APMAs 2014: Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes wins Album Of The Year with speech about his addiction
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2014
- Monday night (July 21, 2014) in Cleveland, Bring Me The Horizon had a very successful run at the inaugural AP Music Awards, taking home two awards-one for Best International Band and one for Best Album (Sempiternal). But when frontman Oli Sykes came onstage to accept the award for Best Album, he was ready to share a bit more than your typical acceptance speech. Sykes publicly admitted to his drug addiction for the first time.
“I wanna say something that I never thought I’d actually talk about,” he said, “Before we wrote Sempiternal, I was a fucking drug addict. I was addicted to a drug called ketamine. I was on it for years, and I was fucked off my head. My band wanted to kill me. My parents wanted to kill me. My fucking brother wanted to kill me. Everyone wanted to kill me. But they didn’t-they stood by me. They supported me through all that shit, and we wrote Sempiternal because of it.”
Noticeably nervous, the BMTH frontman then went on to explain his time spent in rehab and the support he received from his family, bandmates and fans.
“No one fucking knows this, but I went to rehab for a month, and through that time, you guys had no fucking idea that I was in rehab. But you were sending me letters. You were sending me text messages. You were sending me fucking emails. When I got out of that rehab, I didn’t wanna fucking scream anymore; I wanted to sing it through the rooftops, and it’s all thanks to you. So thank you very much.”
It doesn’t get much more sincere than that. 
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The violins sounded like dying chickens.
Lmaoo your comment made my night. I can't stop laughing.
Jajajaajajajajajaj sii exacto xD
Lol
Thats fitting
Adam Tan Yuan How wtf 😂
Oli's face as he walked up literally said 'what have they done to my song?'
I feel u
LMFAOOOO
MusicBYoscarM YESSSSSS LMFAO !!!!!!!
Looks like they had a highschool band
MusicBYoscarM the fact they had to rehearse that and it sounds like that is just quality
He's brave admitting that, you could see how nervous he looked from how shaky his voice was and the amount of times he swore. He looked terrified at the beggining he didn't even notice when (sorry I don't know his name, could someone tell me?) The guy from We Came As Romans squeezed his shoulders as a congrats. Must've taken guts to admit that in front of so many people.
Oliver Sykes
But people often use Oli, instead of Oliver.
Oh wait nvm i thought i meant oliver haha
Lisa Nguyen haha no, I know who Oli is :) I'm just unfamiliar with WCAR so I'll look them up.
It's tough admitting that shit to one person, much less a whole crowd. Especially since I've had some problems with disassociatives, too. Like, trying to convey why you purposefully dull your sense of self is hard, because it comes from such a deep pit of self loathing and pain. It's tough to let people see that shit.
@@KickTheCJ That's Andy Glass :)
I love when they said Paramore's album name. Like all the others are like 'Bring Me the Horizon...Sempiternal' and then there's just 'Paramore...Paramore'
It sounded like the person reading it was confused with what to read and had to say Paramore twice to get it right XD
They could have said self titled
love always kate that would have made too much sense
Ignore repeated word? 💻
Who cares?
Wow. I can only imagine how hard that must've been for him to admit that. That takes guts. I know oli has struggled with mental problems a lot and I always knew what sempiternals overall themes about but didn't realise drugs were a major part. I knew he was on a bit of drugs but didn't know it was that bad and linked to his mental illnesses. The whole album makes even more sense now. But most definitely the song "Hospital for souls" that song makes so much more sense now that oli has come out.
Sleepwalking and Can You Feel My Heart especially make more sense too
Don't forget about and the snake start to sing:)
And the crooked young
what kind of mental illnesses did he have?
How the fuck did this even get over 200 likes. Wot.
drinking game: take a shot each time oli curses
OK👌
im not as think as you drunk i am
+a stray and a killjoy bRENDON URIe
ValeVarita I'm underage so imma take a shot of monster every time
R u trying to DIE?
his accent is so heavy that it doesn't sound completely english. i love it tho
Sexiest voice ever
His accent isn't that heavy
@@thedamntrain English as in American English? Or UK? Because to us American's, anything other than American English sounds weird so...
He's from sheffield, it's their local accent
@@thedamntrain BECAUSE as an American who speaks english, i can understand him fine. He just phrases certain words like "me" much differently. His accent has gone down a lot since then too
When he said who won the award he should have just screamed "THIS IS SEMPTITERNAL!"
No. This is sandpit turtle 😂😂😂😂.
Leah Fuentes Same thing :D
SANDPIT TURTLE FOR LIFE
OMG YES
HAHA YES
That orchestra is just dreadful.
Omg soooooo trueeeeeeee!!! Lmao
it sounds like a horror... movie soundtrack
ciscoisaboss omg AHAHAHA
it's shadow moses tho...
I KNOW RIGHT!!
The way he says "fucking" KILLS ME.
FYOOKIN😭😭
+gEraRdS PanCakE
fooking
How did you arrive at that one? What's the 'Y' doing in there? Probably the most broad use of fUck with a 'U' I've ever heard tbh
Fookin'
Its perfect tho
Yeah! His accent is so strong. And damn how many times did he say "fucking"? XD
Not a big BMTH fan, i'm a fan, but I don't know more than maybe three songs. However, I have to say I give mad props and major respect to Oli after that speech.
I feel exactly the same.
well I think you can´t call yourself a fan if u only know more than 3 songs, same goes for me, i like 3-5 songs, but i wouldn´t call myself a fan (:
Go check them fuck
@@PointlessIdiots You're a fan of the songs you know by them. That's makes you a fan.
You're a dick if you're not a bmth fan you don't know the good taste of music fr hahaha
I really love this man. It's hard to say something like this in public and show your weakness to the world. It's not something that many people in his position would do.
When I saw this during live television I cried because I realized something. When I became a fan of bmth Oliver was so skinny and unhappy, he did every drug imagineable. I still remember him saying, "legalize lsd". Then things got quiet for awhile and I wondered what happened. That's when I realized he was really in rehab.
+the ocean But just look at how incredible he looks now and how happy he is. He was incredible on the last tour, the whole band were so in sync.
Where did he said the legalize thing?
Lsd should be legalized tho
@@musaa.7973 damn right it should. Especially now.
well he didn't let the addiction win 💕 those are the things we look up to in him, he's got the will mate ✌and I'm so proud of him and the band I can't imagine anyone else holding that prize but them ✌
yes, but he got help, he realized his life was mess and try to pull it together
He was stupid enough to do it in the first place. Yes he beat it (with help) but he was weak enough to do it in the first place.
alexharringtonmusic hm, how many times have every single person been "stupid enought" or "weak wnought" to do wrong and stupid things? Yeah, it was a stupid action, yes, he shouldn't have done that but there's no need to call him stupid because everyone makes similar mistakes all the time
What would you cal similar mistakes?
when you're sad or angry people tend to do stupid things, or don't things through. His mindset was completely out of whack- so at least his negatives feelings, or at least hope are now out of the way.
It's amazing how much I've seen this band progress. I've loved them since I was 13 when they barely released Suicide Season. I'm now in college and they are still my favorite band. I'm glad they're finally getting the recognition they deserve and I'm happy Sempiternal won this award since it was such a badass album. BMTH's best album to this date, no doubt. Hopefully I'll be seeing them again when they tour with ADTR and Chiodos!
dont put your hopes that high up, oli sykes is terrible live
linker94 ive seen them live twice and they are amazing. They put on hell of a performance
linker94
I've seen him live twice (hopefully 3 in September) and he was amazing. The whole band was too actually. One hell of a show!!!
Ali
Ive seen them twice too!! Hopefully I get to see them again this year. They're extraordinary live!!
Ali true, the show is awsome, they play their music pretty well live, but still, olli isnt that good anymore live
Can we take a moment to acknowledge how awful that orchestra is? Seriously. Ever heard of tuning?
ikr? they sucked ass. I play violin, and that wasn't the tuning, it was their finger placement. Ive been rewatching these videos and cringing so hard because of that.
Darth Spidey HAHAHAHA
I thought the orchestra was purposely bad as a joke when I first heard it because it sounded like a otter was trying to play a violin.
geesus way aq
Snakeway Skywalker my high school band is better than them
I like that everybody at the apmas is like a big family. It's not like Kanye west would come on stage and say "but adtr had one of the best albums of all time"
AOAOA
Don't quite think he said 'fucking' enough..
*fokin'
whisperswithwolves I live pretty close to where Oli is from and it's actually 'Fuckin' ;)
I was about to correct that too! Fuckin is so frequently used around here...along side "reyt" and other pure Yorkshire slang ;) love it me, so glad I'm from here haha
Its got to be on of the best places in the country aha. i think 'like' and 'ano' are probably the most popular ones next to fuckin!:)
Yeah hahaha! :P Vxhh|Designer|sniper
So fucking proud of Oli, not just for admitting it in public, but for going to get the help he needed and getting past it.
Parents wanted to kell meh my fokin band mates wanted to kell meh but day stood by meh omg I love his accent 😂😂❤️
And i love u
Holy hell. The dude should be grateful that both sides of his face still work, doing a drug like K for that long.
ikr
hello guys... fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking.. thank you!
Alex Wance focken to be exact
kilmah kilmah kilmah kilmah kilmah
More like 'fookin fookin fookin fookin'... thank you guy!
"I didnt want to scream anymore I wanted to sing it from the fucking rooftops." HELL YEAH
New respect for Oli, just amazing person and artist. Definitely deserved the award.
People say 12 year olds only listen to this and other bands. I listen to this band, and my 12 year old sister listens to Slipknot. FUCKING SLIPKNOT.
+Jason Voorhees i listened to slipknot when i was 7 XD still love it
+UMVideos10 LOOL 7 years old kids now listen to Taylor Swift :D
ikr lol
+Jason Voorhees Slipknot's tunes are made for angry adolescents. She's literally only a couple of years away from their demograph.
Cie Tai Heh, funny.
Aw I love Oli 💘
Yaaas Oli=Love ♥
Oli is love, Oli is life.
I think we can all agree that 2013 was a fantastic year for music.
Proud of Oli
Never stop talking with that beautiful amazing voice with that sexy AF accent Oli it's so freaking amazing
This album was pretty worthy of this award but its cool to see him admit about his drug addiction. Glad he is better and the band is stronger than ever
Nice acceptance speech but I don't think he said the F word enough.
what the fuck is that crowd that seems like a shit atmosphere, most of the times you can feel the happiness and excitement from the crowd but seriously it seemed like only 10 people actually wanted to be there.
Lmao so true.
The only reason to be happy there was Mark Hoppus. Everyone should have left after these shitty bands appeared on stage...
It's because if you don't believe this they pay actors or extras to be there
That took guys for him to admit that infront of that large of a crowd. Hate all you want, but I'm proud to say he's one of my idols. Good job, Oli. I love you.
Bands change their sound to keep up with trends, because they can't scream anymore, or because they're bored. The fact that people here are trying to call others out for being "fake fans" for liking their new sound is absurd. We all have different tastes(some of us like heavier shit than others), but that doesn't mean someone else's opinion is less valid. I support BMTH from CYB to Drown and that doesn't make me anymore of a fan than someone who just likes Sempiternal.
+5secsofhemmo1996 i love ur user tbh xD
Thank you for this post :) god I hate this hate so much...
OMFG PREEAACHHHHH thank you for this (: we need more people like youu
everyone is talking about how awful the orchestra is but I mean the audience is even worse 😂
Maria Rivera fr they didn't do the drum roll😭😕
This made me so happy. Now everyone can see that Oli isn't perfect and that he's just like us. Him going up there and telling everyone that, took some big balls to do!
People saying this didn't deserve the award. It did, it was the most well rounded album. It wasn't an album where it only has 3 hits and that's it. The album was so good that normal fans listened to the whole album. And as an artist myself, I love seeing people looking into the whole album instead of just the music video and the rehashed radio songs. BMTH deserved it.
why does everyone hate bmth's fanbase just bc it's mostly made up by girls? what's so bad about that? any 13 yr old girl could be as good of a fan as a 56 yr old man or 12 yr old boy, (which i suspect the majority of the haters are.) Honestly age doesn't matter in music nowadays. get over your fucking selves
They hate the fanbase because 75% of them don't know any of the band's music pre-Sempiternal.
Do you know the bedroom sessions? Or thats what the edge of your seats for? Probably not and thats why ppl hate that the fanbase has so many fangirks, bc they mostly only know sempriternal and drown
This is what the edge of your seat was made for*
Because nobody wants to see those stupid girls at concerts like mayhem they're just in the way of the mosh pits it's sad but true
+ChernovFan100 so you have to know and love every single song by a band to be called a fan of theirs? i think that kinda sucks, i hate all this band snobbery. My favourite band mostly consists of teen girls now who only know their latest commercial stuff but i don't hold it against them, it makes me kinda happy to see others love the same shit i do, even if they only love half of it. Im not trying to be high horse but i only recently got into bmth and that was because of sempiternal so i felt need to you know to throw my flimsy opinion in there. Also I'm seeing them on friday and kinda feel like arguing/fighting =P
i'm glad he admitted he had a problem and actually did something about it
Bmth helped me through so much and I'm so fucking happy that, in turn, we as fans got to help Oliver when he was in rehab with letters and emails telling him how much we admire and love him. Real bands save fans and real fans save bands.He is so dedicated and awesome for this. Lifting himself up like that wasn't easy.
Tears in his eyes say more than any words. And to win out of such a list of nominees... that's impressive
Was I the only one that laughed when they said PARAMORE paramore 😹😹😹😹😹😹
the crowd is fucking dead
Papa Franku
The crowd is FOKIN Dead
Well... They don't sing metal songs anymore... but I still like them. And I am really happy for him.
Laura Another Emo I love old bmth as much as the new style. I think Oli realized that the demand for that type of music isn't what it used to be. And on top of that, I think he's changing. I thinks growing up and his taste in music has changed a little. Nothing wrong with that.
Nik Passmark I agree...
Now they do.
now they def do lol
I guess you could say Oli was 'Syked' to win ;)
omg that was an awful joke 😂
Minnie Croft 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was torn between Bmth, Fob, Paramore, Sws, and Tøp
+Horizon Gaming A Day To Remember makes the exact same song on every album.
***** Every single song: SCREAMING VOCALS! singing chooooorus! MORE SCREAMING VOCALS and then a singing choooooooooorus! Then a breakdown, solo, or bridge, then moooore singing vocaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaals!
+Slavelike Constructs ADTR is pretty good but yeah I agree
Love him so much, a lot of respect
So proud of Oli for beating his addiction. Can't wait to see his and the band's work in the future!
Sempiternal was amazing and deserved this award 😍
Very fans
Rest in Peace Kyle of We came As Romans
honestly Oli is one of the most inspiring people. to get through all of that and then be willing to share it with the world is just beautiful.
I'm like crying that speech was so powerful
this is why I love oli so much. ❤️
"I didn't want to scream anymore, I wanted to sing from the fucking rooftops." Fuck. just fuck
this is so inspirational it takes a lot of guts to confess something so hard to even talk about and I'm glad Oli told everyone that he has gotten better and I'm so proud of him
I've been through a lot of the same shit, but with heroin my friend. I see your eyes waterin up, i know this is a big moment for ya bro. proud of you
Sempiternal is great but I really think Common Courtesy blew it out of the water.
Same
I love his accent awh!!
3:42 for a momph
I've always wanted to see them live.
He is such a sweetheart! Meeting him was a dream and he's come such a long way. You go oli!
Where's the rest of the band?
They couldn't be there that night I guess
everybody only cares about oli loool
George Porte Sad.
They couldn't make it.
George Porte Not true. I care about Matt, Lee, Jordan, Kean AND Oli.
I respect Oli so much for doing this
Aawwhh this was so sad to hear! Glad he's recovered now 💚
That was brave of Oli!! And I'm really proud of him, really glad they won because they really deserved it!!!
"i didnt want to fuckin scream anymore, i wanted to scream it from the fuckin rooftops" beautiful
**sing it
Congrats to BMTH for the win, to Oli for beating his addiction, and rest easy, Kyle Pavone. 🙏🏻♥️
I wish you Oli Sykes and the rest of the band well man
Good thing your laying off the drugs and got help for it
Sempiternal is an awesome album as well as the others thx so much
I love coming back to this. It’s like a North Star in humility, and separating your ego. What a terrifying thing to do. Good on you Oli 🤝❤️🩹
Yes I voted for this and I am very glad it won album of the year Oli I freakin love you!!!
I know this isn’t what this video is about, but seeing WCAR present the award breaks my heart. RIP Kyle Pavone, what an incredible talent and life lost too soon.
I get so excited everytime i watch it
I voted for sempiternal , its an amazing album and has helped me alot . I listen to it everyday. They deserved the win and im so proud of them, especially Oli with his speech. I have so much respect for him and I hope I get to meet them all to let them know how much they all mean to me someday. They've come a long way
beautiful speech oli, just beautiful
Selina L did you mean fuckin beautiful?
I cant believe it, wreched and divine and feel are great albums too
Trust me!!!
Kia Mathurin ? Lmao
+Anna! At The Disco So, what can't you believe?
This made me cry so hard.
this made me cry
I love all those bands wtf, except for tousee something or whatever
I obviously love BMTH the best though
+Mikayla Malfoy Touché Amoré. They're rad. You should look them up. :}
+Mikayla Malfoy "Tousee something", why not just look at the video again to see how it's spelt instead of being rude and ignorant.
Fuck you
+poppunkcovers Hows the rude lmfao
I love bmth and I'm so glad they won best album c:
I still Love this Band and Always will 💕
Much respect for this Oli good shit mate.
He makes me so proud to say I'm from Sheffield🙈❤️
Ahh my heart I love all of those band but I am happy that BMTH won :3
The raw honesty wow
when he started talking about his addiction i started crying but hes come a long way i love him, his music has literally saved me.
The orchestral version of Shadow Moses though ♡
Am I the only one who understood "My chemical romance" at the beginning when Mark presented the band?? I was like BITCH WHAT THE FUCK W H E R E
Going through this comment section is amazing. One comment was 3 paragraphs about how brave Oli is, and how it must have been so hard for him to admit this. The next comment said, word for word, “The orchestra sounds like dying chickens.”
also yes i know im 8 years late but i had to see this speech from oli again
I come back to this regularly, but never added anything to the comments over the last decade. And,
I’ve got to agree with you: some of the most depressive stuff is upvoted the highest, meanwhile, I also prefer the 3 paragraph comments speaking to Oli’s character.
If it makes you feel any better? Years ago, I added Genius annotations which cite this -among other things - on, “Chelsea Smile,” “Alligator Blood,” and another I can’t recall, speaking to Oli’s character and something he’d hinted at for years. It’s been awesome watching others latch on, and annotate, “Sleepwalking,” since then (which is a track I cited in my analysis/dissertation/annotation on the other tracks I mentioned).
Now, we all know what his, “secret,” was. As he said, “I’m buried and breathing in regret,” I mean, the music video for, “It Never Ends,” hits completely different after this speech.
Thank you for mentioning this and pointing it out. It was one of the most seminal BMTH moments, and the top voted comments are pretty damn depressing.
Like.. you don’t have to be a philosopher all the time. You don’t have to incessantly speak with emotional intelligence. It’s cool to have fun. But, it’s a bit depressing when the only top voted, and oldest comments are merely like, “dying chicken hahaha,” you know?
Someone needed to say something meaningful to be upvoted after all these years, and I hope it’s you 🫶🤝
Respect to Oli .... and the music he and his band creates
I know part of me should acknowledge that BMTH is (possibly) going “mainstream” and that I should disregard it as I do towards Sleeping With Sirens and Pierce the Veil…but I simply can't. Oli is just so down to earth and straightforward about his own struggles through life. It makes their music more personal and something fans can relate to.
HOLY SHIT MARK HOPPUS NO ONES TALKING BOUT HIM
dephania x ikr D:
Oh my gosh I'm crying, that was so brave.. You could tell he was nervous. What an amazing soul.
I'm so proud of Oli. He's so brave to admit that to the world
I played the Sempiternal album in my car for a year straight.
0:37 The *Illuminati* is strong in this one
I'm really proud of oli over coming everything. He's an amazing person.
I just watched this and I'm shocked but Oli made it through! Good for Oli!!!
could anyone please tell me what's the song in the background while the bands are being presented??
Balam Sr Hey! This is a custom song Arun Bali from Saves The Day wrote for our use. :]
Shadow Moses
and do u have any name on that song by saves the day? haha, u two who wrote sempiternal clearly have reading problems...
Darude Sandstorm
+Christro stop
Is Survived By... is my favourite Post-Hardocre album of the year 2013. That should have won, but yeah, Sempiternal was a good album.
I always tear up at this
Looking back on this now...I can truly see how far he's come. Also may Kyle rest in peace.
Ikr . Kyle :(