#yamnb day

"I thought while writing it that I was going to come to some sort of grand realization, and that would be the album—the album would end with me figuring out my life and having this greater understanding of myself and generally being happy. In reality though, I think this first album is more a collection of musings, a collection of experiences and my thoughts on them in hindsight. It’s about how I’ve grown up through my relationships with different people. I’ve always been quite a solitary person, so maybe that realization was less about who I am as a person, but more about how I’ve grown to understand the importance of having other people in my life. The first track is very much about me and my goals, whereas the last song on the album is like, “We’ve gotta stick together.” If we’re alike, we’ve gotta stick together and fight against people that don’t want us to live." - Raleigh Ritchie on his album "You're a Man Now, Boy" via The Hundreds

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"There's something dark about this song but I wanted to make sure that it also had a sense of humour. This whole album has a sense of humour to it—I don't take myself too seriously—and hopefully that came through. I initially looked at bringing in a feature to sing the chorus because I wasn't confident about my falsetto, but I think it works fine as it is. There's honesty in imperfection." - Raleigh Ritchie on "I Can Change" via Complex

"I like how sort of passive aggressive it sounded. I like the fact that it was an oxymoron to call someone a man and then undercut it with “boy.” It felt very true to how I felt. How I feel. I still feel like that. I think it’s about people expecting you to be an adult and people expecting you to be grown-up and not quite understanding what that means. I think that’s how quite a lot of people feel. It’s hard to navigate this world when there’s all these things we’re supposed to be by a certain age and things that we’re supposed to do by a certain age when actually, we all kind of still feel like kids. We’re the same people now that we were when we were 15." - Raleigh Ritchie via Billboard

Kinda wanna shout out this one too. Not sure if it comes under "music video" or "visualiser" or what, but it's one of my favourite things he's done. 💖

"For me, this song is about just saying 'fuck it!' If you love someone, romantically or otherwise, you just have to go for broke and take on the world. Nobody else will understand why or how you love somebody except you and that person. The album starts with 'me' and ends with 'we'."- Raleigh Ritchie on "The Last Romance" via Complex

"I opened the album with this, and actually opened my live shows with it on my last tour. This song takes a different tone from the rest of the album, with me talking about money, living forever, and ruling the world [laughs]. It's about that carefree ignorance you have at a certain point where you think you can take on anything, but then you wonder why people don't like you, and then realise it's not sustainable." - Raleigh Ritchie on Werld is Mine via Complex