[0:06]I think Band-Aids was figuring out how to expand my production. I think skeletons had really good ideas but like, you know, very amateur execution.
[0:16]And Band-Aids was just kind of the next like step into that and always also it was all just a progression.
[0:28]I was making Band-Aids while on the Skeletons tour. Of course, my management, my label had all of the demos, but
[0:36]I never felt like there was anything that was really convincing to me to release quite yet. They thought otherwise.
[0:45]That was the first time I'd ever gotten any kind of pushback on like a deadline.
[0:50]There was a lot of pressure because Band-Aids was the first record that I had made while being signed.
[0:55]Where skeletons was made before. And maybe that's why I felt like things weren't ready.
[1:02]Like I I now had to concoct something that was going to be a hit immediately or or blow up immediately to help with my imposter syndrome.
[1:21]They pressured me to release Band-Aids before I thought it was ready. But Band-Aids ended up being a record that really resonated with the fans and
[1:28]there is a testament to uh trusting in the ears of the people that surround you.
[1:34]The first visual introduction to Band-Aids was a music video that we shot for right here.
[1:40]And uh this was actually shot while we were on the Skeletons tour when we were in New York.
[1:54]I just remember thinking my head that I really wanted like a phone booth like picture.
[1:59]Kenji and I were really into like static wide shots at the time.
[2:05]They were actually like New York was in the process of eliminating all the phone booths that existed. So
[2:12]Um they were like I think five or six left. We found the closest one to our hotel or like Airbnb.
