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Can't Imagine Feeling Better

Metadata

title
Can't Imagine Feeling Better
meaning
Peak Little Hug absurd joy: banana-peel skip, Obama OG, ride a llama with the Dalai Lama through seven seas: can't imagine feeling better than I do right now.
year
2021
release
Little Hug
releaseType
EP
artist
Scoobert Doobert
artistId
#scoobert
credits
Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp.
placement
Coors Light TV (Canada): music supervisor Mike Ladman (Droga5)
press
spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/08qm91rIDQEj86DoQWiNyB
officialVideo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz3QqvWzDQI
apple
https://music.apple.com/us/album/cant-imagine-feeling-better/1558296985?i=1558296994
youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj_MMZs6W2E
themes
  • joy
  • absurdism
  • Little Hug
  • recovery
isrc
QZNWU2063431
isrcSource
soundexchange
draft
false

Lyrics

Today I got a skip in my step
Then I find I'm tripping on a banana
Banana

I dust off and skip along
I got a good thing going on
Marijuana
Named Obama OG

I can't imagine feeling better than I do right now
Can't imagine feeling better than I do right now

Today I'm gonna take the view
Best dream I ever knew
Ride a llama
Dalai lama

We ride through the seven seas
His holiness and me
Getting karma
Knowing dharma
Born new

I can't imagine feeling better than I do right now
Can't imagine feeling better than I do right now
Yeah
I can't imagine feeling better than I do right now

Yeah

I can't imagine feeling better than I do right now
Can't imagine feeling better than I do right now

I can't imagine feeling better than I do right now
I can't imagine feeling better
I can't imagine feeling better
Better better better

Content

Track eight on Little Hug (April 2021), also on Big Hug (October 2021), as a standalone single, and on Live from the Void. Luke solo. The title is the EP's thesis: not fine, but right now, impossibly, yes.

The joy is built entirely from cartoon resilience and nonsense. Verse one trips over a banana and gets up grinning, helped along by weed named Obama OG; verse two saddles up for a pilgrimage with the Dalai Lama (we ride through the seven seas / getting karma knowing dharma born new). Not Buddhism homework, just spiritual fan-fiction. Between them the hook stacks until it overflows into better better better, the grin pushed past the point of credibility, which is the joke and also the point after a pandemic record.

Official music video on YouTube, also on /music/#selected-videos.

egoFM rotation: Climbed egoFM's weekly ego 42 chart from #10 (Mar 13, 2021) to #8 (Apr 3, 2021). On November 24, 2023, egoFM published its 15-year Top 1,000 most-played songs — Scoobert Doobert listed as #654 (Cant Imagine Feeling Better Like This), between Radiohead — Jigsaw Falling Into Place (#653) and Aim feat. YZ (#655). Long-rotation Munich receipt beyond the weekly chart Instagram posts.

Coors Light (TV, Canada): Mike Ladman placed the track while at Droga5: music supervision for the brand's summer Canada TV campaign. @beformer announced the placement August 25, 2022, crediting Droga5. Ladman later joined Love Music More for Going To Air with Mike Ladman (Droga5, McCann). See /press/#sync.

On Little Hug it sits between I'm Addicted to Baths and I Am a Lobster, I Am a Barnacle; on Big Hug it carries the EP's seed into the larger LP alongside reworked If I Could Only and Debby (Extended). Opposite energy from A Good Life on MMM: bottled grin versus earnest mantra.