Digital Papers

## Track Listing

**Digital Papers** is the first track and only single from Unfamiliar Light. The single's music video was released on February 6, 2017, and the digital single was released on streaming services two days later, on February 8.

## Background & Composition

In an interview with azcentral UPSAHL said: *"'Digital Papers’ is about the lack of originality that popular media allows us to have. The concept of ‘unfamiliar light,’ to me, is our creativity, our ability to challenge opinions, and our communication with one another to generate positive change, so in saying that it’s ‘not welcome,’ it’s a diss on societal expectations that influence people to feel that they should act a certain way. I named my album after this lyric because the album in general is a clear social commentary.*

*The video that I had literally been directing in my mind aligned really well with the choppy rhythms and dynamics of the song, so I wrote lyrics that followed this vibe of 'unison, syncopation, and unoriginality.' Since I wanted a music video for this song, I knew that the recording had to be killer enough to be a single, so I spent a lot of time on this song specifically. I have about four different recorded versions of it. Once we finished recording, I got to co-produce the music video, and my ideas were finally coming to life. We had about 30 of my friends dressed in all black and white in a warehouse, doing cool movements, my best friend choreographed a part of the video, and it overall turned out better than I could have imagined. It just goes to show that hard work really does pay off when it comes to writing, recording, and producing music!"*

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

We're recreating what it means to be strong

Conforming too, the post original is long gone

Our minds are slowly merging into one until I get out

Massive minds are parallel, taste the same bitterness in our mouth (In our mouth)

**[Hook]**

The twins, they line up in a row now

And we watch as they walk by in a straight line

Holding onto a perfect place and practice quality

The windows are closing in, unfamiliar light is not welcome

We allow control for no other than the keys and the digital papers

**[Verse 2]**

See the blank stares as we fill the coffee cups with hypocrisy

Because their faces aren't their face today

Behind the shame train with two copies of one personality

They're trying to continue with this scheme

And this coffee's going bitter with the corrupt sweet

**[Hook]**

The twins, they line up in a row now

And we watch as they walk by in a straight line

Holding onto a perfect place and practice quality

The windows are closing in, unfamiliar light is not welcome

We allow control for no other than the keys and the digital papers

**[Verse 3]**

Focus one by one

Never give in, it is complete and done and the battle hasn't won

Rewiring minds, we live by the same source of time

Others conform what we feel to be wrong or right

Holding falsities at each others backs

But who is willing to hold the knife

And as each new day dawns all

**[Hook]**

The twins, they line up in a row now

And we watch as they walk by in a straight line

Holding onto a perfect place and practice quality

The windows are closing in, unfamiliar light is not welcome

We allow control for no other than the keys and the digital papers

## Music Video

The music video for the song was shot some time around December 2016-January 2017 since it was being edited on January 4, 2017. It was directed by Matty Steinkamp and it features cameos from Rachel Rinsema, Lennon Torres, Dylan Jacob, among others.

UPSAHL -- Digital Papers Official Music Video
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