I'm interested in please check all that apply. You may opt-out anytime by clicking "unsubscribe" from the newsletter or from your account. The problem is that in her own life, she is very dramatic and sensitive, and she plays the victim constantly.
For instance, earlier this year, Rachel and two of her friends from college were planning a trip to New York. One of the friends recently brought it up. Rachel got defensive and said they told her she could pay them back whenever. She said I was attacking her. You were right to call her out and hold her accountable. If she shows no improvement, you might need to distance yourself from Rachel and her toxic patterns. Dear Annie: I work in the IT department of a large company. They are incompetent and unable to help anyone.
I was recently promoted to a management position, and I feel that I am the only one who is able to help out on the floor whenever anyone has a question. With that being said, our management team loves to do management dinners and go out to eat. More recently, the managers decided to push it a step further, and they want to spend a day together over a three-day weekend.
I hate going on outings with them because I just feel that everyone is so fake. I could barely manage the dinners, but now they want me to spend a day off with them, too? What do I do? But lyrically, I just think a lot of people will connect with it relationship-wise. But also, we kind of realized recently — were about to shoot a music video for the song — after talking with the director, we interpreted it in the music video more about tapping out on yourself wanting to give up or wanting to end it all, or whatever.
And just feeling like you gotta like try to make it one last round in life. But yeah, I guess most people will obviously see that it relates to being in a relationship but I think it also kind of makes sense to be more like a relationship with yourself, you know? So as you mentioned, you threw the song in the pot of potential songs after thinking it was going to be for your solo project. So not only was it one of 50 you guys wrote for the album, but it ends up being the lead single.
So I mean, imagine you write 50 songs and you pick the best Actually, we narrowed it down to like 20 and then we picked the best 13 out of that. So I mean, in our opinion, we picked the best of the best. And every song on the record, to me, is a total banger. And I think it makes sense for the first single. You never really know, though.
But we just have to kind of follow through with it, you know. Like we believed in it, our first instinct told us this should be the first song that comes out. So we think that this song will help the transition a little bit.
But then again, with Issues, expect the unexpected I guess because we never really follow a criteria. With every album Issues puts out, it seems like you guys are always ahead of the curve. So when it comes to writing a record, one that took two years to write, was it challenging to stay ahead of the trends? I think our plan was mapped well because we did spend a lot of time writing — and things, you know, trends come and go.
Trends, like music, style, and things that are popular, things that people want to hear, change. Even since we started writing the record to when we recorded it. But you know, we recorded it at the tail end of it all. And then after, we just like whatever great songs we feel like we wrote, then we can have that conversation. Is it pretty frustrating that as a band, you guys might have certain thoughts of whether your fans might want you to be heavy or people behind the scenes, like a label, might want you to do something different?
Is it frustrating as an artist to sometimes have people knowingly or unknowingly pushing those kinds of restrictions? The label is pretty like trusting. They give us a lot of freedom, especially when it comes to writing. You tell us what songs are great songs. And we want to give fans what they want because obviously, we need our fans. But I think most of our fans are pretty open-minded and they trust Issues. You know, we kind of bend genres and we break boundaries and I think that they like that from us.
But I also think fans like that we take this is that we…. Yeah, we take risks and we have that freedom. They expect that from us, they expect us to do exactly what we want to do especially when it comes to what the music sounds like.
We would just continue making the same heavy album or making whatever we know is going to work and we know is going to sell because our fans like that.
We believe in it. But to me selling out would be playing it safe. So I mean, I just keep a stockpile [of songs]. You know, Prince had hundreds of songs or Bruno Mars. Bruno Mars writes songs for all kinds of people then he also has the Bruno Mars performance, like his project.
So I just keep a stockpile of songs at all times. And anytime I write a song, it goes in there. With you writing so many different genres and musical styles, what inspires you to write something heavy? So that was my angsty music that I listened to.
And I like angry pop-punk songs. Okay, so last question. Is that something you can comment on? Yeah, I feel like [Woe, Is Me] had a pretty nice legacy going on with Number S a nd I felt like there was really no place on the internet or like a social media account to reminisce that era.
You know, not saying anything bad about Hance [Alligood, ex-Woe, Is Me vocalist] or any of the later members or where it ended. But I just felt like, at its peak with Number S , I felt like that should have a place on the internet. And also, I mean, if we were to do a year anniversary of Number S , it would have to be next fall.
So next year is really the only chance that you would ever be able to do it. And if we were going to, I would want the social media [accounts] to start growing now. So that we would have a platform to promote it and stuff. It has everything to do with there was a legacy that people really still cling to, to this day.
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