A 50 Cent collab and a ringtone album – AFI share terrible advice from record label

AFI frontman Davey Havok has shared the terrible advice he received from his major label, including suggestions of a 50 Cent collab and a ringtone album. READ MORE: AFI: ‘Decemberunderground’ review The musician looked back on the difficult period surrounding the creation of the band’s seventh album ‘Decemberunderground’ in 2006 in a new interview with Metal Hammer. AFI had signed to DreamWorks Records before the company’s music division was absorbed by Interscope, leaving the band under the umbrella of the label run by Jimmy Iovine. “The writing of ‘Decemberunderground’ was a miserable period,” Havok said. “Our A&R guy was hellbent on trying to get Jimmy Iovine – who had expressly claimed in the press that rock is dead – to pay attention to AFI, and so it was suggested that we collab with Jimmy’s great love at the time, which was 50 Cent.” “I have nothing against 50 Cent, but what does that even mean?!” he added. Havok went on to reveal that an even more unusual suggestion arrived, in keeping with the trend at the time for downloadable mobile phone ringtones. “Even worse than this was the era when ringtones were the new technology craze,” he said. “I love this man and I still ...