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Backpedaling single artwork and the photo it was based on

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single artwork and the photo it was based on

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Better Late Than Sorry single artwork and the photo it was based on

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our new song “Please Intervene” is about feeling dead on the inside, so burnt out that you feel like a zombie 🧟‍♀️🖤🥀

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TIL what a Les Paul looks like 😂

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our latest track is about feeling dead on the inside — so burnt out that you feel like a zombie 🧟‍♀️🖤

FFO: avril lavigne, weezer, the weakerthans, beach bunny, the beths, charly bliss, diet cig, bully, illuminati hotties

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here’s the story behind our latest single, The Loneliest Whale 🐋🛸👽🖤✨

it’s a story in three parts

the first verse is about the loneliest whale. in the 80s, there was a scientist who picked up a weird signal on one of her machines. eventually, she realized that it was the song from a blue whale. what was weird about it was that it was at 52hz, whereas most blue whales songs are at around 20hz.

since this blue whale has such a unique signal, scientists have been able to track it over the years. and they’ve noticed that the whale is always alone — they never pick up the 52hz whale song with the song of another whale. scientists believe this is because the signals are so different. the loneliest whale can’t hear the whale song of other blue whales, and they can’t hear him.

when I learned about the loneliest whale, I immediately thought about aliens. we’re kind of in a similar boat — we’ve been sending out signals and we’ve never gotten a response. are we alone in the universe? or are we just at the wrong frequency? either way, we’re functionally alone. that’s the second verse.

the third verse brings it back to a personal level, and is about how being human is inherently lonely. no matter how well you know another person, you’ll never really know what it’s like to be them.

the short answer is that the song is about loneliness.

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this one’s about whales, aliens, and the inherent loneliness of the human condition 🐋🛸👽🖤✨

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single artwork and the photo it was based on — this is for our new single “Better Late Than Sorry”. This is our bass player’s cat, Bud.

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we squeezed as many malaphors as possible into this short, upbeat track written for the people in your life who refuse to take accountability for anything

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I feel I must confess…

…that I’ve been feeling stressed out of my mind

I try to keep it stealth, but I haven’t been myself in a long time

I always say I’m doing fine

wish I could turn off my brain

hyper vigilant to the mundane

it’s hard to sustain

I always say I’m doing fine

anxiety renders me incapable

can’t find a way to escape it all

I know it’s not very cordial

but I’m not doing fine

why is it so hard to state that I’m not doing great?

I’m stressed as fuck

try to distract myself by doing something else

my mind gets stuck

I always say that’s just my luck

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tired of pretending everything is fine

it’s never ending — everything is fine

thoughts unrelenting, but it’s alright

the more that I attest that everything is fine

hope it manifests and everything is fine

it’s been a while since I felt alright

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but i’m not doing fine

but i always say i’m fine

why do i always say i’m fine??