“N’t Wanna Be Me” is a song by American gothic metal band Type O Negative. The song is the second track on the band’s sixth studio album, Life Is Killing Me (2003), and was released as a promotional single the same year. “I Don’t Wanna Be Me” is widely regarded a punk rock song, unlike the band’s previous gothic and doom metal tunes.
The song has been categorized in various genres, but primarily as punk rock.Kerrang! described the song as “a highly-energized, sarcastic paean to self-hatred, waving a middle finger in their own faces as much as anyone else’s” with an influence of “old school catchy punk rock At moments, it even resembles the beautiful heads down thrash attack of Peter’s previous band, the controversial “Carnivore. Loudwire describes the song as “goth-punk-power-pop.
Guitarist Kenny Hickey thinks frontman Peter Steele’s words for the song were autobiographical, citing Peter’s poor health at the time. He was tired of his addictions and tired of life, which inspired the title, I Don’t Wanna Be Me. He didn’t want to be Pete anymore. Hickey also stated that the song, which is unusually simple and fast for the band, was created in response to his irritation with Steele’s typical complicated, multi-part arrangements.
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