I'm going to start out by saying that I'm tired of all of the Go Radio / Mayday Parade "drama" the fans have created. Now, when I first heard this song, I heard all how it was about Mayday Parade, and it got me thinking that maybe it was. I started really thinking about what this song was about, and I started believing it was about Mayday "stealing" all of Jason's songs, and getting semi-famous with them. Especially the personal songs, "Miserable at Best", etc. How that song was his that he wrote about his girl, and they just took it as their own.
Now, I'm going to say that I was completely wrong. This was what Jason himself said about the song in an interview:
POZ: Can you tell us a little about “Thanks For Nothing”? Would it surprise you if people automatically jumped to conclusions about it representing your departure from Mayday?
Jason: “Thanks For Nothing” is a kind of like a slap-back song. I had a friend of mine, an old friend of mine, do some stuff that he probably shouldn’t have done with a girl that he probably shouldn’t have done it with. I found out at a really inopportune time I guess and we had words and a scuffle and I went back to the studio. Our management keeps a space where we can write and record, it’s just a really great tool. I went over and confronted him, it had to have been at about 6 o’clock in the morning or so and I got back to the studio after everything happened because that’s where I was staying at the time when we were writing. We were home from a tour for a little bit, it was like the day before I left to go out again. So I just went back and wrote. It started out as a piano song. It was really slow, really simple. I don’t know, I did that, then brought it to management and the band and everyone was like, “Wow, this is really great.” We started experimenting with the way we could play it, but that song is one of the more tragic songs on the EP. I think a lot of people probably think it’s about the Mayday thing, but it really has nothing to do with it. [Laughs]
POZ: [Laughs]. Just a few people think that.
Jason: It really has absolutely nothing to do with those guys. I love all of those guys to death. They’re really good people and it sucks that things didn’t work out and we aren’t in the same places all the time, but the fact remains, they are still our friends. We had some disagreements, but they’ve all definitely been worked through. I’ve got nothing but the best for those guys
I'm going to start out by saying that I'm tired of all of the Go Radio / Mayday Parade "drama" the fans have created. Now, when I first heard this song, I heard all how it was about Mayday Parade, and it got me thinking that maybe it was. I started really thinking about what this song was about, and I started believing it was about Mayday "stealing" all of Jason's songs, and getting semi-famous with them. Especially the personal songs, "Miserable at Best", etc. How that song was his that he wrote about his girl, and they just took it as their own.
Now, I'm going to say that I was completely wrong. This was what Jason himself said about the song in an interview:
POZ: Can you tell us a little about “Thanks For Nothing”? Would it surprise you if people automatically jumped to conclusions about it representing your departure from Mayday?
Jason: “Thanks For Nothing” is a kind of like a slap-back song. I had a friend of mine, an old friend of mine, do some stuff that he probably shouldn’t have done with a girl that he probably shouldn’t have done it with. I found out at a really inopportune time I guess and we had words and a scuffle and I went back to the studio. Our management keeps a space where we can write and record, it’s just a really great tool. I went over and confronted him, it had to have been at about 6 o’clock in the morning or so and I got back to the studio after everything happened because that’s where I was staying at the time when we were writing. We were home from a tour for a little bit, it was like the day before I left to go out again. So I just went back and wrote. It started out as a piano song. It was really slow, really simple. I don’t know, I did that, then brought it to management and the band and everyone was like, “Wow, this is really great.” We started experimenting with the way we could play it, but that song is one of the more tragic songs on the EP. I think a lot of people probably think it’s about the Mayday thing, but it really has nothing to do with it. [Laughs]
POZ: [Laughs]. Just a few people think that.
Jason: It really has absolutely nothing to do with those guys. I love all of those guys to death. They’re really good people and it sucks that things didn’t work out and we aren’t in the same places all the time, but the fact remains, they are still our friends. We had some disagreements, but they’ve all definitely been worked through. I’ve got nothing but the best for those guys