- Everyone's trying to be unique but also wanna be like
social media people that we see every day.
And I just thought, well, you're just like everyone else.
You're not unique.
You're just doing what everyone else is doing.
And yeah, it's easier for you to fit in
than it is for me, absolutely.
Some little Australian chubby chick coming through
with constantly wearing a hat.
The back of my hair is falling out.
I'm probably wearing a dirty track suit
because I just don't care about what I wear
because it's about what is in my brain.
I wrote this song about going to a party
that was exclusive or is like one of those kind of parties
that people wanna go to.
And when I got there, I realized that everyone there
was not really having a good time.
They were more focused on I guess talking to people
about why they were the most important person there.
And no one really was that chatty.
Everyone was more just taking photos and just trying
to prove to social media that they were there.
And to go from two different, very different positions
obviously a year ago, I was living in my car
and playing music on the street
to then going to this kind of lifestyle,
I realized the the grass isn't always greener
on the other side.
And yeah, I love playing my music to people
but there were things about this life
that I didn't really like.
It's like a general kind of thing
that we're all talking about.
I mean, everything's so easily accessible.
We have Tinder, we have all these things
that really kind of stuff we don't need
to actually really communicate
and stare face-to-face with people
and get to know them.
And even if you are at a party or anywhere
and you do have that opportunity,
it's really like what do you look like
before you even get...
It's working too in a certain way and it happens everywhere.
So I think that I just had to say that.
And X meaning anything, like whatever.
They were all talking about
what made them the most important person.
Why I should I give them my attention, which obviously
I wouldn't even think twice before speaking to anyone
that wanted to have a chat to me.
I guess everyone felt that pressure walking in
and wanted to give everyone a reason to talk to it,
to be like, oh, well, this is what I do.
I do this and this is the best and whatever.
And I think that's the pressure that was in there,
whereas I was just there to hang out in the pool and chat
and have a beer.
I was just like I don't really see that like let's connect.
Originally, I thought it would be something out of a movie
or a TV show.
I'm just so used to going up to people and chatting,
obviously, living in my van at a hostel
for two years around backpackers.
It wasn't enough to be a nice person
that wanted to have a chat to have attention,
to get attention off people, to get their time of day.
And then I thought about it and I'm like,
even those parties off movies,
I probably wouldn't enjoy being there myself either.
So I think it just didn't really go with who I am
as a person and I would way rather just have a barbecue
and some beers and just hang out with my friends
and listen to music.
I said it to Abbs, I'm like,
we're getting an Uber, let's go.
So it wasn't exactly like that
'cause we were both in it together.
So it was more asking her do you agree.
We did so many yo I'm about to get an Uber takes
'cause I'm Aussie.
So I was like, it doesn't sound right!
I'm like, yo, I'm about to get an Uber!
Like, oh my God, you gotta get it just think of it
as singing, just get it, quickly get it in there.
So it was really hard to do that
'cause I'm not a talker or a rapper.
Like, God, I wish I could.
I just would love to write raps, but I cannot rap.
So it's like, even talking on a track for me is hard
but I was like I gotta do it 'cause it's what happened
and I'm just gonna say it.
I think that I made the hook you're so fucking cool
in that way is because I'm very sarcastic
and I think that that's how I would talk.
So I just tried to keep it genuine
to the way that I would speak.
I'm pretty against actual name-calling.
And I don't think anyone not giving me the time of day
needs to be called an actual name.
I think that's going a bit far.
It was a sarcastic whatever, you're so fucking cool.
They are probably the only two lines in the whole song
where I was actually thinking
about something totally different.
I was actually frustrated because I was in this label battle
and I wasn't really that keen on signing to a label.
I happened to, and long story short, find a bunch
of really good people that I felt comfortable with.
But at the time, people were giving me stuff,
coming to the studio and giving me stuff.
And I just hated that and it made me feel really anxious
and I didn't like it.
And especially 'cause they were people I knew
I just got weird feelings from.
I was just like I don't care about anything.
I don't care about who you are, I don't care about anything
that you say that you do or you want or you can give me
or anything like that.
That doesn't make a connection between a human and a human
unless you're shallow.
You can look so nice leaving the house.
And I don't take that away from anyone,
but don't bank your whole night on the way you look.
You have to be able to be a human, communicate.
Otherwise, you are just a puppet.
There's so many people that are just like I look good
and that is it.
That is all that matters.
All I have to do is be able to say, hi, hello, bye, good
and thanks and I am amazing.
And that's not okay.
I didn't typically lose them,
but definitely what I was doing
when I was living in my car and living at a hostel,
playing music on the street, having beers at sunset,
running around town, skating around town,
makeup was not even a thing.
No one wore it.
My friends lived in tents, just the raw love
that everyone had for each other.
To not necessarily push them away and bring in other people
but just so happens that these are the people
I'm around right now
because of where I am and what I'm doing.
And it wasn't necessarily that I've shunned them or anything
but definitely I do miss those really, really,
really genuine connections to people
that loved you endlessly when you were paying
for your petrol with silver coins.
Put it this way, we were the only ones in the pool.
And we weren't the hottest girls at the party by no means.
I'm pointing to my best friend, Abby, she was with me.
Who cares about your makeup?
Have fun, otherwise, what's the point?
Don't let that kind of front that we put on stop you
from having a good time and meeting people
and actually having memories.