Noah Weiland, the son of the late Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots), has premiered a new song titled “Time Will Tell.” The track, which features vocals from his father, was released following an alleged blackmail attempt.
Noah said the following:
“can’t believe i’m saying this right now but basically i been getting blackmailed by a random number that somehow has a very old version of a song i have with my father.
and because of that i am basically forced to release a song i had no intentions of releasing until way further into my career cause this coward rly thinks i’m about to send them $2k to not leak it. sooo, i beat em to the punch.. funny enough, i saw ‘TIME WILL TELL’ written on a bathroom wall the day i got that txt, maybe my dad thought it was time?
after years of struggling with addiction, homelessness, ppl hiding my dads $, liars, backstabbers, growing up too fast, losing my bro Gio, old friends turned foes, i been through a lot but the person i was years ago is FAR from who i am now.”
He also told Rolling Stone that he is “almost positive” he knows the alleged blackmailer:
“And if I’m correct then it’s one of my old best friends who’s super jealous of me, so I’d rather just let them sit back and watch.”
He also added the following about the song:
“Due to the fact that nobody who ‘represents’ my dad actually cares to give the fans new unheard music, let alone keep his name alive in the first place, my friend Spencer Carr Reed and I decided to turn it into a more modern sounding song as if he was still alive and just decided to hop on one of my songs. That was the concept behind it.”
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