Motionless In White have their first active rock No. 1 since “Masterpiece.” “R.I.P.,” their duet with Skylar Grey, climbed from No. 2 to No. 1 on Mediabase’s U.S. Active Rock chart for the week of November 7. The Scranton band also leads Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart for a second week. “Masterpiece” gave them their first No. 1 at the format in 2022.
Grey was there the first time the band played “R.I.P.” for an audience. At the July 14 tour opener in Bridgeport, she walked out at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater to share the vocal with Chris Motionless. The band’s official live video, released October 13, cuts between two later nights on that tour: July 31 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, and August 9 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado.
Chris wrote “R.I.P.” about the quiet after an argument, when two people have said things they regret and neither knows how to start the next conversation. He wrote it from the perspective of a romantic partner, but said the same feeling could follow a falling out with a close friend or family member. Having another singer on the track gave both sides of that silence a voice. “Skylar’s voice brought it to another level that I never could have achieved on my own,” he said when the single arrived June 17.
Roadrunner Records released Decades on July 17, three days after the Bridgeport performance. The band brings the fall leg of its Sweat and Blood Tour back to Pennsylvania on November 20 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, with Dayseeker, The Devil Wears Prada and Dark Divine.
