HELLO VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEW SONG it’s called “Paranoid” and it’s one of my favourite PUP songs we’ve made in forever. We also made a kinda mental video for it, with the 5th member of PUP, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux.
THE VIDEO
The video is maybe the first of its kind, a crazy (semi) one-take practical lyric video. It’s a live PUP show, where every single lyric in the song is captured in real time by the camera on pieces of merch, the walls of the venue (thanks Sneaky Dees) and splatters of yucky stuff on the floor. I honestly can’t believe we pulled it off.
Jeremy directed it. He’s directed most of our videos. The first music video he ever directed was also the first music video we ever made, for our song Reservoir . We’ve been best friends ever since.
Shoutout the MVP, Nikolay (he shoots most of our videos with Jer). He was running around all day, swinging this massive camera all over the place for like 10 hours. What a monster.
Also wanna thank the 100-ish people who showed up to be in the video. So grateful to have you be a part of this thing! It was wonderful meeting you all. And thanks to Jer’s co-director Clem. Clem's gonna be around a lot. More on them later.
THE SONG
The lyrics are pretty self explanatory on this one, I don’t need to go deep. I will say though, that my favourite part of the song is in the breakdown, I’m screaming some pretty sad shit and Nestor just decided who cares I’m gonna play the melody for “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” over the vocals and that’s fucking funny. I laugh every time I hear it.
John Congleton, the legend (and our friend, nbd, we hang with legends all the time) produced and recorded this thing at his place in LA. I think I did 3 vocal takes. After the 3rd one I was like “man I sound BAD”, and he was like “perfect, I love when you sound bad, we’re keeping it”. I like John.
ALSO WE’RE DOING A HEADLINE TOUR IN UK / EUROPE THIS MAY
Click here for more info, it’ll tell you how to sign up for the artist presale.
OK THAT’S ALL THANK YOU SM HOPE YOU LIKE US.
xoxo Stefan and Nestor and Steve and Zack
Just want to acknowledge this is a weird day to put out new music. We tried to reschedule last minute, but these things are sometimes out of our hands. Our thoughts are with everyone in LA right now. Take care of each other <3.
Shitty PUP is best PUP. ❤️
I also love when you sound bad. magic in the slop.