Comments on: Otep interview

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:33:23 +0000

She has more talent then you b**ch

By: Brittd

Brittd — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:38:42 +0000

spaghetti eater says:
September 12, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Otep is simply the worst thing to happen to rock music after Mark David Chapman.

Like most of the replies say and my personal favorite quote “If you don’t like it LEAVE MOTHERF***ER LEAVE”
If you have a problem with Otep then put it somewhere else cause nobody cares

By: spaghetti eater

spaghetti eater — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:45:13 +0000

Otep is simply the worst thing to happen to rock music after Mark David Chapman.

By: irontoof

irontoof — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:24:36 +0000

Like -> listen

Don’t like -> don’t listen, don’t discuss, forget

By: bridget

bridget — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:41:55 +0000

otep is f**king amazing she sings beautiful songs and i love every single one of them – she is a great inspiration to me and a great leader – singing the truths of life. if you don’t like what i have to say email me your reply to my words at faithb@tamarack.org

By: Sensi the Ninja Squirrel

Sensi the Ninja Squirrel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:35:42 +0000

Man OTEP rox!! I wish I had at least hlf the talent as her. If you have a problem with her views then why do you dwell on them, move on. I don’t agree with everything she says, but I respect her thoughts though. She is a true woman, someone to look up to. Man OTEP don’t worry about what these simple minded people think!

By: Tina Tina

Tina Tina — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:29:29 +0000

http://www.metalsucks.net/?p=170 These people are trying to give her controversy, check the truth at metalsucks .net

By: Tina Tina

Tina Tina — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:28:08 +0000

Stop this S**T!

By: NightWord

NightWord — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:47:33 +0000

OTEP is a healer. The only people that try to pull her down are those who are insecure in themselves and NEED her message.
I’m sick of people trying to pull others down into their own emptiness… they can only drown themselves, no one else.

As a gay male teen, I can truly say that I’ve seen both sides of a cruel world, and only a true leader like OTEP can express that pain as a deliverance to the other side of torture. Her art, soul, and voice lead a wisdom accompanied by five lifetimes of experience.

Point: all you haters are merely the followers of a crowd that is tainted by feminists, racists, and prejudices.
GET A LIFE!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:59:53 +0000

All I have to say is this: A workmate lent me his burnt copy of Sevas Tra three years ago. From her first roar, I got a goose-bump buzz that wouldn’t go away even after the album was over with.

The torture in her voice was so convincing that when I returned the CD, I told my workmate “I’ve never heard anything so intense (referring to HER, not so much the music). Was that supposed to be an autobiography?”

Talentless hacks? Let their following speak for itself. She’s certainly struck a nerve somewhere out there. I will admit that the music has gotten me more curious about HER and what makes her tick than her music and the band.

At the very least, she’s an uncut diamond. Ms. Shamaya, here’s to you.

By: Fthatcritisise

Fthatcritisise — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:50:20 +0000

i hate people who criticise period, but those who have the “ba*lls” to criticise true artists like Otep – need to take a jump off a cliff. She has healed more souls than you can count. if your objective is to criticise then all you will ever get in return is a bunch of criticism. We as fans of Otep say that you are wrong about her and that she doesn’t need nor want you in her life either if all you have is your ill gotten wills and your disrespectful ways towards her and the art that she creates. Sevas tra=art saves!!! we love you OTEP!!!

By: Zaller4

Zaller4 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:10:58 +0000

I get so tired of hearing people saying “Otep is talentless” and other pointless bullshi*t. You are destroying the very message she is trying to create. Music is not a popularity contest to her. It does’nt matter if you think she is a “Feminazi” or if you think she needs to edit her vocals with pro tools. Her music is art…It is a form of self expression and the way she chooses to express that art is through raw emotion. You can either embrace this art or shun it but it makes little difference. It is what it is. Accept it or move on!

By: Mojo Schmoe

Mojo Schmoe — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:37:09 +0000

I think that Otep DOES have talent. She’s a solid writer, and a solid singer. But since she started developing her Christ complex and thinking she’s some sort of artistic god (thanks largely to those fanatical worshipers of her that constantly, constantly feed her martyr/messianiac bullshit), the work has started to sound pretentious and self-indulgent.

By: Insanity_ina_can

Insanity_ina_can — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:22:07 +0000

Life takes balls. You shouldn’t be intimidated by a dominate women. Embrace her as your sister in metal. When you go to an Otep concert you experience the raw anger and hatred left after years of abuse. I have had the same kind of childhood and that is what turned me onto metal in the first place. Don’t constrict music into metal and notmetal. Like the music for what it is and realize that the music changes as the artist does. I will keep listening to Otep if I decide I like their “alternative” sound

By: Kristie

Kristie — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:39:40 +0000

Saw OTEP live at Granada in K.C. Dec. 8th ‘06 and this one of the most exhilarating and intoxicating experiences in my (long) life. Women are, by nature, passionate creatures, however; Ms. SHAMAYA captivated her audience like no other artist (male OR female!) with the “death growls” and pure, raw, f***ing hatred! All eyes were on her, we worshipped her like a god, and we momentarily ascended together in awe of her. She’s my latest soul sister, because I thought I was out of my mind with emotion. If she can take the pain then I can too. Feeling her presence was a relief to my psyche. No matter how powerfully “ballsy” her presence, she’s still pure, brutal femininity! WOW, I found someone I actually admire, respect and envy all at once. (She was checkin’ out my tattoos too, I think – sorry my friend scratched you.) If your experience was that she sucks live, watch this concert and reevaluate your position. This girl has infinite talent.

By: metalhead

metalhead — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:41:21 +0000

OTEP is an amazing band! They are a message band and truly do care for their fans. If the tables were turned and Jamey Jasta was continuously asked how it was to be in a woman dominated genre, he would get a little irritated too.
Stop asking the gender question and just talk about the music.

Otep is a great artist, a great vocalist and an amazing poet. Ever so often someone comes along and takes a genre in a different direction, for the BETTER, its called EVOLUTION!
Otep is that artist!

By: rage

rage — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:44:07 +0000

I’ve had to sit through Otep sets and she is horrid as a vocalist. Mind blowing instruments???? Do you even listen to metal? How is third rate nu metal mind blowing? The band is looking to cash in because they obviously won’t ever get taken seriously by true metal fans and the fans they’ve tried to grab, have graduated high school. Let’s leave the term mind blowing for bands that deserve it: ie Dream Theater, Evergrey, Death……

Otep was and are a gimmick, a half rate chick singer fronting a generic nu metal band who are now going more alternative to make money, assuming they don’t get dropped from their label.

By: GodDestroyPrelude

GodDestroyPrelude — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:12:01 +0000

I would love to strongly disagree with the above statements. Otep has more talent in her pinkie than most people do in their entire body. Her words alone are poetryâ€¦never mind the mind-blowing instrumentals! They are amazing live! amazing! I had a wonderful experience during the last tour and I took something wonderful away with me.
The band is not looking to â€œcash outâ€ on anything.
Pleaseâ€¦give me a break.

Most people are so mentally limited. Art is messy. People are messy. Life is messy. Many try and force it to be neat and clean and organized. Things happen, art changes, people changeâ€¦some of them evolve.

By: rage

rage — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:46:28 +0000

Women can use the whole “if you don’t think she’s talented, you’re scared she has more b*lls,” but its a cop-out. No one is scared of Otep doing anything like that. She’s not talented, her growls are decent – when pored through Pro Tools, but she sounds like garbage live. There are alot of women in metal that deserve recognition. Rachel who sang with Sinister was insane. Angela Glassow is phenomenal, Christina Scabia, the singer for Madder Mortem… need I go on? Otep are a bunch of talentless hacks who are attempting to find some place to cash in. It’s not that she doesn’t need metal, It’s that metal doesn’t want or need her.

By: Pride

Pride — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:15:28 +0000

Otep’s lyrics are sometimes a bit too feminazi for my taste. (excuse me for using a term coined by Rush Limbaugh and his partner in idiocy) But, the fact is that she’s a strong, intelligent, independent, talented woman. Anyone who says otherwise is obviously trying to compensate for something…hmm…scared of the fact that a woman has more b**ls than you do?

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:10:24 +0000

OTEP = Talentless hack