Why Ville Valo Won't Use Social Media + Handed Over His Passwords

In a brand new interview, Ville Valo of HIM discusses why he would not use social media.

The performer defined that he handed over his official social media passwords to another person. So he would not use such on-line platforms personally.

Today, 5 years after the dissolution of HIM, Valo is lastly releasing his debut solo LP, Neon Noir. It arrives Jan. 13, 2023. In the meantime, he informed interviewer Gustavo Maiato why he stays off social networks, the place his Heartagram shops reside on Facebook and Instagram.

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“I’m so old school that I still believe in imagination,” Valo explains. “I believe in stuff that is left for the imagination. Especially in my world of music, I think there’s too much info.” (through Blabbermouth)

He continues, “People let people know too much about them, and all the info is very fragmented, like little tidbits. I’m not interested in telling people once again that I didn’t have a breakfast. … It’s not a way of communicating I feel comfortable with. The record company is communicating through Heartagram, the Facebook and Instagram. And Twitter, I guess.”

Valo provides, “I’ve always liked artists that are a bit mysterious, and I like that there’s a sense of detachment. That also gives the people, and me as a listener — that makes my imagination to do more work. I think that when you really start imagining things and you start building ideas about an artist. That’s way more powerful and special and unique than the little info, the constant bombardment of info, on social media.”

This doesn’t suggest he cannot grasp the facility of social media, nevertheless. Quite the opposite, because the singer’s at present hands-off strategy comes from realizing social media’s huge sway.

“I understand its power,” Valo says. “I do understand the fact that it’s so easy for people to communicate, especially if they’re far away from each other; it’s a great way of doing so. But I just don’t feel comfortable.”

He underscores, “I think that it easily becomes this game that you start it and you can’t stop. And I think that it’s better that I keep myself out of it. I don’t have any passwords or anything like that for Heartagram. I gave ’em all away. I said, ‘I don’t wanna know.’ ‘Cause I don’t wanna wake up in the middle of the night and start all of a sudden writing some truth down in all caps. ‘Cause that’s exactly what I’d probably do.”