Wiz comes in: intoxicated and faded
I'm in the club, barely made it We met in the studio in LA and just kind of
smoked some weed out of an apple bong that we made together and then he just did his
thing.
He’s like me, he has his pen and paper and writing his stuff
I was like, “Whatever you’re feeling, I don’t want to like ‘Well what are you
really saying there?’”
I felt I wanted him to do his take on it.
“Influence” I wrote after my vocal chord surgery which was in January last year.
For me as a singer, I don’t think I realize how much I need this until that happened to
me.
Tt was after two months of going out of my mind at home cause you can barely speak, you
can't be in loud environments so basically I was locked in my apartment for a few months
but once I got back out and I could sing again it was just the most amazing feeling and my
voice was just so light and bright and I could like hit any note.
It was amazing but I didn’t really have that much control of it.
So the Struts kept sending me little track ideas and same thing as with “Cool Girl,”
they sent me kind of the bassline and the chords and the vibe.
I was very much like, I want to go minimal techno.
Kind of like aggressive with my pop melodies and lyrics.
But kind of like tie it in with tight but aggressive.
“First line, take mine I’m fine as fuck” is obviously it’s the first line of the
song and bluntly it’s kind like you're sharing the love.
You’re sharing the influence.
The drugs.
Cause it’s all about making you feel your best.
And recreational enhancing the night and the emotions.
I have a
lot of nights where I’m in just the best high, I love everyone around me and I think
you can...I’ve gone pretty far in experiencing that love for people just saying all this
stuff and you kind of have to own up to that the next day and take it back.
But that’s what I’m kind of owning up to I guess in the chorus but also saying a
little bit of you know, maybe don’t believe me after looking into my eyes, after a night
like that.
And just being honest about not being honest.
It’s about a
very specific moment with a person that was just...when you kind of feel that you’re
out of your own body, the room is kind of moving on it’s own.
In this particular case, it was somebody I was really in love with and just one of those
beautiful moments that you kiss and you kind of forget everyone else is around you and
guess go a little bit further than you should in that moment but it’s just the ultimate
high.
this where Jacob, one of the Struts, was kind of like pacing around the room while we were
recording the rest of the vocals and he just comes out and is like, “What about something
like de de,” and I’m like “What do you mean?”
And it’s just like “de de.
Just that.
That note just fits there.”
And were like, “Yeah it sounds really awesome.
It brings it to the next level where we want it to go.”
And to me the “boy meets boy meets girl this is the best place of the world,” is
kind of how I feel about those I guess raves and underground clubs, everyone is welcome,
the way that they are and anyone can meet anybody and I’ve heard a lot of times people
say, “boy meets girl, girl meets boy, they fall in love,” and I just kind of wanted
to twist it in a way.
Boy meets a boy that meets a girl that meets a girl.
So yeah, everyone is included.