I’ll try to avoid using “fun” to describe “fun.” as much as I can here, but I doubt I make it out without doing that at least once. When I sat down to start making this song, I had a goal in mind of making a song where I had to do as little singing as possible. I thought I’d accomplished that…

As usually happens when I try to make a song, the exact opposite of the goal I had in mind happens. This song probably has the shortest amount of time that I sing for out of any song I’ve released so far, and yet, somehow, it also took the most amount of time to record the vocals for. I blame myself for writing myself a falsetto.

Aside from the vocal, I really did just want to make something fun. The bass line that loops in the first half of the song came from me wanting to make something that sounded sort of Egyptian and like it belonged on a Justin Timberlake album from the early 2000’s.

I wanted something summery, danceable, laid back, and yet I still managed to make something where the appropriate cover art was me passed out on a floor. My personal favorite part of the song is the rain that kicks in right before the 2nd verse, and progressively gets louder from the end of the 2nd verse until the beat switch. While it’s getting louder, it’s also getting slightly more muted, and (hopefully) gives the feeling of the room the song is in flooding. Then as the water drains out and you enter the 2nd half of the song, that’s where you pick up with me in the position the cover art shows.

The lyrics post-beat switch are all just an accumulation of hangxiety thoughts that have crossed my brain at some point or another. I knew pretty early that I wasn’t going to do a music video for this song, but if there were to be one, it’d just be the dance club scene in the White Lotus Season 3. Anything I’d try to make would have just been a worse version of that.

Listen to “fun.” on Apple Music, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your music! :)

Behind the Song: fun.