INSIGHT Magazine May 2015 | Page 13

kid brother that only likes sh***y metalcore bands, stubborn scene kids to people like me, average joes. I want everybody to be able to take something away from it. Beach Party was my life and it was coming to an end. I had to push myself to stay out of a dark place. Some of the songs are pretty intense. “Bonfire,” the Childish Gambino track, that’s pretty heavy. Why’d you end up calling the overall mixtape “Golden Giraffe” and leading off with humor instead of pushing intensity? I was overthinking the title, I was talking to my producer, Jesse, about it. I was going to go with “Feeling Good.” He was like, “That’s okay, )