hi !!! ceres introduced me to your music (she played me greenish yellow earlier today) and oh my golly gosh it’s so peak! she’d talked about it a fair bit but i’ve not had the time to listen so far! anyhoo! very cool music!
i am curious is there a reason behind the lyrical distinction with orange-greenish crayon and the song name greenish yellow? also i do find it intriguing how in the lyrics its orange greenish crayons (adjective, adverb, noun) which makes sense to me but the title is the adverb then the adjective, which feels less intuitive to me, especially since green comes after yellow in the rainbow. maybe all of this was subconscious but just curious!!!!
ty for reading and answering (hopefully)
funny enough, i was actually just talking to ceres about this song last night since she came to my live show. Big shoutout to her for transcribing the lyrics to all my videos in the comments btw, that always made me feel like a legit musician.
Greenish-yellow was written during a 2 and a half month time period where i wasn't working or doing anything else really, and it wasn't uncommon for me during this time to just not leave the house for a few days on end. I'd often drink or do other irresponsible stuff to pass the time, but i was just generally really paranoid about the way i was feeling, my life, the state of the world and everything else throughout all this. A lot of the time id lose track of what day it was or forget to talk to people as a result of just not really having a schedule or any dire responsibilities, so i guess the song was just my attempt to sort of capture that feeling. The lyrics are often mismatched or conflicting on purpose to represent that overbearing sense of confusion caused by all that, but the colors green and orange were just the colors of what i was medicated with at the time (or yellow. sometimes when i got luvox it was yellow, sometimes it was orange). I had also just started reading House of Leaves at the time so that definitely inspired the chorus.
this was all kept very vague and symbolic in the lyrics on purpose, of course. I'm a really big fan of using songs to talk about issues/things im feeling without actually, explicitly talking about them (and of course im not sharing everything that that song means to me in this answer lol). My goal was definitely more to capture a vibe than tell any sort of story, so you're encouraged to prescribe your own meaning to any of those lyrics and how they might resonate with things youve experienced/felt in your own life (look at me telling you how to consume art like you dont already know, sorry about that lmao).
And hey thanks for checking out my music, im glad you enjoyed it!
