But to me, it’s a song about how fiercely I wanted to hold on, and how begrudgingly I let go. Here’s the thing with “The Best Deceptions”: If you read the lyrics, they might read as a condemnation of your significant other’s choices or behaviors. And sometimes it’s about who she and I are now, and how many incredible moments we’ve had. And so, sometimes when I’m singing that song, it really is about that day, that night, that party, that walk to her house, and the literal inspiration and experience for that song. But it is sort of a measuring stick by which I can compare other best dates. I think a surprising fact I would learn as I had more and more life experiences as the years go by, you have plenty more best dates. It’s like having an emotionally supercharged shared moment. It’s not just like having a big old hooky catchy hit song. It’s so full of shared emotion and that is a unique thing. I have no idea why it became an anthem, I’m so glad it did. But because of that experience I have with my music where it vacillates between so many different sources of emotional response and brings me to so many different places from night to night, the song remains unfinished. If it wasn’t that, I could see how people would get tired of playing any song for a long time, for many years. So it’s a very fruitful song in that regard. And then there’s times where it’s like all the way back to the life experience that led me to write the song. There’s times where I’m in the van, parked in the lot where I wrote this song. There’s times where I am standing on stage, and in the sense memory of it, I’m right there at the Unplugged. There’s times where it applies to who I am right now, in subject matter. And so, I’m having a moment where it’s being sung to me, where I’m listening to it. And I can almost sense what it’s about to them. I can be playing the song and sometimes I just take on what I feel is like the emotional undercurrent of the audience, what they’re feeling. It can have effects on me that are completely unpredictable. “From the get go, I felt like this, some sense of responsibility, but mostly just excitement, to share bands I believe in that hadn’t heard yet,” says Carrabba. And when he’s not focused on his own projects, he’s supporting rising artists in the indie rock and emo space like Julien Baker and pronoun, for instance. In addition to Dashboard Confessional, Carrabba also has his folk-rock project Twin Forks and is a founding member of Further Seems Forever. And then they too can feel that catharsis.” He also believes there’s a universality that stems from Dashboard Confessional’s songs, even though they’re specific to his own life experience. Maybe that gives them a chance to have a little ownership, to take themselves as the person in the song. He still isn’t fully sure why they’ve become so comforting to people, but he has a few guesses: “Maybe they can feel the honesty of intention in the song. Over the past two decades, frontman Carrabba has, for many people, become the face of emo, as Dashboard Confessional’s music remains a source of catharsis for its listeners. Since its formation in 1999, Dashboard Confessional has released seven albums in addition to the recent comp. With Best Ones, Carrabba tells the history of the band through 20 pivotal tracks including “Hands Down,” “Screaming Infidelities, “The Best Deceptions” and more. Then, The Best Ones of The Best Ones was born: a love letter to the longevity of Dashboard Confessional and to the fans who have remained devoted for over two decades. Why Xscape Was Initially 'Cautious' About 'Queens of R&B' TV Show With SWV
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