Courtesy RED MUSICSinger and actor Max Schneider, otherwise known as MAX, has just scored his first-ever Gold single: “Lights Down Low,” featuring gnash, has been certified forr sales and streams of half-a-million. While the singer’s grateful for the milestone — and his shiny gold plaque — he says receiving it left him with an “empty feeling.”
“I’ve always dreamed of having a plaque. It’s exactly what I pictured, it was beautiful,” MAX tells ABC Radio. “But when I actually got the plaque, it was like this very empty feeling, to be honest with you. And I think in a way, it was kind of healthy that it felt that way. Because it made me realize that…this is just not why I’m doing this. And I’m so glad that it’s not.”
“It’s gotta be about the work and the passion and every day,” he explains. “‘Cause that plaque — that’s one day out of years and years and years, and if you’re just doing it for that, then you’re probably living a kind of sad life.”
Max says what he cares most about is spreading “the message of the song,” which he wrote for his now-wife, Emily. He’s thrilled that “Lights Down Low” has become a part of other couples’ love stories as well.
“It’s been amazing that people use it as their wedding songs now and I’m getting to marry a couple on tour soon. I’m getting ordained and doing that…that’s the stuff that I’ve dreamed of,” he tells ABC Radio.
“The plaques are so sick and it’s like, so awesome,” he adds. “But I’d take marrying a couple to the song that means so much to me over a plaque any day, I realized.”
Max’s Meteor tour kicks off October 5 in Vancouver.
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