Dan Campbell of The Wonder Years talked with BrooklynVegan about their new album:
Dan also, as many bands who have been at it this long probably do, has been thinking about the day The Wonder Years just don’t get to do this anymore, and he addresses that on “Lost It In The Lights,” where he muses, “What if the magic’s gone? I guess I should be glad that there was any at all.” “I was thinking about career arcs,” Dan tells us. “It can be very easy to, and I have seen other artists almost get angry towards the end, or like bitter, as they realize their career is like winding down. And I was thinking about how I can’t be anything but grateful, because there’s just like, logically no reason this should’ve happened. There’s a lot of times where I’m like, ‘Is this real?’ Like is my fucking life real that I get to do this thing for a living, for all these people, to commiserate with all these people. So I wanted to make sure that I expressed that like, when the day comes that we don’t get to do that anymore, the only thing that I will feel towards those people is gratitude.”