glassanimals: for everyone asking me what tokyo drifting is about…..here is a short essay: first thing denzel asked me about my lyrics in tokyo drifting was “is this you flexing’?” and i said yeh it is…sort of. it’s like a sarcastic internal flex…me as a narrator taking the p*ss out of an extreme alter ego version of myself… ’wavey davey’. it’s a version of me that can do things i’m uncomfortable doing. wavey davey is like my messed up sasha fierce. he’s a geezer. a character from street fighter. he can dance. he parties like it’s 1999. he can take hits and he can fight everything the world throws at him. i think we all create that kinda character for ourselves to some extent. firstly we have to, to deal with sh*t. and then we have these curated versions of ourselves on the internet. edited, cool, distilled versions of us. all slightly super human, and ignoring all our vulnerabilities….but it’s not real, and it can drive you a bit mad bc you have to pretend life is always amazing and let’s be honest, sometimes life is sick but sometimes it isn’t.
tried to reflect all that in the production and sonics. it builds and builds and touches on some more hedonistic genres and then denzel launches in with his incredible confidence and swagger and his immaculate timing that wavey davey could only ever dream of having. it builds more until it all disintegrates into a detuned, wonky mess…the musical equivalent of an awkward skinny jew dweeb with moderately poor visual acuity. ie. me.
i said all that and then he said ‘cool that’s what i thought.’ any more questions? i will try to answer!
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