- "ipad" is kind of a return to,
I think the sound that we're most known for.
I like to think it's elevated and sounds very 2022,
but it kind of gives you that nostalgic Chainsmokers sound
and our fans definitely let us know that,
which is just amazing to see to put out something
that they're like, "Yes, we love when you guys do this!"
I was in a situation where I didn't feel
like I had anybody to talk to about how I was feeling,
one with the person that I was in this relationship with
and my friends, 'cause they were tired of hearing about it,
and I wrote this song as kind of therapy.
You know, I'm going through your iPad
looking to see if you're talking to somebody else
the way that we used to talk.
So it's kind of at this point
where you kind of maybe both recognize
that it's not working.
A lot of the song is remembering
how much weight a certain situation could have at one point,
and then, a year later you don't even know them anymore.
You don't know what they're doing.
You don't feel anything, and they're a stranger again.
In LA you see a lot of people get lost in the sauce.
This is a really fun place,
and if you don't take the whole thing personally
you can really enjoy going out
and having a superficially fun time.
And there are great people here too,
but there's a lot of people that are just,
they're obsessed with being famous,
and I guess in this case, you're like,
"Oh, I see you're hanging out with that superficial scene
"and I really know who you are,
"but you're kind of like lost in that now I see."
Yeah, the line,
"Isn't it strange that we're strangers again"
is just a fun thing that you'd probably see
on some Tumblr page (laughs) or whatever.
What it stands for, I think,
is just a really compelling concept to write a song around,
so when we had that first line, I was like,
"This is the one I'm gonna use that line for."
"A ship I pass on summer nights"
comes from the expression, "two ships passing in the night,"
people that you just have a few words with,
but you don't actually know,
and also has ship like relationship in there too.
There's a little more (laughs) to grab onto, I guess.
And that turns into "turn into a gaslight kerosene,
"love that felt like 17, hurt me till I feel alive."
So we went from this person
like, "Yeah, I don't really know what your deal is,"
to like, "Holy shit,
"this has turned to something super heavy."
This gets a little bit more literal
after the metaphorical bit before this.
"Swear to God, do you call him?"
And that refers to the first line
of, "I'm looking for something that I used to have,"
like are you now, now you see that person
that I was worried about, you know?
I like the bridge of this song,
because there's so much tension
in the first and second verse,
and I kind of seem like I'm pissed off,
but I don't wanna end the song like that,
and that's not the emotion of this album.
It's more of being like accepting the way things are
and looking at everything happened for a reason,
and I'm not upset.
We were better as friends,
and I had to let go so I knew how to start over.
It's just strange, looking back on,
like you know how intense this relationship was at one point
and how much it weighed on both of us,
and now, I don't know what you're doing
who you're hanging out with, but I hope you're good.