–Pause it real quick?
Laughter ensues
I want this to s- be supernatural, ’cause if not, it’s gonna sound kind of corny, bro.
You’re right! You know, like – how did you come up with the story for the character and shit?
Um… I based it all off of…
The emotion I got from when I heard the instrumental–
And the first instrumental I heard– for the EP was Rockit.
Word
—and that’s how I kind of painted that picture and shit.
*Quiet laughing*
Hey, can anyone go turn that light off, somebody real quick?
I don’t know, but the way I, like– the way I look at music and sh#t like that, like— I think that… there’s people, you know, who make songs and sh#t like that, and then there’s people who make real music. You know, and like– songs are nice and songs are good and stuff like that, but music is what captivates people
You– it’s something there, that, like, is drawing them to it, and I think that- that same quality is like the kind that we see in sh#t like- like books that people read, y’know what I mean?
(Right.)
Like, the perfect example would be, like– Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, know what I mean? J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien– Ian Fleming, the dude who did, um— James Bond?
Mhm
–And some sh#t like that, right? Like, he wrote a bunch of books on a private island, and—he never was an international spy, but he captivated the whole world to a point where they’re still making movies about that sh#t, y’know what I mean?
Mm
I think once people stop, like, just thinking, like–
“Oh, I gotta make this song, gotta make that song, gotta make that song—” and just go like, “Alright, let me try and– come up with a story,” y’know what I mean?
Yeah
–and then not e- not even be like, “Alright, I gotta finish this whole story in one song.”
But, put part of the story out there, y’know what I mean, and then continue the story elsewhere—continue the story wherever you want to continue your story at because at the end of the day, you can do what–
Like— I feel like people are, like, limited on this formula and sh#t, and I think that—really, we can do whatever we want with whatever we’re writing ’cause we’re writing it, you know?
Your story—you tell your story: your story is told until you have a new story to tell
And once you get to that point where your story is told and you have nothing else to say about yourself, then you’re going to have to find some other source, y’know what I mean?
–How would you bring that vision… into today’s music?
‘Cause today’s music doesn’t really follow storylines, and it’s a lot more–at least in mainstream music, that’s what I mean–it’s a lot more… it’s a lot more formulated, like you said, like it’s based off formulas, like–
–Is it a bad thing that it’s formulated?
It- it became the way it is for a reason, so like, at the end of the day– you have to learn that formula in order to break that formula
Exactly
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