Sometime in April 2009, one of the Converse representatives from Shanghai got in touch and lots of emails and a couple of phone calls later, we were on board for their Fall ‘09 Music + Lyrics campaign that centers around indie music and its community around the Asia-Pacific region.
Converse has been part of the whole rock ‘n’ roll heritage for a long time. We’re definitely most honored that the Shanghai folks believe in the band enough to choose us as the only band from Singapore for the campaign. You also would have never guessed that Shirley originally wrote the song about Lennat’s obsession with paintball. (Keynote: Lennat has since quit the sport.)
Other than the song and lyrics, we also contributed a series of local stories for their Dispatches column. We had a lot of fun in the sun chasing stories as a band, interviewing our peers, talking to them about their hopes and dreams, sharing the very same hopes and dreams - we learned a lot more about that “renegade indie spirit” that we were told to capture. In a way, Singapore definitely lacks the derelict urban decay of China, Korea and Thailand but we are all still here chasing teenage kicks, aren’t we?
You can download the lyrics from “Kill Pill” as your wallpaper here.
