“It’s like, the world so far in a parody way, then the coackroaches starting their own civilisation and history repeating itself – maybe.” “Nuclear war happens, then after that there’s little teeny cockroaches that are still left alive, then they get bigger, lose their shells, start standing upright and start creating religion and government.” “I have a song on the album called ‘You And The Cockroach’, which is about the world becoming how it is: there’s amoeba turning into fish, then fish losing their scales and getting onto land, then turning into human beings, then starting religion, starting government, to now with Trump and wanting to blow up the world and him ruining fucking everything,” he begins, very excited. Touring and celebrating his new record aside, Johnson tells us that the rest of 2019 will be spent cleaning his “new, dirty ass house” and thinking about his first ever musical, with hope for it arriving in 2020. I hope that a lot of artists continue to be honest and express how they feel.” I would like to think that and I hope so, but at least with everything going on in America right now and the political climate, it’s tough to say that anything is going well or progressing, but I hope so. Other people express that through listening to it. “To me, it’s just how I feel and expressing that makes me feel better. “In our culture, at least in American culture, when you’re sad you don’t want to say those things because you’re looked at like you’re weird, sensitive, or almost ‘weak’ in a sense,” he says of his stance on mental health. In these fractured times, Johnson is keen for his fans to know that they’re never alone. It’s a message of solidarity that needs to be delivered. So it’s important to me that I continue to be honest, but I don’t aim to do that. That gets me out of whatever spot I’m in, but I notice that people resonate with what I’m saying somehow. “At the end of the day, I make music to make myself feel better. “It’s a bi-product of what I do,” he admits. Weird sounds aside, Johnson has declared that he wants the new album to “make everyone feel less alone and a little more that they wanted to stay alive“. I would just say that it’s ‘alternative-hip-hop-rock-folk’.” ‘Typical Story’ is like a rock song, ‘Ugly Kid’ is like some weird jazz, hip-hop song. I definitely had a certain sound but this time I tried to make it so there was no way that you could nail it down. “I try not to follow one genre, especially on the last album. ‘Typical Story’ and ‘Ugly Kid’ are more or less opposite ends of the spectrum. “On the new album, I really wanted to be sure that every song sounded different from each other. Are they representative of what we can expect from the new record? So far, we’ve had the drastically different tasters of the record with ‘ Typical Story‘ and ‘ UglyKid‘.
I stand by it, even though some thought it was a shit song,” Johnson explained.Now he’s back, with follow-up ‘The Fall Of Hobo Johnson arriving on September 13. “The song represents my COVID-19 lockdown journey of becoming aware of my surroundings. Like many of us, Johnson was left to somehow be productive at home. Johnson’s building intensity for the world around him arose out of his inability to travel during the pandemic. “ is the one about the blockade on Cuba because it impacts them so much and it’s not common knowledge that it still exists,” Johnson said.
Johnson also tells American Songwriter that within this shift, his favorite verse is a line about Cuba. This transition is clear as Johnson’s lyrics expand from humorous fancies to global anxieties. “‘I want to see the world’ is about a person with little care about the world around them, then turning into a person who cares very much,” Johnson tells American Songwriter. Specifically, the vocalist mentions his desire to pay his respects to the troops who fought in Normandy during World War II and his concerns for places like Honduras and Guatemala. “I want to see the World” slips into an introspective air as Johnson continues to turn a phrase. After France, Johnson mentions Japan and Germany before quickly changing his tone.
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