Brandon, you're my favorite artist! You really healed me when I was my loneliest. Your lyrics filled voids in my soul that couldn't be understood by anyone else during those dark times, it's like how you sang and what you sang about could understand perfectly. I remember listening to "Wish You Were Here" so many times my friends got sick of it, but also knew anytime they'd listen to Incubus they'd think about me. Pink Floyd also wrote a song called "Wish You Were Here" and whenever the lyrics "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year. Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here" I always thought of me and my dad. He passed away when I was 7, I am currently 20 now. Those two songs mean a lot to me for similar and yet very different reasons. I saw you at Sick New World when you performed both your version and theirs. I remember me and my mom looking at each other when that happened as if he was there with us in spirit! I was so glad I got that tattoo of "Wish You Were Here" on me around some twisty mist looking art. It's so amazing to know someone who is as famous and loved as you also views/listens/loves music the same way as me. It gives me hope in my journey in the industry one day. I hope I am fortunate to come across someone as talented as you willing to share wisdom and guidance. You seem like such a humble down to earth person, which makes you an even better Artist. I hope you know how much your music and presence means to me, as you're my literal Idol! (not to geek out on you or anything) ha-ha. Hopefully I send this letter off to the right address for you to read more of what I have to say. Keep putting those feelings out there for your fans, we appreciate them more than you'll ever know! Best, Levi K.
Glad I came about this comment. Incubus just inherently hits so deep from the arrangement to the melodies, to the lyrical content. Sorry to hear about your dad. Wish You Were Here is a masterpiece. I have a similar feeling for Pardon Me on a personal level. I was at Sick New World too, and they were awesome! Even though this is very random, from fan to fan, I really appreciated reading your comment
@@joryhose4468 No, I’m glad you appreciate it! That’s something I want to do for people. I want to be able to write things people relate to and feel similar to. Especially to start those conversations and get the creative flow going. I love talking about the different interpretations to music everyone has, theirs something so unexplainably unique about it all. If I may, what’s your interpretation for “Pardon Me” also one of my favorites too.
@ levik5376 I’m in the same boat. I absolutely love understanding other’s experiences with music, and what they feel from it as well. Pardon Me is for me so impactful/meaningful for a couple reasons: 1. In terms of the instrumental arrangement, there’s something unexplainable about the beginning guitar swell in the studio version. I can’t describe it, but all I can do when Pardon Me first comes on and I hear the first swell is thinking of wide open space: like looking up at an open sky, looking out at a valley a the top of a mountain, or a vast desert. The guitar swell and the effects musically throughout the verses just take me to an ethereal place. 2. Lyrically, the meaning resonates with me prophetically. As a 22 year old (almost 23) with a lot going on in my personal life that has changed drastically year by year, the lyrics “a decade ago I never thought I would be 23 on the verge of spontaneous combustion woe as me” describes my lingering thoughts in a nutshell. ‘I’ve had enough of the world and its peoples mindless games’ is definitive of burnout for me, something I’ve been experiencing for a while now. 3. All in all, this song just spiritually removes me from the reality of space and time and allows my imagination to teleport to a place of releasing my inner most thoughts and imagining being in a place of utopia (like the settings I mentioned before). What’s your interpretation of Pardon Me?
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Enjoyed this interview. Can’t wait to get to the gallery while the exhibition is there.
Brandon, you're my favorite artist! You really healed me when I was my loneliest. Your lyrics filled voids in my soul that couldn't be understood by anyone else during those dark times, it's like how you sang and what you sang about could understand perfectly. I remember listening to "Wish You Were Here" so many times my friends got sick of it, but also knew anytime they'd listen to Incubus they'd think about me. Pink Floyd also wrote a song called "Wish You Were Here" and whenever the lyrics "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year. Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here" I always thought of me and my dad. He passed away when I was 7, I am currently 20 now. Those two songs mean a lot to me for similar and yet very different reasons. I saw you at Sick New World when you performed both your version and theirs. I remember me and my mom looking at each other when that happened as if he was there with us in spirit! I was so glad I got that tattoo of "Wish You Were Here" on me around some twisty mist looking art. It's so amazing to know someone who is as famous and loved as you also views/listens/loves music the same way as me. It gives me hope in my journey in the industry one day. I hope I am fortunate to come across someone as talented as you willing to share wisdom and guidance. You seem like such a humble down to earth person, which makes you an even better Artist. I hope you know how much your music and presence means to me, as you're my literal Idol! (not to geek out on you or anything) ha-ha. Hopefully I send this letter off to the right address for you to read more of what I have to say. Keep putting those feelings out there for your fans, we appreciate them more than you'll ever know!
Best, Levi K.
Glad I came about this comment. Incubus just inherently hits so deep from the arrangement to the melodies, to the lyrical content. Sorry to hear about your dad. Wish You Were Here is a masterpiece. I have a similar feeling for Pardon Me on a personal level. I was at Sick New World too, and they were awesome! Even though this is very random, from fan to fan, I really appreciated reading your comment
@@joryhose4468 No, I’m glad you appreciate it! That’s something I want to do for people. I want to be able to write things people relate to and feel similar to. Especially to start those conversations and get the creative flow going. I love talking about the different interpretations to music everyone has, theirs something so unexplainably unique about it all. If I may, what’s your interpretation for “Pardon Me” also one of my favorites too.
@ levik5376
I’m in the same boat. I absolutely love understanding other’s experiences with music, and what they feel from it as well. Pardon Me is for me so impactful/meaningful for a couple reasons:
1. In terms of the instrumental arrangement, there’s something unexplainable about the beginning guitar swell in the studio version. I can’t describe it, but all I can do when Pardon Me first comes on and I hear the first swell is thinking of wide open space: like looking up at an open sky, looking out at a valley a the top of a mountain, or a vast desert. The guitar swell and the effects musically throughout the verses just take me to an ethereal place.
2. Lyrically, the meaning resonates with me prophetically. As a 22 year old (almost 23) with a lot going on in my personal life that has changed drastically year by year, the lyrics “a decade ago I never thought I would be 23 on the verge of spontaneous combustion woe as me” describes my lingering thoughts in a nutshell. ‘I’ve had enough of the world and its peoples mindless games’ is definitive of burnout for me, something I’ve been experiencing for a while now.
3. All in all, this song just spiritually removes me from the reality of space and time and allows my imagination to teleport to a place of releasing my inner most thoughts and imagining being in a place of utopia (like the settings I mentioned before).
What’s your interpretation of Pardon Me?
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