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Songfacts®:

  • Cosmodrome was a short-lived band formed at Berklee College of Music by four students: Madison McFerrin (vocals), Finnegan Bryan Singer (guitar), Charley Ruddell (bass) and Taylor Robinson (drums).

    McFerrin, the daughter of Bobby McFerrin, told the story of the track in a Songfacts interview. "I'd woken up, and I had a text from my ex-boyfriend who I hadn't talked to in forever. I was really pissed off that he had texted me. I had all this energy and didn't know what to do with it, so I sat down and I wrote a song. It's not about him, but about this energy. I needed to expel that in some way, and I intentionally did not want to write a song about him. My guitarist at the time said, 'You should just write about random s--t.' And so, I was, like, 'Let me try it.'

    I thought it came out really well and it was also my favorite song to play on the piano - it had a lot of different interesting parts. Compositionally, it was a favorite."

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