And then at some point the idea of getting Adam Levine for the chorus popped up, and that was kind of crazy.

“We bumped the song out pretty quickly, I would say maybe in an morning and afternoon, and things developed quickly. We can probably work with that,'” McGinley says of the song, which Gym Class Heroes may perform with Levine on the “Ellen DeGeneres” show next month.

“Benny Blanco pitched us the idea, and we were like, ‘Yeah, that’s kinda cool. They’ve also identified the likely next two singles - “Ass Back Home” and “The Fighter” - but they’ll be held back while “Stereo Hearts” is blasting near the top of the charts.Ĭobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes Party For Fueled By Ramen Anniversary Gym Class Heroes are playing some of the new material on the road even before the album’s release, and the band’s leaked tracks such as “Martyrial Girls$” and “Life Goes On” (with Oh Land) online. So with this album we tried to almost un-learn a lot of the standard song formats that have been beaten into our brain in the last five years and bring back that naivete we had when we were writing the first album.” Back then we were just young kids kinda fooling around and making music we didn’t have a ton of knowledge about song formats and traditional arrangements for music. We tried to go for things that were a little more challenging or unconventional arrangements. So when we started writing for the sequel, that’s the direction we tried to push things musically. It just has this moody, almost eerie vibe throughout the songs. “To me, ‘The Papercut Chronicles’ is a lot darker, musically. We’re just trying to expand on a lot of ideas and themes that we started with it. Nevertheless, he adds, “We’re not necessarily trying to rehash the first album.

McGinley says McCoy suggested the idea while the band was touring in Canada, “and I was like, ‘Whoa! That’s incredible!’ and we just started brainstorming different ideas of themes that we could bring back and sort of expand on.” 15 with production by Benny Blanco and Kid Cudi collaborator Emile - being a sequel to 2005’s “The Papercut Chronicles,” the group’s national debut. Gym Class Heroes’ followers are certainly intrigued by the idea of “The Papercut Chronicles II” - which comes out on Nov.

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