Especially for me, not having put out music in three or four years and the amount of people that reached out to me. You’re seeing the DMs, and you’re getting text messages about how these songs are resonating with people. It’s like, “Well, what do we do next?”īut at the same time, you’re seeing the tweets. And then you put it out, and you’re just sitting back at home because everything is fucking closed. It’s bittersweet because we worked so hard on this body of work, and the anticipation was so high for us. Usually we would have put this record out, and Nick and I would have packed our things up and been on the road for three, four months. MILLS : I don’t think we really had any expectations because it is the fucking weirdest time to drop an album. How do you feel the album has gone over since the October release? Is it what you’ve hoped? I think just having this thing end with a weird “aha” moment is going to make people really gravitate toward the video and hopefully watch it again. gives it that rough, edgy, badass ending to this video. NICK GROSS : The heart piece is the coolest part of the video to me.
She just knocked it out of the park, and she was very specific and collaborative at the same time. It was cool because with a song like “Jessica,” to have that female perspective on what a video would look and feel like. We loved her reel, and we loved what she brought to the project. And it was the first time that we’ve done a music video directed by a woman. MILLS : We got to work with this incredible director, Effy. And whose idea was that heart prop in the video? How do you bounce around these visual elements? When we put that in the treatment, we just thought it worked. We really had nothing else to do but sit in a room and make music together. Some lonely kids stuck in the West Coast with nothing else to do, which is literally how we felt making the record. And it’s paying homage to where it all began for us. And so it was cool to bring it back to where it all began for us, where it’s really just like a couple of friends with a shitty garage trying to do something. We didn’t start together, but we were both doing the same thing, just in different places. Did you try to think back to some of the visuals you grew up on for this video as well?
” I was like, “Yo, that’d be sick for us to have a song like that.” The garage-band backdrop in this video is something we haven’t seen a lot of recently. And I was like, “Yo, I’ve never written a song with a girl’s name in it.” I thought back to the bands that I was super into when I was a teenager-like Forever The Sickest Kids had that song “ Hey Brittany. And we’re like, “What is this missing?” And we wanted something a little more uptempo, a little faster. We had a bulk of the record done, and we were listening through everything that we had recorded. TRAVIS MILLS : I think “Jessica” came toward the end of the record, to be honest.
Where and when did the idea for “Jessica” come to life? I’d imagine it was during those lockdown studio sessions you shared for the record. The pop-punk duo caught up with Alternative Press to discuss their new video, fan reactions to their new record and their recent livestream show from Los Angeles’ The Roxy Theatre. And its video, directed by Effy Kawira, is premiering today exclusively on Alternative Press. While the rhyming would’ve admittedly been tough with the supermodel’s name, the guys instead landed on the track title “Jessica.” The high-energy song comes from their latest self-titled album, released in October.
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