Tapehead - Stressin' [Official Video]
Track 13 off my debut album: https://linktr.ee/tapeheadlinks
Available on CD and cassette: https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/album/just-m...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/34e7KUG7AGO...
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/stressin/...
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/stressin
Love to Steezy Selections for filming the video for this one, shot this cover art too. Setup for this was actually crazy, records have got to be the most deceptively heavy objects, crates actually weigh a ton. I wanted it to seem like I was really surrounding myself with music on a visual level, got the records all around me and the equipment there too. I then ran the videos through a CRT TV to then film that as like the 'different perspectives', overlayed the takes ontop of the normal takes etc, experimented a bit with this one in terms of the editing etc. Also shoutout to Super Metroid fr, I knew I had to get some kind of game setup for the lines at the start of the track, been a while since that SNES was used so was dope to see it still worked. All my old save files from back in the day were still there too which was dope, I used to play this game loads and loads, Metroid was defo one of my favourite franchises I'd say Fusion is probably my favourite tbh. Don't have as much time for it now but have great memories with them.
This one is all about me shutting myself away a bit and just focusing on music to help me heal and all that. One of my favourite tracks I've written in terms of the lyrics, think there's a lot of hard hitting lines and the track covers a lot. Rare that I write hooks too but this one felt right, got the album title from it too which I think for sure says something about this track, sums up a lot of my goals when it comes to making music. Also pretty dope that this is the 500th video on my channel, here's to 500 more fr. Peace always!!
Beat, lyrics, mixing, mastering all by Tapehead
Lyrics:
Stressin'
I need a fresh perspective
Too many questions, guessin
This depression, keeps on pressin, endless
How can I end this, hectic
Life's a method
The madness, that I been testing
Got no one to step with
Just myself, tryna find the exits
Mad mistakes reflecting
How'd I end here, ten years flew past
Getting old, now I see through the wool fast
Do not even want to play, but I pushed start
Wish I coulda reset, feelin used up
Must have had my nine lives, way I used drugs
Funny how the time flies, I didn't do much
If we change, can I save what I once was
Do not know what to say, think I knew once
Can't you see I'm in pain, but you keep on
Known from my face, how Id lead on and see love
Easy ashamed, had to face this too much
Can't change what I am, but I feel lost
Something feels gone, lost all the spark
When I caught you was all wrong
But still cannot move on
That's nothin new fuck
I'm always stressin
I need a fresh perspective
Too many questions, guessin
This depression keeps on pressin, endless
How can I end this, hectic
Lifes a method
The madness that I been testing
Got no one to step with
Just myself tryna find the exits
Mad mistakes
Hope I can
Kick myself, and wake from this dream
I gotta stop thinkin life would be best for me
If she would only see, whatever we could be
Then I could never be apart, something heavenly
Stop pretending please, ain't nothin ever seemed
Like you could trust in another, fucking tenth degree
I put the emphaseez, cause what this meant to me
Is too much
Why it cuts, how you stepped on me
It gets me down, the way you acted now
I keep writing down, have to vent it out
Somehow, some style, best underground
But it would be mad dope, if people felt this out
Shit is for anyone going through some pain
Not tryna measure up regret, get it out and say
It resonates when you hear someone's not OK
Feeling lost in the struggle of the day to day
I put in work everyday, just to feel this way
So what the fuck, where's the change
From me feeling dazed
Too high from the haze, couldn't even say
But I know that back then I wouldn't even take
Time to sit down and think why I feel this way
Wouldn't take no time to make beats create
Wouldn't even try and face, anything the days
Would waste away waking up its already late
So yo I'd rather stay sober
Stay level stay calmer
Even if when I'm low I think about it much farther
Even then I know I make a track to go much harder
Feeling like I got a purpose
It's worth all the drama
I need a fresh perspective
Too many questions, guessin
This depression keeps on pressin, endless
How can I end this, hectic
Lifes a method
The madness that I been testing
Got no one to step with
Just myself tryna do what's best, shit
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