Paste

There is an interview, actually two interview, two interviews.

There's one is a, uh, Songwriters on Process interview, and one is a Paste interview, which, uh, Patterson says that writing this song unlocked the whole album for him, which I think is interesting, so it feels like this is a, uh, uh, a pivotal song for the album.

He says that it came to him while the tour bus was stopped at a hotel.

They're walking to a Mexican restaurant by I-90 under a billboard sign for the Oasis Tanning Salon, and these are all specific images that show up in the first verse.

Why don't you take it away, and, uh, let's get, start talking about some songs on here?

Yeah.

Before I do that, I'm not gonna read this, but there was a, a, there was a Paste magazine article.

This was, uh, Jeffrey Himes.

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Um, there was one by Shad de Souza in The Guardian, "Indie Music Has Been Invaded by Fake Fans and Cynical Viral Campaigns." Uh, there was one by Grace Robbins Somerville for Paste Magazine, "Congratulations, You Discovered Digital Marketing," which clickbaited me because I was like, "What? TikTok, what? You should be angry." But actually, it turns out she is quite angry.

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Um, and then, uh, Eliza McLamb, uh, "Fake Fans," uh, an excellent Substack that went, ironically enough, quite viral-

... and in- and income.

Mm.

I mean, in the, in the Paste article, the anonymous music marketing professional, Laura, another anonymous source, uh, remains skeptical as to whether or not this kind of marketing even works.

Um, she says, "The interesting thing about Geese is that the streaming numbers are actually quite low.

Like, we've nev- we had never experienced that.

Like, you know, like we'd done s- headline dates throughout the East Coast, and there's a few spots, like, we could, we could reliably say that, "Yeah, we're gonna have a good chunk of friends in New York come see us or Philly or, you know, maybe Richmond," and it's like Richmond and Charlottesville, and then it's like, beyond that, it's like we're just throwing something at a wall and hoping it sticks, you know? So I think that that was the first marking of like, "Oh," like, "people heard this and are gonna come see us in these ran- you know, these not necessarily, like, A-market towns." Like, we played, like, Baltimore and Asbury Park and, um, State College, Pennsylvania, just places that weren't, uh, on the conventional, like, tour route, you know? And we, we felt super grateful just to see, uh, people supporting and say they heard it or saw it on, you know, Paste Magazine or just, you know, something cool like that, you know?

And now you've got this next run of shows coming up in October and November, where you're kinda going all over the East Coast and into the Midwest a little bit.

Yeah.

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A couple of notes.

Paste Magazine article, their take on it.

The story of a factory foreman.

I'm not sure where that comes from.

I like the arrangement.

But I was like, well, I didn't read the book, so I couldn't comment it.

But I did find also something from Paste.

And the gentleman's last name, I think it's Swedeland.

Yeah, and we keep it to 12 because we just, for one, we can't sit around and drink 30 beers, you know? There's a...

When Paste Magazine used to have an office in, I think it's Avondale Estates, Georgia-

Yeah

... down, down in that, uh, in that area, they used to do their tastings where they, you know, they, they do rounds.

I think that was for...

Was it for Paste? I should have noted that.

Uh, yeah, for, uh, Paste Magazine.

I wrote that about probably five or 10 years ago.

I don't know.

So, so yeah, I've, I've written for various Utah publications.

Yeah.

Um, and then I've written for Paste.

My number one is New Radicals with You Get What You Give.

After I had picked this tune just like a week earlier, something that gave me hope for rock journalism appeared in Paste Magazine, Nico Stratis of Paste Magazine.

said the breakaway single from the new radicals you get what you give is a power pop masterwork that is as big and bright and bold as its sunburst yellow album cover would have you believe if a song could be presented in technicolor the synesthesia of its promise would easily challenge the limits of whatever cheap speakers presented it It is also unimaginably earnest, with an opening call to arms to rally all who carry the dreamer's disease, a song that leads to inspirational posturing about just what is achievable once you know you have the music in you.

It is a song that is easily hated by bitter hearts because it is easy to hate the things that want to love us the most.

As many of you know, if I had to pick a favorite just because of the time that I became a fan and, you know, the era of the band that I first got accustomed to, it was Jason Newkid all the way.

But this is from Paste Magazine.

I can't believe that's still a thing.

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