New Noise Magazine is excited to premiere “Rad Or Sad” by Trunkweed. “Rad Or Sad” spirals through lie’s big questions with a quirky attitude, punching guitar chords and an upbeat stature. Trunkweed sets up a dichotomy through feeling hopeless yet having a fun song, meshing surf-pop that bounces with purpose. “Rad Or Sad” comes off of the band’s upcoming record, You Are A Nice Surprise, out December 16th via Funeral Sounds and Out of Breath Records.

“The night before singing this song in the studio, we bought some ecstasy off the Cleveland streets because I still didn’t have the lyrics written and couldn’t, for the life of me, find the capacity to spout something meaningful. After getting all goofy with everyone, I decided to go off on my own to search for the words that could explain this sort of hopeless journey to create some sort of meaning. That’s when the song started to finally make sense to me – when I realized that my whole life has always been this sort of romanticized reenactment of what I thought someone searching for purpose might look like – it became clear that my attempts to find meaning within this world were inherently both rad and sad.

This song is simply about how people (well really, how I..) are always trying their best to seem so cool to everyone else, like they have their shit together, in order to have ‘friends’ or even just to maintain a social life in general. But despite how dope this version they create of themself is, they are just as lame and alone in this world as the kids they felt superior to. It’s a super simple story about getting so lost in the image of yourself that, when you finally realize how terrible you are, you can’t even remember who or what you were and, of course, no one is there to care for or about you anymore. So then, you’re just stuck wondering whether who you are and what you’ve done is either sad or rad.”

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