- Why is now the right time
for 'Los Angeles' to be released to the world?
I feel like 'Los Angeles' means a lot to me, at least.
And I feel like now is the time to express yourself
and really say what's on your mind,
and I really wanted to present that with this EP.
In the years of playing and practicing
and making music and producing music,
I feel like I've really learned how
to really express myself
in how I'm feeling and the emotion of that through music.
How do I decide how many visuals will look like?
With "Home," I didn't really wanna be in it,
I really wanted to tell a story.
But with "Cellphones," I wanted to really put a music video
out that kind of conveys how the emotion of the song is.
I feel like it really matters
in terms of, like, what the song really is trying to say.
And I tried to really, kind of, incorporate that
into the music video.
The new EP will definitely have visuals for each song.
It's gonna be a vibe.
I love visuals, as, you know, this is, like - I'm so stoked.
Hey, I'm Scarypoolparty
and these are the top five things to know about me.
The first thing you should know
about Scarypoolparty is I was homeschooled,
if you couldn't tell.
[Laughs]
Since I was a kid through my teens.
You have a lot of time to be creative
and you have a lot of time
to really be where whoever you want to be,
you know what I mean?
Like, you don't really have
that perspective of going to a set schedule,
which is kind of crazy, you know?
But, as far as my own outlook on homeschooling,
it was kind of crazy
'cause I would always be jealous of people that would go
to public school and all that stuff, you know?
'Cause it's like, you know,
they have friends and they're all like, you know,
doing a lot of work and they have a schedule.
And I just wake up and I'm like, go outside,
look at bugs, go back inside, watch 'Digimon,'
and then just go to sleep and do it again.
And I'm like, you know,
I'll try to make a friend, you know,
I would say hi to somebody and they don't say hi back.
And I'm like, "Oh, alright."
[Laughs] Stuff like that.
Oh my god.
When they said lockdown, I was like, man,
I've been in lockdown since I was a kid.
I'm good.
I'm like, I'm fine.
[Laughs]
I love games.
I mean, being homeschooled didn't help that
'cause I was playing games, like, all the time,
but I'm, like, obsessed with 'Mario Kart.'
And so, I feel like anybody who wants to challenge me,
please step forward
and I'll show you what's up.
And I'll probably double lap you really fast.
The next thing you should know about me
as Scarypoolparty, I guess, would be
I like cooking.
That's pretty prevalent.
I learned from being homeschooled,
like my family cooks a lot and I would say one thing
that I do love cooking is,
which is probably not good for my health,
but I just love pizza.
I'm, like, always looking for new recipes on doughs and stuff.
So, the next thing that people would not know
about me is that I can probably
frontflip off of anything and never land it,
I was, like, thinking about this,
I ran out of things, I'm so boring.
All I do is watch anime, play games, make music,
and that's it.
I had to rethink my whole life when I thought
of these questions.
So, the last thing you should know
about me is I'm actually straight edge.
I've never had a sip of alcohol, nothing at all in my life.
It's just a personal thing, I guess.
People do question it all the time,
like, if I get offered,
like, a drink or something, I'm like, "Nah, I'm good.
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[Laughs]
The first major tour I was playing
with this band, and its name's Twin Shadow,
and the first, like, show we played,
I remember they were, like,
all, like, you know, just celebrating.
It was a fun time.
And they were like, "You drink?"
And I was like, "No."
And he's like, "What!"
[Laughs]
"I didn't know that." And I was like, "Ah, I don't know."
And he's like, "Oh well." That's it.
Usually it's that reaction.
It's just like, "Oh. Alright. Cool."
How I celebrate things really matters
'cause I celebrate it in a really, kind of nerdy way.
First of all, I love playing 'Apex,'
which is, you know, a game.
And I'm like, "Man, this is a great feeling.
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And then, I'll play some 'Mario Kart'.
And then, I'm like,
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Like, I wanna celebrate,
I'm gonna go to Costco and get some pizza,
and then, I'm gonna go get some bubble tea.
And so, then, that's how I celebrate me.
I'm very easy going.
If you put on a good movie and you're like,
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I'm like, "Yeah, let's watch this movie."
I'm like, "Dang, this is great."
[Laughs]