out there when you think about how many Christmas songs there are.
Dylan: Oh absolutely, and yeah, I was thinking of the overabundance of Christmas songs out there and realized there may be a need for another Halloween song to be played to no end come October. I can just picture myself in the grocery store and hearing it come on. I would flip my lid.
RR: It wouldn’t hurt to get royalties like that too, I’ve heard Mariah Carey makes like 68 million dollars per year just from the royalties that annoying Christmas song makes.
Dylan: Oh man, that would be the dream obviously, but I’d just be pumped to hear it come up on the radio some day. I have zero ties to the music industry, so if that somehow happened, it would be amazing. Of course, if I end up being the Mariah Carey of Halloween, I’ll take it, sure.
RR: It’s got a good chance I think, so long as you can get the word out there. The theremin sets the tone right off the bat and the whole song is really catchy.
Dylan: That theremin is key to that song. A guy by the name of Hank “Willy Nilly” Bebo does the theremin on that track, dude is seriously talented in so many wonderfully weird ways, on another track he wails on an old timey fife, it’s great! But yeah, I was really happy with the way it turned out, I just hope everyone likes it as much as I did.
RR: Now you have a full album coming out as well?
Dylan: Yes, the album is called “As Real As It Gets…”, some other songs on there that I thought were funny, a couple of them I was trying to be insightful or poetic, but we’ll see how effective those ones are. I may just need to find my lane in stay in it when all is said and done, I don’t know.
RR: Oh there’s other funny songs on there?
Dylan: Well, what I hope are funny anyway (laughs). The song that inspired the title of the album, As Real As It Gets…, is also about some dirtbag guy, this time writing a love song to his girlfriend who he compliments as being hotter than 99% of women on Earth, but then the rest of the song is him explaining that mathematically, that still leaves like 40 million women better looking than her and how he hopes he never meets one of them. You know, because he’s so hopelessly in love I guess. Something about complete asshole guys trying to defend their own positions just tickles me, you know? Maybe I have some unresolved issues, we’ll see.
RR: What are your opinions on music made with the assistance of artificial intelligence?
Dylan: Like, I get that not everyone can sing, so whatever I guess, but artists like that will someday be exposed for the frauds they are.
RR: That sounds great Dylan, when can we expect the full album to be released?
Dylan: Well there’s four tracks out in the wild from it right now, you can find them on Spotify, Youtube, Amazon and Apple music, all that sort of stuff. The remaining eight tracks will be released little by little over the next month or two, so be on the lookout I guess.
RR: Great, thanks for sitting down with us Dylan, we look forward to hearing more from you.
Dylan: Yeah man, thanks for having me, this was fun.
Check out the four released tracks on Dylan’s spotify page here, or Youtube page here.
-The Ghost of Andrew Crowe
