{"id":6319,"date":"2024-01-29T19:52:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2024-01-29T19:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:52:35","slug":"watch-disturbed-performs-dont-tell-me-live-with-plushs-moriah-formica-in-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=6319","title":{"rendered":"Watch: DISTURBED Performs &#8216;Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8217; Live With PLUSH&#8217;s MORIAH FORMICA In Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DISTURBED-Performs-Dont-Tell-Me-Live-With-PLUSHs-MORIAH-FORMICA-In-Oklahoma-City-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DISTURBED-Performs-Dont-Tell-Me-Live-With-PLUSHs-MORIAH-FORMICA-In-Oklahoma-City-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DISTURBED-Performs-Dont-Tell-Me-Live-With-PLUSHs-MORIAH-FORMICA-In-Oklahoma-City-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DISTURBED-Performs-Dont-Tell-Me-Live-With-PLUSHs-MORIAH-FORMICA-In-Oklahoma-City-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DISTURBED-Performs-Dont-Tell-Me-Live-With-PLUSHs-MORIAH-FORMICA-In-Oklahoma-City.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video of&nbsp;<strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>&nbsp;performing the&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Divisive&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;album track&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;<\/strong>, featuring a guest appearance by&nbsp;<strong>Moriah Formica<\/strong>&nbsp;of the opening band&nbsp;<strong>PLUSH<\/strong>, on January 27 at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma can be seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>\u00a0kicked off the 2024 leg of its\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Take Back Your Life&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0tour on January 19 at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month,\u00a0<strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>\u00a0released the\u00a0<strong>Matt Mahurin<\/strong>-directed music video for\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;<\/strong>. The song, an epic emotionally charged duet with\u00a0<strong>HEART<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Ann Wilson<\/strong>, marked the first time the band had included a guest feature on an LP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Disturbed (ft. Moriah Formica) - Don&#039;t Tell Me (Live in Oklahoma City 2024)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3kWWCC5esnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2017,&nbsp;<strong>Formica<\/strong>&nbsp;was a contender on season 13 of&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;The Voice&#8221;<\/strong>. Her blind audition performance of&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Crazy On You&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>HEART<\/strong>&nbsp;got the attention of all four judges, ultimately earning her a coveted spot on Team Miley Cyrus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I chose to play&nbsp;<strong>HEART<\/strong>&nbsp;because it is classic rock,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Formica<\/strong>&nbsp;said at the time. &#8220;One of the reasons why I decided to go on to&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;The Voice&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;is because of the lack of true rock singers.&nbsp;<strong>Ann Wilson<\/strong>&nbsp;is one of my favorite vocalists.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding how the collaboration with\u00a0<strong>Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0came about,\u00a0<strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>\u00a0drummer\u00a0<strong>Mike Wengren<\/strong>\u00a0told\u00a0<strong>Terrie Carr<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>WDHA-FM 105.5 FM<\/strong>: &#8220;That was always supposed to be the &#8216;power ballad,&#8217; per se. And as we were tracking it in the studio,\u00a0<strong>David<\/strong>\u00a0[<strong>Draiman<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>\u00a0singer] just threw out the idea, &#8216;Hey, let&#8217;s do a duet on this song.&#8217; We&#8217;ve tossed around the idea before, but there wasn&#8217;t ever either the right material or the right time. So in this particular case, we kind of said, &#8216;Well, who you&#8217;ve got in mind?&#8217; And he didn&#8217;t even have a list; he just had one person, and that was\u00a0<strong>Ann<\/strong>. It was a no-brainer. &#8216;Hey, let&#8217;s hit up\u00a0<strong>Ann<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s see if she&#8217;d be into it.&#8217; And she was on board right away; we didn&#8217;t have to convince her.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mike<\/strong>&nbsp;continued: &#8220;[<strong>David<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Ann<\/strong>] sort of struck up a bit of a friendship, a little bit of a rapport. When [<strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>&nbsp;cover version of]&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;The Sound Of Silence&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;came out years back and had its success, she was one of many artists and celebrities that took it up themselves to go on&nbsp;<strong>Twitter<\/strong>&nbsp;and praise the song and praise our version of it, which we couldn&#8217;t have been more honored. Iconic, legendary&nbsp;<strong>Ann Wilson<\/strong>&nbsp;thinks that we did a great job with a&nbsp;<strong>SIMON &amp; GARFUNKEL<\/strong>&nbsp;cover. That&#8217;s pretty incredible, a pretty great honor. So when we reached out to her, she was more than willing to jump on board. And she came in and she&nbsp;<em>killed it<\/em>\u2026 And she&#8217;s super cool and down to earth too, and just incredibly talented. It&#8217;s such an honor to have her be on our record. And to me, the blending of her voice and&nbsp;<strong>David<\/strong>&#8216;s voice, they really, really work&nbsp;<em>so well<\/em>&nbsp;together. I&#8217;m so proud of&nbsp;<strong>David<\/strong>&nbsp;and just so honored to have her a part of our record.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2022,&nbsp;<strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>&nbsp;guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Dan Donegan<\/strong>, whose divorce inspired&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;<\/strong>, told&nbsp;<strong>Meltdown<\/strong>&nbsp;of Detroit&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>WRIF<\/strong>&nbsp;radio station about the band&#8217;s collaboration with&nbsp;<strong>Wilson<\/strong>: &#8220;Early in our career, we wanted to really establish ourselves without having any guests. We didn&#8217;t really talk about it much, but just [felt], &#8216;This is the band.&#8217; Not that we were ever against it, but this far along in our career\u2026 We&#8217;re always pushing ourselves, trying to do stuff that&#8217;s different musically. And there&#8217;s so much talent out there and so many people we would love to do collaborations with now or later in our career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>Ann Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0had mentioned before \u2014 she tweeted about us before,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;A few years back, somebody asked her in an interview or whatever if there&#8217;s anything new out there, or\u00a0<em>newer<\/em>, musically that she&#8217;s heard that she&#8217;s fan of, and she mentioned she really loved our version of\u00a0<strong>&#8216;The Sound Of Silence&#8217;<\/strong>. And that kind of opened the door to a social media friendship between her and\u00a0<strong>David<\/strong>\u00a0a bit. And then when we wrote this song, it just seemed like it would lend itself to\u00a0<strong>Ann<\/strong>&#8216;s voice and then trying to see that merge between her and\u00a0<strong>David<\/strong>&#8216;s voices together. She jumped on the opportunity. Immediately she responded, and we were, like, &#8216;Holy shit. She just said yes to this.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked by&nbsp;<strong>Meltdown<\/strong>&nbsp;if&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;is a more mellow track than the standard&nbsp;<strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>&nbsp;fare,&nbsp;<strong>Dan<\/strong>&nbsp;said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t give it away, but their voices, it&#8217;s like&nbsp;<strong>Fergie<\/strong>&nbsp;and Jesus \u2014 a little&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Step Brothers&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;[2008 movie] quote there\u2026 It was a pretty magical moment to be in the room and to hear the two of them harmonize together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We tracked&nbsp;<strong>David<\/strong>&#8216;s vocals in Nashville, and we wanted to make it easy and convenient for her, &#8217;cause we were, like, she said yes, she&#8217;s gonna do it,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Donegan<\/strong>&nbsp;continued. &#8220;Let&#8217;s make it as easy as possible on her.&#8217; We flew out to California to meet with her. We went into a studio out there for just a couple of hours, and she sang against&nbsp;<strong>David<\/strong>&#8216;s tracks. And he was there kind of going over the harmonies with her and stuff too. So it was kind of a really magical moment to see the two of them working on those harmonies together. It was pretty impressive. And she&#8217;s such a pro, and she&#8217;s so damn good. She&#8217;s a legend. So it was pretty exciting. And it&#8217;s not like she sits there and jumps on people&#8217;s albums either, so we take that as a badge of honor to think that there&#8217;s not many times where somebody as big a legend as she is that she would jump on any album. She doesn&#8217;t have to, and she chose to be on this one. And she loves the track. And it just came together great.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Released in November 2022,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Divisive&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0was recorded earlier that year with producer\u00a0<strong>Drew Fulk<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>MOTIONLESS IN WHITE<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>LIL PEEP<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>HIGHLY SUSPECT<\/strong>) in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to&nbsp;<strong>Billboard<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Divisive&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;sold 26,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release, with 22,000 units via album sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the all-format Billboard 200 chart,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Divisive&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;debuted at No. 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DISTURBED<\/strong>\u00a0has had five No. 1s on the all-genre chart, beginning with\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Believe&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0in 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of&nbsp;DISTURBED&nbsp;performing the&nbsp;&#8220;Divisive&#8221;&nbsp;album track&nbsp;&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;, featuring a guest appearance by&nbsp;Moriah Formica&nbsp;of the opening band&nbsp;PLUSH, on January 27 at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma can be seen below. DISTURBED\u00a0kicked off the 2024 leg of its\u00a0&#8220;Take Back Your Life&#8221;\u00a0tour on January 19 at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois. Earlier this month,\u00a0DISTURBED\u00a0released the\u00a0Matt Mahurin-directed&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=6319\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch: DISTURBED Performs &#8216;Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8217; Live With PLUSH&#8217;s MORIAH FORMICA In Oklahoma City<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}