Motion City Soundtrack vertelt over “Everything Is Alright”

De heren van Motion City Soundtrack hebben het verhaal achter “Everything Is Alright” verteld in een recent interview. Dit nummer verscheen op het in 2005 uitgekomen album Commit This To Memory en is een samenwerking met Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump. Check hieronder wat de band over het nummer te zeggen heeft.

Is “Everything Is Alright” Motion City’s “Stairway To Heaven?”
I think so. It seems to be that [to] a lot of people who write messages to us and to me. I’ve been trying to attack an onset of social media sites responding to everyone who has ever written us a message of any kind. I finally caught up after about a year of working at it. A lot of the messages named that song in particular as helping them in some way. They heard the song and said having hardcore OCD [obsessive-compulsive disorder] or being bipolar or depressed or having someone’s parent die, they heard the song and it connected to them. To me, that is pretty profound; a lot of times I don’t know what to do with that information. I just wrote the song about me,and I don’t want to belittle any meaning it could have for anyone else. It was kind of… I don’t think the [phrase] “tongue-in-cheek” is correct, but it’s something where the verses are one thing and then the chorus is another, but it’s sort of like giving yourself a pep talk. That’s how I’ve always thought about it. Just the fact that nothing is all right. [Laughs.] You kind of have to look at yourself in the mirror and repeat the words to yourself until one day, eventually, you’re okay.

Is the chorus essentially you talking to yourself?
Yeah, I guess initially when I thought of it. It’s hard to remember. Given the onslaught of all of the things listed within the song, it was kind of me ranting. It’s so weird because [nearly] 10 years later, a lot of those things don’t bother me anymore. I think I was in the middle of some sort of weirdness that some people could label as OCD. I definitely have some social anxieties, and I guess I had a bunch of problems or things that just set me off or made me kind of fear and shrink away. I guess I utilized that in a song. I’ve been utilizing that in one form or another since that song.