letter 005: striptease
dear junk mail club,
wishing all the moms out there a happy mother’s day!
i have to start this letter by saying thank you. “striptease” hit 10,000,000 plays and that is a number that is hard to conceive. i’m not sure how to put my gratification into words. truthfully i didn’t think that song would grow to that size, i nearly didn’t release it. i wouldn’t have released it if i didn’t make carwash.
you guys get first viewing...here is the video for “striptease”
there were hundreds of submissions and i did my best to fit everyone i could. i apologize if your clip didn’t make it :( seeing all these videos and editing this made me so happy.
i made “striptease” in the summer of 2019 right after i completed making the Limbo EP, so everything felt complete. there was no more expectation. summer was coming to an end, and i was about to move away for college. i think i just wanted to make something that felt free like i did that summer, somewhat naive and careless. the chorus part “on and on, like you were my first love…” was the original idea. i remember looping those 8 bars wondering if i would ever be able to flesh it out into a full song. a lot of my favorite hooks never make it into full songs.
i apologize it has been quite a bit since i put out a letter. this one is quite short and sweet. i am just getting past finals week and schoolwork got a bit crowded. i also have been working everyday on the preproduction for the movie i keep talking about without actually saying anything about it. lol. we are planning to shoot the movie next week, but i still don’t have the full cast! it is a wild process that i will elaborate about more once it is over. lots and lots of moving parts, but i keep telling myself —
“it’s going to work out in the end.”
onwards,
garrett