Uncomfortable

Album: Uncomfortable (2015)
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • The title track of Andy Mineo's Uncomfortable album finds him wanting more from life. "What I've been trying to learn is how to embrace discomfort," the rapper told MTV News.

    "One of the quotes that stuck out to me when I was making this album was, 'Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed,'" he added. "You've heard it before: 'I just wanna live a comfortable life.' But those ideas, to me, don't push me to grow. This album for me, too, is about embracing the discomfort of growth."
  • Mineo put himself in an uncomfortable space for the Uncomfortable album, to challenge his own creativity. "I'm going against the grain of what works," he told The Boombox. "So like I know how to make turn up records, southern records, all the popular records that are out right now."

    Mineo added: "But this is for the first time I think on an album I'm like 'no, I'm going to take my own artistic step in a different direction and say this is what I like and I'm not gonna just try to keep up with what's happening. I'm gonna try to step out of the safe space to kinda curate my own sound.' That's what's scary."
  • Andy Mineo shows his support for the LBGT community when he raps, "I apologize for Christians with pickets sayin' 'God hates f-gs.' I promise Jesus wouldn't act like that." He explained the lyric to The Boombox: "I desired to honor them as people in the image of God. Nobody – regardless of how they feel or behave – deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination. I don't care who you are. There's a bigger conversation there about honoring and respecting people who are different from you.

    One of the trickiest things [that] people can't wrap their mind around is how you can honor and respect someone and still not agree with them. How do you look at Donald Trump or someone who is a polarizing figure and say 'I respect you?'"

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica)

Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica)Songwriter Interviews

The former Metallica bassist talks about his first time writing a song with James Hetfield, and how a hand-me-down iPad has changed his songwriting.

Divided Souls: Musical Alter Egos

Divided Souls: Musical Alter EgosSong Writing

Long before Eminem, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj created alternate personas, David Bowie, Bono, Joni Mitchell and even Hank Williams took on characters.

Graham Nash

Graham NashSongwriter Interviews

Graham Nash tells the stories behind some of his famous songs and photos, and is asked about "yacht rock" for the first time.

Marvin Gaye

Marvin GayeFact or Fiction

Did Marvin try out with the Detroit Lions? Did he fake crazy to get out of military service? And what about the cross-dressing?

Oliver Leiber

Oliver LeiberSongwriter Interviews

Oliver Leiber talks about writing and producing hits for Paula Abdul, and explains his complicated relationship with his father, the songwriter Jerry Leiber.

Protest Songs

Protest SongsMusic Quiz

How well do you know your protest songs (including the one that went to #1)?