A younger version of myself would've been very keen on explaining the exact message I wanted to get across with a song or the specific events that inspired it. These days the idea of spelling out the intentions behind my lyrical content seems a bit dirty. I may write these songs but my views on what they mean changes from day to day so I don't feel qualified to say for sure what they're about. I think I've come to a place as both a producer and consumer where I would rather leave things open for interpretation. With that said, there are other aspects of my single that I'm more than happy to explore and expand upon.

I was excited for this song because it's unlike anything I had written before in a sonic or structural sense. The sonic progression of the song came about very naturally and in the moment. If I had taken the time to think it out and said to myself "Let's do a kind of indie acapella thing, then do a hip hop vibe, straight into a big rock chorus, and then a psychedelic fade out" I don't know that I would've bothered just because of how it sounds on paper. I really liked that it wasn't the lyrics that were constantly changing but rather the mood of the music underneath them. I was infatuated with the idea that identical lyrics could have a completely different effect depending on the musical context they're presented in. In hindsight that was something I really explored throughout the course of this album.

My recollection of the writing process for most of my new songs is a bit hazy to say the least, but if I remember correctly "Made In America" was written and demoed out within a day. The one clear memory I have of this one was when I was working on the intro in the living room of my old place. I knew I wanted to set the tone of the song immediately so I decided I was going to try screaming into the computer microphone to get a really distorted sound. Once all my roommates left I spent half an hour going between screaming into my laptop to laughing hysterically at the dog who was freaking out on the other side of the room.