I spoke to Within Temptation singer, Sharon Den Adel shortly before the band played their excellent gig at Birmingham Academy. Your latest album, Hydra was released in February and has proved very successful. One song that has divided opinion though is "And we run" due to it's inclusion of rapper Xzibit. Did you expect this sortI spoke to Within Temptation singer, Sharon Den Adel shortly before the band played their excellent gig at Birmingham Academy. Your latest album, Hydra was released in February and has proved very successful. One song that has divided opinion though is "And we run" due to it's inclusion of rapper Xzibit. Did you expect this sort of reaction? People knew he was going to be on the album before it came out, and we had so many people having an extreme reaction even before they heard it which is a pity. In some ways it's good because you then have a discussion with some people saying "I'll judge it when I hear it and not before", and I thought that was the wisest approach, because until you hear it you don't know how it will be. Other people were "Oh my god, I'm going to hate this album". We liked it and we stand by it. We won't change it and we put it on the album and would never take it off the album because it's one of the special ones When you announced Howard Jones would be appearing on the album there were some people assuming it was [...]
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