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"[[Mexican Fender]]" premiered on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show, as did many of the White Album singles, along with an interview with the band. In the interview, Rivers said that the original plan was to release the Black Album, but the sessions were producing songs that didn't fit his vision. Initially, these songs were set aside in a dropbox folder called "beach" until this folder started growing faster than the Black Album one did, and the album "really came together." However, he mentioned the album was not yet completed at the time it was announced. He also insisted that the Black Album is still coming and is "pretty much ready." He also noted he was trying hard not to use the word "girl" in his songs. | "[[Mexican Fender]]" premiered on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show, as did many of the White Album singles, along with an interview with the band. In the interview, Rivers said that the original plan was to release the Black Album, but the sessions were producing songs that didn't fit his vision. Initially, these songs were set aside in a dropbox folder called "beach" until this folder started growing faster than the Black Album one did, and the album "really came together." However, he mentioned the album was not yet completed at the time it was announced. He also insisted that the Black Album is still coming and is "pretty much ready." He also noted he was trying hard not to use the word "girl" in his songs. | ||
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the album writing process, Rivers said “when I’m writing a song, I’m age-agnostic. I have Dropbox folders full of MP3s and then a Google spreadsheet called ‘Parts’ that has countless ideas. I don’t even keep track of when they were written or what album they were written for, because it doesn’t matter.” He also mentions a spreadsheet titled "Lyrics" that as about 5,500 "really cool lines" organized by BPM, syllable count, and key. He explained “When I’m writing a song and I get stuck, instead of trying to force myself to feel inspired, I can just go into the spreadsheet and search. There are usually 10 to 15 options; I just try them out to see which ones work magically. I hire talented programmers to help me automatically tag the lines.” The article also states that Rivers is learning the programming language Python so that he can do more of the coding himself. | |||
Much like The White Album, the band members recorded their parts for Pacific Daydream separately and were almost never in the studio at the same time. Rivers told Entertainment Weekly that “they get to explore and do their thing without worrying about what I’m thinking. I’m invariably delighted when I hear the results.” | |||
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