Something Corporate • Page 2

When people would ask me, “How do you pick which song is for which project?” My answer was always, “Well, it's just whichever band I'm in at the time.” Weirdly, I'm straddling the line, and I'm in both [Something Corporate and Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness]. Honestly, I wrote this song just a couple of months ago — got the writing session and the demo, which is very much a Wilderness process where I write in the room and work on the track. Honestly, [it was] several months of not writing intentionally. I've just been trying to live, be quiet, be home and just enjoy the moment that I'm in. This was the first song I've written in a long time where I was just like, "Oh my God, I want this to come out right now."

When I was thinking about it, I was like, "Do I really want to put out a Wilderness track in the middle of Something Corporate tour? This is such a beautiful moment." And I immediately called Josh, who was the co-founder of Something Corporate. I was like, "I want to send you a song. What would you think about bringing the guys together and doing this as a collaboration?" He was so genuinely enthusiastic about it, and it was almost like a healing moment. Josh and I were, we've been best friends forever, but you end a band, you move on, you just don't know where people stand, and he was so excited. So, I brought it to the other guys and merged this Wilderness-esque production with my original band playing all the instruments. It became this beautiful moment that felt, weirdly for the first time, all of these bands coming full circle and feeling like for once it's one thing in one place.

Good quote.

 

And next song title:

The song that's going to come out next was actually written for the last Wilderness record. Luke, who produced and co-wrote “Death Grip” with me, wrote a few songs on my last album. This song was a part of the sessions that we did together. It was the first time where I was like, "This feels way more like a Something Corporate song than it does a Wilderness song that belongs on this record," and so I always just had it in my back pocket.

And then when Death Grip came up, and the band seemed legit excited about getting back in the studio, I forwarded them this other track, and I was like, "This is just a demo, but if we're all together, maybe we should try and cut another song," and everybody raised their hand and was excited. So, we cut both in the same weekend. That song was written during the pandemic. There were lyric changes and things that I had to make to say, "No, let's put this in the present universe." But it's really about just trying to source your happiness in the middle of a difficult moment. It’s called “Happy.”

 

They should have called it The Something Corporate Experience featuring Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness and Jack's Mannequin.

 

Not a huge fan of the song but seeing them all back together in the video is good enough for me.

 

Yeah I'm not a fan of this

 

Really hoping we get a vinyl release of all the (4?) songs.

 

I could hear myself asking my friends: "you want anything? I'm gonna hit the bathroom" as this song played.

 

What are you getting your friends in the bathroom?

 

Is this some weird Something Corporate fanfiction

 

Yeah this ain’t for me but cool to see them making music again

 

Not into it at all unfortunately

 

Yeah not my thing.

But I guess I can see the biz angle from those quotes. Andrew didn't want to drop new material in the middle of this cycle, and since the tour sold out so fast there isn't really any more buzz around the band outside those going to the show. So easy way to keep both Andrew's name and the band's name in the spotlight maybe? But that's kinda what it feels like is mgmt going "we gotta get something out... anything sitting around we can use?"

 

It was literally the opposite of management making this decision? This entire music release is truly making me feel like I’m going insane.

 

This is a really wild way to look at it. The song was always going to come out, nothing about this situation changes that.

The timing is what created the opportunity and everyone being stoked on it is what brought it to fruition.

There's no need to diminish how cool this is for them by dismissing it as some marketing opportunity just because you don't like the song.

 

I think the new song is great

 

Anyone know what the Days Away Setlist looked like yesterday? I’m stoked for soco tour, but days away is the crown jewel for me.

 

Something Corporate Setlist at Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn

 

Solid set list.

 

This song is fine, and is certainly Andrew, but doesn't feel like Something Corporate at all to me. All of that is okay.

Perfect setlist.

 

This last week has reinforced my pet theory that the Beatles woulda been the worst band for the internet to have existed for, to see their change in music in such a short time, and for people not to have been able (and forced) to sit and experience it, would have (probably) dramatically changed how it’s viewed commercially and critically.

 

imagine a pitchfork review of a NEW beatles album

 

Beatles overrated give me Andrew 7 days a week

 

“You Know My Name” discourse. Boring. Doesn’t sound like the same band. Production is weak.

im feeling very boomer today

 

I don’t think the problem with Death Grip is that it’s a change in sound from what people think or hope 2024 SoCo should sound like as much as it’s just a boring song to me?

 

Sorry but I don’t believe this is true.