GoBoy is an #electropop / #neonpoppunk artist with songs about sex and killing people, yet #Spotify’s algorithm thinks GoBoy is a female Christian country artist. I don’t know how to change this.
All of us have been rejected at least once in our lives, right? Maybe some won’t admit it to themselves. My point of view on rejection as a whole is that it’s part of the human experience. Feel it, digest it, let it mutilate your personality, and move forward. When you’re dead, you won’t give a shit (I have more relatable stuff to say on this topic, but for this post I’ll leave it at that).
“Got Dumped” was GoBoy’s first song with a swear word. The swear words would increase throughout the remainder of this album until they reached an epic climax in song 23.
The songwriting was inspired by “Online Songs” by @blink182, a song that I used to play on loop as a child. If you listen to both songs, you’ll hear similarities… in fact, the original version of “Got Dumped” had a post-chorus section that sounded similar enough to the bridge in “Online Songs” that I got flack for it on MySpace. The post-chorus was eventually removed to put an end to the berating.
The reason “Online Songs” sounds a million times better is not just because it was recorded by the members of Blink-182, but because it was produced by #JerryFinn, a god of music production. RIP Jerry Finn. That guy produced the best sounding rock albums I’ve ever heard.
This is the first GoBoy song without a lofi effect on a majority of the vocals. Finally learned how to adjust the EQ, eliminating the need for the lofi plugin. Wouldn’t learn how to add vocal compression until song 9 though.
My brother and cousin sing in songs 5 - 7. We dabbled in the idea of forming a musical group called Fresh Like Whoa for a few months. The group had MySpace and Facebook pages, uploaded videos to YouTube, the whole shabang, but we ultimately broke up after a couple months. Similarly to today, I wanted 100% creative freedom, thus it was difficult for me to collaborate with a group (excerpt from post 5).
A messy high school breakup was being dealt with during the making of songs 5 - 8, something that many of you can relate to. Isn’t it fun? I’d estimate it took five years after the breakup for those emotions / tensions to reduce from boiling to room temperature (excerpt from post 5).
