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Sub Urban pulled up to Genius to break down his latest single, “Mercury.” The singer gets deep on the making of the record, talks about retraining his brain after TikTok fried it, opens up about his thoughts on love, the tech overload in today’s society, and why he disappeared for three years.

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00:00I retrained my brain to figure out how to make music for myself again, to actually make

00:07the music that I enjoyed, not the stuff that I thought was going to go popular

00:12after TikTok ruined fucking everything.

00:21I got this like brand new studio under my house and I opened myself to working with others,

00:27cooperating more using the space that I now have attained. I had someone working in the other room

00:33while me and another person were working in this room and we were all fucked on ketamine.

00:49The initial inspiration for Mercury was me going on my third tour ever and the love of my life

00:57who I got a green card for going back to her home. I think of love kind of as this helix

01:03sort of shape where you're doing a dance. It's kind of like when slugs are fucking this

01:08dance of push and pull, you need to constantly be in motion for that gravitational pull to even

01:15exist. And once one falls out of motion, then it gets torn.

01:20The idea of someone owning a replica of something that's just so desired like an artifact and then

01:39valuing that more than the original artifact is very ironic to me. And I feel like that can be found in

01:45the way we take pictures of each other when you're far apart from your lover. When love erodes into lust,

01:53I just want something to cure me and get rid of this poison in my body.

01:59I think this paints very much an imagery of sterile love. I'm offering you myself, my body,

02:15my love, and my time. But here you are wearing a glove so it never actually contacts the skin.

02:20In this moment, I love you. I won't let you down, let you down, let you down, let you down.

02:29Sometimes you need to leave in order to come back and see what went wrong. It's sort of like a plea

02:34of regret. Like, wait, wait for me. In this moment, I can love you. But it obviously implies temporally

02:41that you're only there for that moment. I promise that I won't let you down. I promise that I will

02:46give you what you need right now. There's too much technology. We've gotten to a point

03:03where it doesn't feel like progress anymore. And I feel like a lot of people share that opinion.

03:07Nobody has a semblance of privacy when they walk. That's the cost of freedom. Technology cannot be put

03:14back in the bag. Mercury represents spyware in the blood. Devil entendre is that. And this song

03:21makes me feel like the planet Mercury, which is the loneliest planet in the solar system.

03:26I'm what you wanted. I'm what you wanted me to be. I'm so exhausted. I can always pretend to be

03:42somebody else. I've climbed a fucking mountain to accomplish things that people can't even see

03:50be through my online persona, what they asked me to be, what they expected me to be. I rose to the occasion.

04:00It's getting to a point where my body is moving without me. I am so exhausted of my medical, my work,

04:10this relationship that I'm now asking who is it all for again.

04:33The throne is ego. This person hasn't earned this high place, this luxurious lifestyle.

04:38They feel entitled to it. They're not grateful for what I've given them. It's hilarious because

04:42I'm borrowing this lyric from a song I wrote in 2018, which were part of my demos that I shipped

04:48off to Warner before I got signed. And I never released that song, but I always loved the bridge

04:54of that song. Conspiracy of Ravens and murder of crows. It's just such strange words to like,

04:58you know, you got a bunch of bananas, right? A flock of geese. The fuck is a conspiracy of

05:04rapids and a murder of crows. That's British. Every time I hear this song, this purity washes over me.

05:12I'm not going to say it's the best song that I've ever made. I'm going to say that it's the song that

05:18identifies me suburban as a concept more than any other.

05:25I disappeared for three years after the last time I was here, I had like a prosthetic on and

05:30the red wig. And that was a fun time, but I hated my music so fucking much. Honestly,

05:37the song, when I listened to it sounds pathetic. I think that's kind of beautiful of an admittance

05:45because it is pathetic.

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