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My Life In 35 Songs, Track 14: “Crashin” by Jack’s Mannequin

My Life in 35 Songs
Craig Manning

Even if your voice comes back again, maybe there’ll be no one listening.

It was the only time in my life that I wanted summer to end.

As a kid, you wish summers could last forever. You survey the horizon from the vantage point of mid-June and it feels like you’ve got an entire lifetime’s worth of school-free days ahead of you. Days to be lazy. Days to hang out with friends. Days to spend at the beach, or cruising around your neighborhood on bikes, refusing to waste even a second of daylight. And frankly, as a kid, summers kind of do last forever, simply because two and a half months is still such a significant amount of time in the grand scheme of how long you’ve been alive. Relative to everything else, summer is endless.

As a teenager, you still wish summers could last forever, but you also have enough perspective on time to know that they’ll end up passing you by so much faster than you think. You’ll blink twice and suddenly it will be mid-August, and you’ll be left wondering where all those weeks went. As the onslaught of September and the first day of school approaches, you cling to the remaining 80-degree days and the dwindling summer sunsets like they’re oxygen, because the thought of losing that freedom again and going back to the cloistered halls of your high school feels all wrong.

Growing up, I certainly never thought I’d find myself wishing for summer to hasten its demise, but that’s exactly where I found myself in late August of 2008. For one thing, I didn’t think I could stand one more second working my shitty summer job. But the bigger factor at play was her, the girl I’d spent the summer chasing. At so many moments throughout that season, amidst so many flirtations and longing glances and intoxicated evenings where we got a bit closer than we should have, I thought we were only a matter of time. She’d break up with her boyfriend and choose me, and we’d spend the summer together, making every moment count. But she didn’t break up with her boyfriend, and she didn’t choose me, and before I knew it, we’d run out of time.

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Andrew McMahon Talks New Song

Jason Tate

Andrew McMahon talks about the new single released today with People:

When I was thinking about it, I was like, “Do I really want to put out a Wilderness track in the middle of Something Corporate tour? This is such a beautiful moment.” And I immediately called Josh, who was the co-founder of Something Corporate. I was like, “I want to send you a song. What would you think about bringing the guys together and doing this as a collaboration?” He was so genuinely enthusiastic about it, and it was almost like a healing moment. Josh and I were, we’ve been best friends forever, but you end a band, you move on, you just don’t know where people stand, and he was so excited. So, I brought it to the other guys and merged this Wilderness-esque production with my original band playing all the instruments. It became this beautiful moment that felt, weirdly for the first time, all of these bands coming full circle and feeling like for once it’s one thing in one place.

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The song that’s going to come out next was actually written for the last Wilderness record. Luke, who produced and co-wrote “Death Grip” with me, wrote a few songs on my last album. This song was a part of the sessions that we did together. It was the first time where I was like, “This feels way more like a Something Corporate song than it does a Wilderness song that belongs on this record,” and so I always just had it in my back pocket.

And then when “Death Grip” came up, and the band seemed legit excited about getting back in the studio, I forwarded them this other track, and I was like, “This is just a demo, but if we’re all together, maybe we should try and cut another song,” and everybody raised their hand and was excited. So, we cut both in the same weekend. That song was written during the pandemic. There were lyric changes and things that I had to make to say, “No, let’s put this in the present universe.” But it’s really about just trying to source your happiness in the middle of a difficult moment. It’s called “Happy.”

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