Caleb Followill on nepo babies: “I’m not giving my kids shit – they gotta get it themselves”

nme.com:

Kings Of Leon frontman spoke out about the debate in a new interview with The Independent, ahead of the band’s new album ‘Can We Please Have Fun?’.It was here that the frontman – who is in the band alongside his brothers Nathan and Jared, and their cousin Matthew – opened up about the inspiration behind their ninth album, particularly how they looked back at their childhood to create the songs.“I know every mother believes in their child, but she believed in us way more than you probably should believe in your kids,” he said of his mother Betty-Ann, who died in 2021.“We didn’t have any money… A lot of people are far worse off than we were, but we went to bed hungry and we were embarrassed by the clothes that we wore as kids.

But while all that was happening, our mum was still saying, ‘You guys know that you’re going to be really special. You guys are going to do something great.’ I don’t know if she fully believed it, but I know that she was going to make us believe it,” he added.He also went on to say that the most important lesson he learned from Betty-Ann was that “You don’t have to have everything to go get everything.

You can start with very little and go very far if you work hard.”When asked by the outlet if his own children – whom he has with American model Lily Aldridge – would understand the same lesson or fall back on their parents’ success, he responded: “Nepo babies?

No, I’m not giving my kids shit. They gotta get it themselves.”He also confirmed that although the album isn’t necessarily about his mother, it was inspired by her in many ways as the members “really wanted to make an album that she would be proud of.