"So you have this song of yours that got 2.5 million-"
"Crazy"
"This is all recent too?"
"Yea it started in July, and then it was like a slow build all the way"
"Has there ever been a point in the process where you were trying to resist that happening"
"Because of what it was going to align for you, what path was going to carve out?"
"There was definitely a certain degree of denial"
Fate has a funny way to say
It's your turn
It can feel like a long way
But you'll learn
Once you find what you're looking for
You might not want it anymore
But if it's fate
Then it's something you can't ignore (can't ignore)
One day (can't ignore)
One day (can't ignore)
One day (can't ignore)
One day (can't ignore)
One day (can't ignore)
"It never came in the way that I thought it would"
"And so--, so there was this degree of denial for me"
"Where the last 6 months of 2022, I was like heightened anxiety cause I was getting this new attention"
"I'm not really a person who loves attention"
"Um, that's why i release music under the name 'phendste' and not my name 'stephen'"
"To create the separation between the two..."
"So everything, like you said everything blew up because of the 1-"
"That one song, yeah"
"And then I realized, like, oh this is the pipeline to the rest of my discography"
"This is just the starting point"
"This is the point that it'll hit the biggest splatter"
"And the people that'll seek more of my music will go do that"