It is chronological and in the order in which it happened in my life. Dan and I, like, sort of, like, after writing breakup songs and stuff, we, like, had the fun challenge of going back and like actually tweaking some of the love songs on the record and making them a little more honest and more sad and creepy. – Yeah, sure. Like the song “Purple” is, was originally a love song — – Which feels like a big turning point on the album. – Yes, it’s like six songs and it’s “Purple” and it’s like, that’s when, like, the doubt creeps in and then “The Cure,” it’s like you flip the record and it’s “The Cure” and the sort of like the unraveling, as we say, of, of this narrative. We’d already written like the first, like, maybe six songs of the record and right in the more, like, sad sort of decomposed songs on the record, we, we kind of like, postmortem kind of went in and changed things and sort of made it a whole body of work rather than, you know, like little moments. I was really inspired by just all of the ways in which love makes you insane and miserable. You know what I mean? I think that there’s a lot more — there’s a lot more to mine there than just like, “Yay! Like, oh my God — – Everything’s great. He’s so hot. He loves me.” I’ve never been a person who’s like, “I’m going to make a concept record. It’s all going to be this, and it’s going to, like, be this way and sound this way and look this way.” Like, I write songs to, like, process my feelings. So every day when I, like, come and, like, I sit at the piano or I get the guitar, I go to the studio. It’s like, what does — what is, like, burning in me to say right now?
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