![]() We did a seven-week tour, and we clicked kind of early and deeply. We were on a tour at that time with a band called Brand New, and Manchester was the first band, Kevin Devine and The God Damn Band were second, and Brand New was the headlining band. I think we're probably closer in a lot more ways than our day jobs would suggest. So, that was what we were going for with it, and that song became the obvious first single for us. ![]() A lot of the guitar sounds on that Strokes record kind of sound like cross-dressed keyboards, but they're just manipulated on guitar. When we actually did the recording, we came up with these harmonies that helped sweeten the song, and the guitar lead sounded like it either came out of a video game or kind of like that second Strokes record. this kind of weird pop music with kind of trashy drum machines. For the music, we wanted it to sound kind of like. ![]() He said something at some point about how the female character in the song is supposed to be this sort of neo-hippy - the kind of person who would marry a biker and name their kid Forest Whitaker. I think it just fell into Andy's head from the clear blue sky. I was on tour and Andy was home, and he sent me a voicemail with this super-catchy melody and this whistling kind of hook, and weird lyrics like, ".you had a baby with a biker and named him Forest Whitaker." That's kind of great, and it pops out for sure. We hadn't written a straight pop song for the record. And while we really liked this record and what we had on it so far, we kind of felt like that was the one color that was missing. From our prior record, we had a single called "You Wouldn't Have To Ask," and it was a pretty poppy song - an accessible, ear candy type of song. Usually the way we work is that either I write the basic structure of a song and we work it out from there, or Andy writes the basic structure and we do the same, and that one was an Andy song. KD: It was the last song we wrote on the record, and it's one of Andy's.
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