"Strangers" is a big movie reference.
On tour, you get ... You take time to watch a lot of movies, and I think I was inspired
by all those films you see on flights and how things are not like that in real life.
Some movies that maybe has inspired me because they are my favorite movies is probably ‘Lost
in Translation,’ ‘Her’ or the one scene in 'Spiderman' that iconic kissing scene in
the rain.
So I co-wrote "Strangers" together with Martin Sjolie who I've done a lot of songs with.
So we were sitting there, talking and he started asking me like how...
What was going on in my life, if I had anything that I thought of and then I had this thing
that I hadn't been thinking about for a while and that was a previous session that was quite
difficult where I felt patronized.
He was like, “Alright, that's cool.
Maybe you should write about that.”
I was like, “Yeah alright.”
And then I started writing on my Mac and then I was starting to get more angry when I was
thinking about what actually happened and then by the end and then we got
the song.
It seems beautiful but like, it's kind of broken and maybe, it was, the thing was broken when it started
and the same thing with blindfolded minds collide.
I think those two lines, they're like, they're going together.
They are both blindfolded then you go into something without really knowing.
I guess like what you want and how's it's going to be.
So I think both the verse and the pre-chorus have a lot of references to both movies.
To me growing up doing theater and dancing.
For instances, "For when the curtain drops, our touch is just a touch."
With the curtain, you know when it drops, when the show is over.
You know when you see the end and everything it's like super happy time?
Like romantic comedy movies and then saying maybe our story is after the end and then
again like our and you and I type of thing is universal you and I and I think this is
something ... We try to write it as universal as possible in general so people can relate to it
It's when you get to that point in any type of relation where you just feel like you don't
know each other anymore or maybe you didn't know each other to begin with.
You thought you knew each other.
You thought you knew what this was.
People have a tendency of just remembering positive glossy memories instead of thinking
of all the like, everyday life memories and that colors a relation very easily.
When we watch movies, it kind of sets the bar higher for how things should be because
you've seen something so beautiful, fantastic, beautiful life and everything is like, beautiful,
wind in your hair, whatever, and it's not like that in reality.
When you look at a photo from your camera roll, in your iPhone or Android phone or
whatever, it's easy to just remember that moment but not like everything that was happening
around that photo.
And you have this very cozy cute photo of whatever, I don't know and it's easy to get
lost in that picture and you remember that more than everything around it.
To be honest, I love being alone.
It's very important for me to have some me time.
It’s that moment of realization where you figure out like, this is, we didn't get it.
This is not what we were hoping for it would be.