I'm Starting to Get Vertigo (Interview)

Rivers: "Troublemaker", we figured we needed... After we finished The Red Album, we were like, well, we need a few more, like, fast songs with a kind of badass attitude. And so I just kind of started just scrolling through my iTunes and, because I have everything all organized there, and, just looking through old demos. And I found a song I'd written a few years earlier called "Troublemaker" and I listened to it. I was like, dang, that's exactly what we're looking for. So we brought it in and we jammed it out very quickly. Brian: And then this is the first time we worked with a producer named Jacknife Lee... Scott: Who did things really different than we had done on the rest of the album. So it was really shocking and fast, but it came out amazing. Rivers: Troublemaker is a fun one to play live. I often smash a ukulele over my head while I'm playing, but I'm starting to get vertigo. And apparently I knocked something loose in my inner ear. I think it's initially from my bus accident last December, but it's starting to get worse. So I think I got to lay off the ukulele smashing on my head. Scott, Pat, Rivers, and Brian: [laughter]