We were definitely trying to get the song going, and so I opened the track up and touched it up. We worked on it three or four times until COVID hit and then we couldn’t work on it together for three or four months. Production wise we had some drums, bass, guitars, and then one lead vocal over it. By the end of that day, I’d written the rest of the song. I brought in the idea and we went from there. He’s a great dude and he killed it on the co-production. ![]() I had a session in December 2019 with this guy named Colin Munroe. It was almost a year until I revisited it. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WAITING TO RELEASE THE SONG? That’s one of my life goals actually-to play the first concert on Mars. But my thought is that maybe I'm more responsible, because I was smart enough to recognize that I needed something else. I think the narrative around that is that I’m irresponsible. It'd be a lot easier to go about my day and have rhythm and structure in my life, but I am so the opposite. ![]() There are times where I’ll start a week waking up at nine am on Sunday, and by Saturday I’m going to sleep at eight in the morning. If I didn’t discipline myself at all, I would probably stay up for twenty hours and then sleep for twenty hours. I feel like I was meant to be raised on Mars because the days are longer there. The whole nine to five work schedule -I never really fit into that. I think the world is a little too fast for me, personally. I don’t know if that is just my excuse for being lazy, but if I had all the time in the world to do something, I would take up all of it. I sat on it for a while until I realized that I had processed my feelings enough and was ready to finish it.ĭO YOU TAKE A LOT OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT YOUR SONGS? I loved the idea, but I didn’t want to spoil it by rushing into it. I took a memo of the first verse and chorus, and then I kept it in the bag for a long time. “Pillow” started with just my acoustic guitar and voice. The only thing I could do was write about it. I never really thought about trying to get into a relationship until I saw her, but I felt so helpless in the situation. I was up thinking about things like, “Will I ever be in love?” or “Will anyone ever love me?” I think the biggest part of it was that she made me realize I was lonely. ![]() I got really caught up in the whole situation. “Pillow” was just my way of expressing where my head was at. It was totally not okay for me to be this caught up about a girl I just met. It was the best way for me to get my feelings out without sounding like a creep-I couldn’t tell her all of this because I didn’t even really know her.ĭOES SHE KNOW YOU WROTE THIS SONG ABOUT HER? I wrote the first verse and the chorus that night. She was so nice to everybody, but she also made me feel so individually special when I got to talk to her. The first few lyrics of the song,“I can’t tell what's on my mind / I can’t tell if I’m your favorite guy,” was me processing my emotions. It was four or five in the morning and I was still thinking about that girl. After that night, I came back to my manager's house. I just couldn’t help but let my mind wander to those things. But it was a party setting, and she was older than me. She was one of those people that you fall in love with on the spot. I was in LA for the third time ever and I met this girl.
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