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title: "Stupid Forever"

meaning: "FEiN co-write: bad vibes and familiar lies, pillow to my face: am I gonna feel stupid forever, hello from the moon, maybe forever."

year: 2021
release: "Stupid Forever"
releaseType: "single"

artist: "FEiN"
artistId: "#fein"

coWriters: ["Brandon Michael Woodward"]
credits: "Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/stupid-forever/1567493083?i=1567493084"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4LJfnGBABdrlnlVpiM2qvW"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrFmJEINXNU"

press:
  - outlet: "KCRW: Stupid Forever (360° live session)"
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrFmJEINXNU"

themes: ["FEiN", "shame", "anxiety", "theatrical pop", "isolation"]

isrc: QZ2QB2100001
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Days like this are easy to come by
  Easier all the time
  Gone aggressive into the goodnight
  Easier all the time
  Stay up late reliving a bad vibe
  Tell a familiar lie
  Set myself up blind in the meantime
  Killing another night

  That was super cool
  Pillow to my face
  How long will it hurt
  Hello, nothing new

  Am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmmm
  I don't wanna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmm

  Days like this don't lead with a headline
  Give it a little time
  Soothe myself in measured achievement
  Cozy until the night
  My god, let this be the last time
  Smell a familiar lie
  If I ever think it's a good vibe
  Burn out all the light

  That was super cool
  Pillow to my face
  How long will it hurt
  Hello, nothing new

  Am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, I don't wanna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmmm
  Am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, I don't wanna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmm

  Pull me from my room
  Shoot me into space
  How long will it hurt
  Hello from the moon

  Am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmmm
  I don't wanna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, I don't wanna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmm
  Maybe I'm gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmm
  Maybe I'm gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever
  Forever, am I gonna feel stupid
  Forever
  Forever, hmm

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**FEiN** single (**June 14, 2021**), co-written by **Luke Francis Walton** and **Brandon Michael Woodward**. Mixed and mastered by **[Frank Rosato](/with/frank-rosato/)** (same Woodcliff chain as [*Sidecar*](/songs/sidecar/) and [*Delicate*](/songs/delicate/); [*Bodies*](/songs/bodies/) uses Cary Singer / Riley Knapp). [360° live session at KCRW](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrFmJEINXNU) with **Ryan McDiarmid** (drums) and **Geo Botelho** (bass), session audio mastered by Riley Knapp — performance video, not a produced MV ([FEiN's only MV is *#Grownupz*](/songs/grownupz/)). Good place to catch Walton's guitar solo. Not on [*Little Homes*](/albums/little-homes-fein/) (2016); part of the 2021 FEiN cluster with *Sidecar* (December) and Scoobert's [*I'm an Idiot*](/songs/im-an-idiot/), all sharing the same post-pandemic self-consciousness.

Shame as singalong. The verses run a rumination loop dressed up as ease (*days like this are easy to come by*), small wins as anesthesia before the relapse into *burn out all the light*. The bridge does the real damage with deadpan sarcasm, *that was super cool / pillow to my face*, a greeting to your own rerun.

By the final bridge the escape fantasy has scaled to orbit (*hello from the moon*) and the outro converts the title question into a prognosis: *maybe I'm gonna feel stupid forever*. Pairs with [*Behave*](/songs/behave/) (scripts you fail) and [*Infant*](/songs/infant/) (misreading someone).

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