"21 Underage Questions" Backstory
In early 2017, I had recently heard "21 Questions" by Waterparks after tuning in to some guest DJ and checking out their music. I was also listening to Top 20 Country Charts.
Eventually, when I was humming "21 Questions", I forgot its chorus and thought of some other melody line. On 8 Feb 2017, I realized that it was "Underage" by Kelsea Ballerini.
I finally got around to arranging it in July 2018, just in time for 1-year anniversary (11 August) of official music video for "21 Questions". However, that release date never happened, as those demos were worse and my perfectionism kicked in.
In my first day of class later that week, we did some activity where someone said that 11 August was relevant to him, and it reminded me of my recent minor "failure" to make (unoriginal) music.
Later on, I became closer friends with this person, but one awkward misunderstanding made him ignore me over break, which I did not quite pick up on. I was also stressed about what to get my friends for "Christmas" break, or rather our winter holiday, due to my aforementioned perfectionism.
We returned to school by 8 Jan, and he confronted me about supposed gossip, which is when I realized his misinterpretation of my description.
This is what I said when sending him this.
I actually wanted to try to make my recording decent so that it could serve for "gift" purposes (even though this perfectionism made me unable to send it during holiday season), but I gave up today, as I have been sick for these last few days, and I am only sending this to you, so I have no reason to reach for publishable standards.
I also sent it to one of my more musically talented friends on 30 January, three months after my first-promised date: 30 October, two years after official audio was released to YouTube.
They both liked it, with slight critiques from latter kid, but overall, it was favorable. Maybe not favorable enough to publicize, but that might change.
I chose 8 August 2019 (barely scraping by in most time zones).
- 2.5 years after this idea
- 1 year after arrangement was finished
- 7 months after I sent demos to my two wonderful friends
Also, that "R. Kelly" line in "Underage" is so much more awkward now that scandals have blown up after so many years, am I right?
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