00:00Everybody wanted to see Angel in drag finally.
00:02They were so happy it happened.
00:04I was really happy it happened.
00:06It was a matter of time.
00:07Very much so, yeah.
00:14What's really interesting about Losing Streak
00:17is it comes on the heels of another song
00:20where a character who Angel is really establishing
00:24a rapport with, who's named Husk,
00:26is falling off the wagon
00:28and really kind of hitting rock bottom.
00:30So Losing Streak is in many ways
00:33sort of the other half of that,
00:35where Husk is in a pit and all of a sudden
00:39here is Angel Dust looking like an angel,
00:42sounding like an angel.
00:45It's been so very long
00:49since Lady Luck kissed you.
00:52Still you listen for her song
00:56and pray that she missed you.
00:59One of the recurring pieces of symbology in this song
01:05is this idea of Angel Dust as Lady Luck.
01:09There are so many musicals and pieces of music
01:12that talk about Lady Luck as a person.
01:15You've got stuff from like Guys and Dolls,
01:16Frank Sinatra, and we wanted to lean into that vibe,
01:20especially with that much more throwback sound
01:23that the song has.
01:25Really, that first chunk exists to create this parallel
01:28between these gamblers wanting Lady Luck
01:32and all of these people here wanting Angel Dust
01:35and playing with that idea of you have temptation for me,
01:40but that's because you have temptation for winning,
01:44for any of that, any quick, cheap dopamine hit.
01:48Dead inside, cause you know it's all pretend.
01:55Close your eyes, cause you're going off the deep end again.
02:01Everybody's wanting something.
02:03Everybody's basing their happiness or their joy off of external factors
02:08and external gratifications like, what can I get, what can I get?
02:11Can I gamble and win big?
02:14Like, I want Angel, I want Angel to be mine.
02:18When you do get what you want, oftentimes in gambling,
02:22you're just going to want more.
02:24And it's not actually going to make you happy.
02:28You're living for the rush, for that royal flush,
02:33but you take what you can get.
02:36You play your final ace for a pretty face.
02:41Tastes like scotch and cigarettes.
02:45Part of our process too, was we had listened to, ages ago,
02:50a bunch of old demos that Blake had made and put online.
02:53And so we already knew you had this thing in you,
02:57this sort of like R and B crooner vibe,
03:00just waiting to get let out.
03:02And so that was something that we were really excited to do,
03:05where we wanted something to live in that zone.
03:07We wanted it to live highly in your falsetto.
03:10You were an influence musically on the way we wrote this song.
03:14So crazy. I love that.
03:15And you can't help falling, going all in,
03:20though your odds are bleak,
03:23till you break your losing streak.
03:31This pursuit of cheap thrills
03:33is coming at the expense of greater fulfillment.
03:37But these are people who are just so hooked.
03:40They can't, they can't help it.
03:42It's, it's what they're living for.
03:43I mean, it's a room full of people
03:45who are buying into a delusion and they know it,
03:48but they can't help, but do it anyway.
03:55I can't even remember the initial riff that we wrote
03:59because yours is so strong and it's just like,
04:02that's what sticks in my head.
04:04Now that riff in tiny little subtle ways
04:08is kind of in free time.
04:09And it's one of those things in your performance
04:11that is so subtle, but so impactful
04:14because by being a little behind the beat,
04:18it feels drowsy, it feels boozy,
04:21but it also feels hypnotic.
04:22This is kind of a hypnosis number in many ways,
04:26where you're just enchanting this room full of people.
04:30You're all living for the rush, for that royal flush,
04:34but the next best thing we'll do.
04:38You wanna spend your chips on these rosy lips,
04:42trying to get me next to you.
04:47The second refrain starts with a vocal ad lib,
04:51rather than ending that phrase with one,
04:54which is what you would do more conventionally.
04:56I mean, more conventionally,
04:57if you were to add a little riff
04:58to you're living for the rush,
04:59you go, you're living for the rush.
05:02Like you would add something at the end,
05:04rather than you're living for the rush.
05:06Just to do it right at the beginning,
05:08already creates this added like,
05:10let me lean forward in my seat,
05:12kind of moment.
05:13Cause you can't help needing to believe in finding
05:19what you seek till you break your losing.
05:27Good luck out there, boys.
05:29Not having streak at the end is also, I think,
05:33really important to the character storytelling
05:37of what this song is because it is an assertion
05:41that Angel Dust is in control in this moment.
05:43Angel Dust does not owe people finishing this phrase.
05:47The big ending.
05:48Yeah.
05:48You don't owe people completion.
05:51You are in charge of that.
05:52Asserting that makes Angel Dust feel so self-possessed
05:57and powerful in that moment in the song.
06:00It's very sexy.
06:01It is very sexy.
06:05My favorite part of the song is the first verse.
06:08Praying that Lady Luck missed you.
06:10And especially coming hot off the heels
06:11of the piano like intro too.
06:14It's so gorgeous.
06:15It's so mysterious.
06:15And you just feel honestly like you're in a completely
06:20different world.
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