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The Warning stopped by the Genius office to discuss their song “Kerosene.” The trio brought the energy as they broke down the inspiration behind the song’s fiery title, why the bridge is their favorite part of the track, how their love for K-pop influenced the record, and much more.

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00:00Originally, we had spit gasoline.
00:02We were like, it's too normal.
00:04It was like, it's too on the nose.
00:05We needed to be quirky with it.
00:07What's near gasoline, what would have the same effect as gasoline?
00:11Kerosene!
00:12It sounds cooler.
00:13It does.
00:21Kerosene, we wrote it with the mentality of making a fun rock song.
00:26We wanted to make like a bratty sassy song.
00:28Let's make a song that you could do your makeup to, that you can just like feel pumped
00:32up to go out and experience a day.
00:46I think we were literally setting up like the beginning of a movie in our heads.
00:51I think we had Mean Girls in our heads.
00:54A Rage Notebook just kind of like saying all these things.
01:09Kindness is the easiest thing to do, but for some reason, some people find it really hard
01:16to do like the basic, the bare minimum.
01:19You could just say hi to me, but you don't.
01:22And if you do, it's because other people are watching.
01:23It's like that kind of thing that you wouldn't normally have to think about being kind or nice
01:28to somebody.
01:28But this person that we're talking about in the song, it's just this super difficult thing
01:33for them because they just don't have a kind bone in their body.
01:49I think we wanted to be very standoffish.
01:52Yeah, very confrontational.
01:53It's like if we had that person in front of us, it would be like, just say it.
01:57Say it to my face.
01:58It's like that.
01:59Because I feel like some people have the power to do it when it's anonymous or whatever,
02:06especially nowadays with social media.
02:08It's like, if you want to say something, I dare you to say it right in front of me and
02:12look in my eyes when you do.
02:13Just go for it.
02:40Like in a certain way, you're trying to call them out that I see the real you.
02:45I know you want to say those things.
02:47Like say what you mean and spit kerosene.
02:49If you're going to say something and you know it will be mean, just say it with your chest.
02:54Spit kerosene and it will light on fire.
02:56But just know that your words do have that effect and stand by them.
03:11Verse two is the evolution of this story where we already confronted this person.
03:15You're like, I know you're obsessed with me.
03:17I know you're checking my stats on Instagram.
03:20You're checking my likes, my comments, and you want to beat me so bad.
03:25But you will never say it at anybody.
03:26Like it's right there.
03:27It's so obvious.
03:28And I see it.
03:30I see you.
03:43So the bridge, our favorite part.
03:46We're like, we want something really fun, something really light and chanty.
03:50So we're like, what would we want people to sing back?
03:53Like when we wrote the first draft of that bridge, every single man in our team, they
03:57were like, do you want to say jeans?
04:00Can you copy my jeans?
04:02Like it's too girly.
04:03And we're like, that's the point.
04:06But all the girlies were like, that's the line.
04:09That's the point.
04:10It makes it fun.
04:10And it sends the message across that.
04:12It's not that deep.
04:26The outro is just where I scream at you and just kind of want to scare you off.
04:31But honestly, I love this part because it's a little bit more of the intensity that we
04:36usually have in our music.
04:37So this last outro, I feel like we just let loose for sure.
04:41I'm almost out of breath by that point, live.
04:44But it just makes it a lot more intense because I get like, oh, red.
04:48And it's just like screaming at everyone.
04:50I try to make eye contact with someone as well and just be like, yes, you.
04:57Superhuman by NCT has the best bridge I have ever heard.
05:02I think you can see our love for K-pop in everything in this song.
05:06The way that it's fun, it doesn't take itself too seriously sometimes.
05:10And also the video, the styling, the branding of everything.
05:14We were just like, if we were pop stars who played rock, what would we do?
05:18And it was just very fun to explore that area because we're such huge fans of the genre.
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