the runs on this though what i'm saying you kind of hit it i don't play why yeah where are you in a nightclub is this what you spend your money on mood lighting the royalty checks are in she went straight down to costco and got some disco lights good um yeah i did that's worth it it's a mood it's a vibe how are you doing miss you guys too wow
and happy birthday to your bro too because as we would do this you know how you been i mean um strange question such an obvious human thing to ask and it's like it's such so loaded now how do you even answer that question i don't know i don't know life is weird as hell i don't know i don't think well thanks for the music i mean thanks
for bringing us something special i mean my future is like wow it's a whole other level again um lowercase i like that i like the detail what's with the lowercase you know it's funny like i i actually like thought about changing it this time because i so basically i've been doing lowercase for like years like every project i've made is all
lowercase i don't know why i think it like it makes it more um it's like pleasing to the eye i feel like yeah i get it and less like professional which i always liked let's talk about the song right the power of being alone man the the desire just to be left alone to indulge in one's company and not have to
deal with everyone else's um false expectations of of um you know company and what that brings to one's life um that's what i'm getting out of it just like leave me be it's just that growth you know it's growth you know i feel like at least for me i feel like there was like i spent years and years relying on having
someone and as soon as i didn't have someone i got somebody else and i'm not talking about relationships i'm talking about everything like any like i i couldn't i could never be alone like i couldn't take my own company for so long and i don't know i just felt like i needed i needed that growth i needed a moment to myself and i got it and i it was
really hard like it's really it's so much harder than you think to not rely on people you know to just have yourself to rely on and just like it's weird it's not something you think about being hard but when you're in that like you know alone zone it's a it's a new feeling and i i really wanted to talk about it and you know i feel like people everything
is about love and everything is about you know there's nothing that talks about how being alone is really powerful and you grow a lot and you learn a lot and like it's not bad you know it's great once you get there but you're right it takes a second this song is obviously a celebration of that growth and realizing it's okay i'm
okay being just on my own but what were those moments when it was like whoa i'm not sure i would this this is this is rough because i've been there that's right yeah i know i mean it's like it's it's that but it's also like you know even when you know something i've been doing for i mean it's hard to do it right now because time
feels very uh hopeless but there's still hope in it you know we will get out of this you know i mean eventually it might take years but we'll be okay eventually and that's got two years right it's got two years all right that's almost the bar we have to set for ourselves now it's crazy it's gone from like oh this summer's going to be
awful to wow what's next summer same and then the one i know no dude i remember like getting home from tour and being like yeah we'll probably be back out in two weeks nope so it's just you know it's like we we should have hope because there's stuff to look forward to in the future like even if it's far as hell even if it's tomorrow like we don't know what's
to come and i've always loved that you know like it's something that i've i've always like used as a tactic to like put myself at ease you know when you're overwhelmed or you're not liking your current situation if you just think about like what is my life gonna look like in like five months what's it gonna look like in a year
perspective yeah perspective and it's like think about it and it's like i don't know i love thinking about that it makes me hopeful and it makes me excited and i love the idea of not knowing what's in my future and i love the idea that i'm gonna meet somebody something i'm gonna do something and it's gonna change my life like you don't know
you know it's exciting what is the line in the song you're most proud of because i know that you guys stack them up so deliberately and nothing get makes the cut unless it sits perfect right what's the what's your favorite line in the song i really like the second pre-chorus of um i'd like to be your answer because you're so handsome but i know
then to drive you home because you'd invite me in and i'll be yours again yeah ma'am period i want to know about how you record the vocal because the sound is incredible did you record it there you caught it in phineas how did you get the the tone and the feel and the sound of it because it sounds so intimate and upfront and by the way
when the beat kicks in and you are able to maintain that even though i thought it was just going to ride out the first half is going to ride out and that tasteful production kicks in but the vocal remains this incredible intimate feel like how did you get that how did you capture that i don't even know like this was such a
satisfying process it was so so satisfying we wrote we wrote the song in like two days is that fast for you that's crazy fast for us i mean to be honest with you lately kind of been like that it's kind of been you know we're just going so it's been great it's like this is the most we've ever worked in one period of time um but we record we
wrote it like a month into quarantine probably and it was pouring rain and we were like in this like oh it was such a perfect setting and then we recorded the vocal in phineas's studio which is just in his basement in his house um and i don't know there was it it actually took like a lot like for me i'm sure you know i take
in forever to get a vocal take that i like and i do like a billion takes and this one i just i don't know there was something about this one take that i did and i was like this is the only way that it can be and and then you know what was funny was we were kind of stuck for like a day we were like what stuff do we do here what do we like
where does this go and we were actually this is so crazy but we were actually like i was about to leave i was like i don't think we're gonna get anything done we had you know the song recorded but we didn't have we didn't know what to do with it and we popped in the pool we got out of the pool and i was literally gonna go home and i was like let's like
let's just look around with it a little a little more and we finished the song that night like finished completely it was crazy it was so satisfying i think as an artist that that is the most exciting and tantalizing but also potentially anxiety-inducing realization is that every single thing that you do that is
not creative you are bypassing a portal to a creativity and if you think about it too long and hard you start thinking about what you're not capturing versus the life you're actually living that yeah i'd never go out again if i got too lost in that i know i know yeah that was that was the little yep yep yep so you recorded it during those epic
rainstorms that brought the ceiling down and the house i was living in literally brought our ceiling down because of the rain yeah los angeles isn't built for houses for rain this doesn't know what to do with rain yeah it's so true no yeah it was like boring it was poor i mean yeah it was it was it was really nice too it was
nice yeah i miss it dude me too i was so so relieved you know of course when we got home i was like i'm so glad that when we're in quarantine it'll be only for the you know when it's raining it'll only be this period of time i loved how how loud and how and how definitive you were at a time when many people including myself were trying to find our voice and
work out what we wanted to say in order to be of value and powerful conversation to add support to black lives matter and to also there are other conversations and there are other fights to root out malignant behavior and age old attitudes you stepped right up and you were like i'm giving this to this belongs over here this belongs over
there shut the up i'm doing this it's like you just jumped into action was that all instinct it was everyone else was overthinking it billy everyone else was just overthinking trying to work out that i was in that group and i i because dude it takes it takes a minute to gather your thoughts and to to maintain um not being
insensitive like you can't just be thoughtful with your thoughtfulness you've got to be thoughtful like it takes a minute and that's why you know you shouldn't jump to conclusions when somebody doesn't say something immediately they're i mean it depends but i just i was like taking you know i was like oh what do i say am i gonna and i just got pissed off
i just read too many comments from stupid ass and like big heads and i was like you know what i'm tired of this i'm i'm i'm not gonna pull my words together in a polite whatever the way i'm gonna shout at these because they need to be shouted at and you know i could have done it way more um but yeah i just think it's like at a certain
point you just gotta yell well you know it's your future that's why it's your world i mean and and generations to come and we all inhabit it but stakes are so high and i can admit i can see the anger i understand it's like this is not what i want to grow into and what i want my kids to grow into and their kids it's like it's not
it's not happening no i know and that's you know as much as my future is is a song about personal growth and um being content it's you know now more than ever i listen to it i'm like wow this actually you know is super relevant to right now and totally our future as a world and as a people and you know i i don't know it's it feels it's crazy
when you can get to a point in life where hope itself feels hopeless it feels hopeless to hope for stuff it's so true like i feel like man should i even be should i even be like indulging in this right now i know i know should you even be wishing you know should you even be hopeful it's like is it even worth it and it's just that's
insane that that's where we are at this point we need the music man we need the music we need the hope the music is pure the music can't be altered the music can't be censored it can't be twisted it can't be turned the media can't with it social media conflict with it it's just you what you want to say with your bro we need it you got it you