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Every track on the album is about a dif- want to be is by accepting themselves and what the picture of that future is and they’re
ferent issue. “A lot of the songs on the first freeing themselves from any thought or so excited to move forward that they don’t
record were about overcoming a lot of self- fear of what would happen if they decided realise that sometimes moving forward in
doubt and then in this one it kind of takes it to be who they wanted to be. the wrong direction is worse than staying
more into the world stage and about wit- “‘Passengers’ is a bit global warming still and not going in a worse direction than
nessing things outside of myself and out- inspired. Basically, I got accelerated with you already are.
side of my own insecurities and my own the politics in the States as well about how “‘Brave II’ is kind of a take-off of ‘Brave
issues and how basically the world issues sometimes you feel like you’re just riding I’. As a band, terrorist attacks kind of hit
are affecting us. ‘Free Yourself’ is going along on this earth and we’re all passen- home in the last little bit. Not only with the
with that mindset of the first way to change gers on this earth and we have to take care Orlando shooting but with us playing in
your world is with yourself. I was very in- of what’s happening because sometimes it Paris a week after the Bataclan attacks and
spired by the transgender community actu- feels like it’s out of our control that we’re just the fact that it was almost scary for
ally, and the fact that the only way these just barrelling towards the future. And peo- some of the members of our touring parties
people can really become the person they ple don’t even know what that future is or and our group’s ideas that we were going
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