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KennyHoopla reveals that the track is about “trying to sift through the process of grief for someone else. The right answer is that there is no right answer. Pain is fluid.”
The EP features new collaborators including Paramore drummer Zac Farro, who handled production across conditions of an orphan// and laid down some percussion in his Nashville studio for “orphan//.” “I brought him that song and he made it sound even more like an actual song,” Kenny marvels. Mike Elizondo (Turnstile, 50 Cent) also assisted in production duties during conditions of an orphan’s creative process, contributing to “mona lisa we miss you//” and “too many jocks turned rockstars//”: “He was like, ‘Send me all the ideas you have right now, whether you like them or not—and we’ll pick which ones I think have the most potential,” KennyHoopla explains.
“It's like I’m back on my feet for the first time and standing up to fight again,” he says. The EP title itself, is a gesture towards his mother’s passing three years ago, as well as ruminations on isolation and the act of finding yourself while also yearning to be supported. “I felt the strongest about the song from the start. It’s about wanting to pick someone up and help them—but there's no single way to grieve. There's no exact process for it, and sometimes the puzzle pieces just don’t fit. It has made me feel very depressed, but I have to somehow power through and be ready to fight again, even when your fucking arms are broken.”
“A lot of the time, I just feel very alone, like an orphan,” he adds. “I’m just trying to find a home, literally and metaphorically—as a person, and as someone in the music industry. I’m trying to see where I fit in, given the circumstances of life that everyone has to go through.”
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