Cole Preston: ‘Are You Bored Yet?’
happened after my very good friend, Paul Chiba spilled a bunch of wine on my computer, had
all my demos on it and stuff.
But I was lucky enough to get a new computer because of Apple Care.
And then the first demo that like I put into my brand new Logic Pro X was the seedling
of like ‘Are You Bored Yet?’
And then these guys came over to my house when I was living at USC and we put it all
together.
Dylan Minnette: The sort of inner workings of your emotions and things you go through
in a relationship, especially as someone like I'm younger, you know?
As a young person, if you're in a very serious or kind of extensive relationship the kind
of thoughts that you go through are is that person bored, are they afraid that they're
missing out on things in their life?
Like if I’m I alone in this?
I'm sort of thinking that like.
If we extend this years and years and years, are we going to regret it if we end up breaking
up when we're like 28 years old?
It's those kinds of thoughts that I think you go through as an 18 to 20 year old in
a relationship.
That's sort of what the song is about in wondering if your partner, this other person, feels
the same way.
Cole Preston: If you imagine the scenario, literally, like I...
When I wrote these lyrics, I imagined a couple like laying in bed getting ready to fall asleep,
and one of them is like, “What's wrong?”
Other person is thinking and they don't really know what to say.
And, to me, they do know what they want to say but they're just going to lie until...
Just kind of shove those emotions, the general emotions of the feeling of the song, way deep
down because they don't want to cause problems and they're just confused.
Dylan Minnette: This relationship has already taken up a big amount of time, especially
for us being young and that's a big portion of our lives.
And, if this goes on and we don't have other experiences that we feel like we should have,
we eventually realize that we want those experiences and we end this further down the line and
we're farther into our life.
We feel like this was all a waste of time.
Cole Preston: I remember in my first few relationships, when it feels really intense, you feel really
in love with someone.
You know, when I was young, I would say, “Man, I wish we met when we were older.
Because then I wouldn't feel like...
I wished we met when we were 25 or I had my life more figured out or something.”
Which is really sweet.
That's a really beautiful sentiment.
But, it is that feeling of just like, “What am I doing?
I feel such strong love for this person, but it's just poor timing or something.”
Cole Preston: Stalling and then head start.
Like it kind of is contradicting itself.
So, it doesn't really...
It's like a weird paradoxical statement.
But, what it means to me, like when I was writing it, is that you have all these insecurities
in a young relationship about the future.
But, you can... and you stall it and you stall saying things and you stall ending it or whatever.
But, secretly, if you find yourself interested in somebody else at some point while you're
still with this other person, which is a very selfish thing to do, that'll make that process
of exposing whatever feelings to like let this person go.
And, you'll feel more comfortable in a relationship instead of just confronting your feelings
ahead of time on your own completely.
Like another relationship...like that’s the head start.
Someone else.
Someone new.
And then stalling, it’ll be possible because you already have something else in the works.
Dylan Minnette: It's like we could do this very mundane thing, or we could do this most
cliché like, romantic thing... no matter what, which is...
So, the mundane thing is stay at home.
Romantic thing, that we could do is watch the sunset.
I wanted that to be sort of a cliché right there, and I feel like, those two...
It's like, we could do whatever, but, I can't get this question off my brain.
Which is, “But I can't help from asking, are you bored yet?”
Dylan Minnette: I think that really, what this person is asking, in the song is what
he's not sure of, in himself.
Like, he's like, “I’m”...I think that, from my perspective, in the song, it's like,
“I'm feeling lonely.
I'm feeling bored.
I'm feeling nervous of the future.
I'm feeling this is nearing it's end.”
And, it's sort of like, “Are you feeling this way?”, and it's sort of, hoping that
they feel that way, too.
Because, it's like, “I really hope you feel this way, so, it's not just me, and I don't
have to keep pretending.”
Braeden Lemasters: To me that line means like you're already going to break up with this
person, regardless.
Like you're already so far gone.
Like, this is already over, so why keep going for six months more?
Cole Preston: I'm definitely in my relationships, of the past guilty of doing that.
Where, I project my own feelings onto somebody else.
Whatever, they are.
And, also, just being lazy, and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.
And, caring about someone, while simultaneously wanting out of it?
It's a weird juxtaposition of emotions.
Dylan Minnette: That line used to be, “Can't shut it out with a goodnight kiss.”
And then, Braeden was like, “Dude that line’s cheesy.
I don't like that line.
How about something you'd say, like, ‘Some shit or whatever.””
Like wasn't that your idea?
And I was like, “Ah, too young to think about all that shit?”
And then I liked that line so much more.
It was just Braeden thought my old line with bad.
So that's good.
It's true.
Cole Preston: We’re very honest with each other.
Braeden Lemasters: Tough love.
Tough love.