- Can you just like speed up my voice
and have me talk like-
What's up, this is Awsten from the best band
in the entire world, Waterparks.
Platinum selling, very good.
Check it out.
And today, I will be painting Fandom,
our new album on this board here.
The colors chosen are going to be based on
the synesthesia that I have.
Synesthesia, is where you can see colors
with sounds.
Whether that's like songs or even just noises
or, you know, what have you.
So, you'll kind of get an idea of, I guess,
where the lights of the shows come from and
the colors in the videos.
Cherry red.
Obviously, got a little bit of red in there.
That's why a lot of our songs have color
stuff in the names.
Like, people will be like why is this called
peach?
Like, it sounds peach.
Like, it sounds like that color.
I kinda didn't rea-I didn't know what synesthesia
was at first but, actually John, our photographer-
there he is-like I think we both had these
conversations like we've known each other since
like junior high or whatever, but we're like this
song kinda feels like red, and blue and blah-blah
whatever.
And I realized later through people being like,
"oh, you probably have synesthesia."
I'm like, "uh, Google: synesthesia."
That's right, that's what that is.
That's crazy.
One down, fourteen to go.
Long album.
So, Watch What Happens Next, is kinda similar,
but we're gonna throw in more orange, and
more yellow, and no purple.
Okay, I see what we gotta do.
Starting with you.
Not a lot of songs have this color in it, to me,
on this album.
Can you guys see my shoes?
Ain't this sick?
Look at that.
That's crazy.
Shout out [Inaudible]
So, Dream Boy, has a lot of blues in it.
Its definitely still got some red and like,
white and stuff.
So, I'm gonna try and leave a little room.
Its gonna be hard.
And everyone could be like, I'm just whining
on a song or like bitching or whatever, and
I feel like a way to get away with that
is by dressing it up as something else.
I'm like, saying my real feelings and since it's
all like-
It's fine.
And so, that's pretty tight.
You guys, are there any secrets that like, or like,
things that people think?
I'm tired of people thinking that aliens
aren't real because they really are.
Like, you're crazy if you don't
believe in aliens, I think.
I should clear up that Zendaya and I,
are not dating.
Sorry, everybody.
It was just as disappointing when I found out too.
Some people think I'm like 5'10 and I'm
actually, 7'3.
And, I'm really-why are you laughing?
Jeff does like Minions.
He also likes Peppa Pig.
This is looking pretty right.
Everybody that goes to our shows and likes
our band is, DIRTY!
I don't trust them.
I don't like them.
Otto thinks they're great.
Gonna get some green.
I guess this is the first one where it's like
predominantly green or at least has like a
big picture of it.
I gotta start throwing in some other colors.
And, I gotta make sure the red is not touching it
because when-red is tricky because you can't
really put it with a lot of things.
You can't put it with yellow without looking
like fast food or a gas station.
And you can't put it with green without looking
like holidays.
So, I gotta kinda be careful.
- I wouldn't want to put out the album without
any of them.
Like, with any of them missing.
But, I would say High Def is like my
favorite song ever.
I don't really get into feelings and shit,
like too much.
Like, I go to therapy and stuff but its not
like I-I'm not really one to like air shit out
on like the timeline too much, you know what I mean?
Because, that's not like what that's for.
So, when it happens in songs that's kind of like
the-that's definitely the place for it.
But, it's definitely one of the more in
your feels songs on the album.
It was done after the Dream Boy day was done too.
What a good day for Fandom.
Like, Dream Boy got knocked out.
And then, it was like, "hey I got these cords can
I just like lay them down really quick so
that way I can just write over them later?"
He was like, "sure."
I was like, "actually I got a few more, can I
like do those?"
He's like, "okay."
And it was like, hey let me just go in there
for a second.
And then, so, we finished Dream Boy around like
midnight or something.
Then High Def was like written and recorded
in like 3 hours.
It was like 3 or 3:30 or something, and it was like
guess I'll go home now.
Like, that's-I love this song very much.
Then, the next day, listen and its still good, yes!
So, Turbulent is super dark green, to me.
It's like I want the lights, like all of them
in this one pretty much to be green.
But, not green like that.
That's a very different kind of thing.
I want it to just be like, angry.
We're gonna put a little hair, of like,
brightness.
All the sparkly in it, like all the
sparkly production, that feels very light to me.
Or very bright to me.
So, it's not like it's just like a full on
like complete darkness.
Otherwise, I would just paint it black but like,
that's too much blue.
Don't put my burp in the video.
So, Never Bloom Again is kinda grayish to me,
but also yellow-y.
Didn't paint gray yet.
Feels like light and pretty but it feels like
kinda night time-y.
Yes, okay.
War Crimes, very green.
It sounds kinda jungle-y.
We're gonna throw in some blues, like a couple.
Light in there too.
It's a good little baby.
All right, Worst.
Getting a lot of gray.
I threw a lot of wind sounds in there too,
that I recorded like back in Houston around
the time of this.
Because I wanted to kinda like submerge the
listener in that as much as possible.
I felt like, hey why not literally put them
in the exact enviro-actually this is maybe
one of the closest ones I've done yet.
This is crazy.
Here it is.
This is Fandom, the album.
Blah.
It's beautiful.
I'm gonna try and keep this.
They're not gonna let me.
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Let's go, come to the show, bye.