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ROLE MODEL made his Genius debut breaking down his song “High Hopes 3000.” The pop star talks about how the song came together, his ideal night out, what he thinks is the worst part of dating, why nothing good comes from desperation, and more!

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00:00I saw someone say it was like an anthem for male loneliness.
00:04Performing it is like the best part and I don't have to like think about the male loneliness
00:08part of it because now I just get to perform it in front of people and shake my little
00:14ass.
00:14Big fat ass, I mean.
00:22We got into the studio and we always start really kind of early, like 11am.
00:26Taylor would come in in the morning with his coffee and he would like sit at the piano
00:31right away and he started playing the chords or a version of those chords and I was like
00:36I end my day and we started jamming in the room.
00:40We had so many versions at the last minute we just switched something around in the chorus
00:45and then we were like this feels like the turbocharged version.
00:48This is like Hi-Hope 3000 and so I was like maybe we should call it that.
01:06Hey, when I'm in album mode my life is also very repetitive.
01:10There's not much of a social aspect when like every week Monday through Friday you are going
01:16to the studio from 11am to 9pm and then you're like dead and you don't.
01:21It is lonely.
01:22Brand new shirt, yes it's a little expensive, oh whatever works to put some joy in the engine.
01:30You know, I say anything to put some joy in the engine but I don't know how much that
01:35really helps.
01:36But sometimes you get like the perfect shirt and you're like put some joy in the engine.
01:39It's like retail therapy and I go out on the town trying to change my night and doing it
01:48over and over and over and over again, all hell.
01:53An ideal night for me would be like dinner with friends, paying as the food comes so you
02:00have to sit so long, maybe like one drink now and yeah, go home.
02:11I need some high hopes, lord knows I could use them.
02:15I know I'mma lose them when the wheels fall off.
02:18Hey, now, lend some independence, stuck inside the fences like a goddamn dog.
02:24I think the worst part about dating, every first date you're having to start from like ground
02:29zero.
02:30What do you do for work?
02:31Where are you from?
02:33Oh, what took you to LA?
02:34It's really annoying.
02:36At a certain point I'm just like, you just hit, it's just rock bottom.
02:40That's the point where I start Googling adoption places for dogs and stuff and I'm like, I need
02:45something.
02:45Long nights, heavy feelings, they say I'm unappealing when I shoot my shot.
02:51Come here honey, show me how to do it.
02:54Does love come around or does one come around to it?
02:58Oh yeah.
02:58Yeah.
02:59I think I was eager in kind of a pathetic way to find love and I think when you are
03:08that
03:08eager, you're kind of missing the plot a little bit and I think good things will find you.
03:15I don't think anything good comes from being desperate because then you're going to be blinded
03:18a little bit.
03:20I get undressed in the arms of a stranger, then second guess that all have sober behavior.
03:27Feeling like you have a girlfriend or something or a partner for like one night is kind of
03:33romantic.
03:33romantic.
03:34But also if you're waking up in the morning and you're second guessing, I mean that hurts
03:38a little bit.
03:39But I think you just have to go into those things knowing that maybe this person's a
03:43band-aid and not your love for life.
03:46I don't know.
03:47Do I really, do I really believe that someone could change my life?
03:51I'm doing it over and over and over and over again.
03:57Where does it end?
03:58Where does it end?
03:58When I was making the album, it was just like a lot of back and forth of like, do I
04:03know
04:04best?
04:05Is there like something within me that I need to fix myself and then go put myself out there?
04:14Or will putting myself out there fix whatever?
04:18It's like, you know, who knows?
04:20That one I don't have an answer for.
04:23Woo, talking about hi, hi.
04:26Hopes, hopes.
04:28Lord knows I could use them.
04:29I know I'mma lose them when the wheels fall off.
04:32Hey, hey.
04:33Now, now.
04:34Lend some independence.
04:36Stuck inside the fences like a goddamn dog.
04:39Okay now.
04:39The bridge is really fun.
04:41I've never made anything like that.
04:42This was like musical and like fun and loose, but still like pop feeling, but also like touches
04:51of country.
04:51It was like this perfect cocktail of everything I love.
04:56I think that challenge of yes, on paper, these songs can be pretty depressing, but sonically
05:06like distracting people from that is like the goal.
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