Flicker - Commentary

Flicker is definitely one of my favorite songs on the album
Uh, I wanted to combine, like, I don't know
My favorite album ever is Daft Punk's Discovery
And with that I think came a real love of soul sample type stuff
So I started working with, messing with and flipping soul samples
And I kinda landed on this like
You know, hip-hoppy, hip-hoppy little beat, and
I, you know, I kind of, I felt that it was just incomplete
With just the drums and with the soul sample on the phaser

I don't think this was ever, yeah
You know, when I first wrote Flicker it wasn't meant to be a world song
But, uhm, I had an MP3 or a WAV file sitting on my desktop
Of, I had used a text-to-speech programs basically

Basically, I took a bunch of song titles and ru-, and translated them in Japanese
You know, not correctly at all, just using an online translation tool
And, uh, then I used a text-to-speech on it
Just made this little robot voice say all these song titles in Japanese

So for songs that were, I would never, song titles that would never be seen
And then I chopped it up into a rap
And that's where you get the 私は little hook from
And, uh, I just thought it was, I thought it was a charming little thing
And then after I had written that, that piece
I, I went into the next section with the lead melody
And-and the different chord progression
You know to me Flicker is one of the songs that has structure
That goes to a lot of different places
And it's not meant to be a Pop song
It's more of a little journey, and, uh

Yeah, it's just, I think it's a charming song
And it's one of the ones I'm proudest of