The title is a reference to The Simpsons. As for the meaning, it seems like it's Soupy's reaction to everyone's feelings on The Upsides. Because he wrote that upbeat record about beating depression, he felt a lot of pressure to be upbeat and positive all the time, but that's just not how it works. Like he said "I'm not sad anymore" isn't a statement of fact, but a battle cry. Instead, "it's not about forcing happiness, it's about not letting sadness win."
And maaaan, when I first heard the start of the song, "The fountain was off," I got really emotional, because I got that metaphor of the fountain in Logan Circle being a symbol of a fresh beginning, and suddenly you go back and see that now it's off again. Sadness/Depression, whatever, it comes and goes. That metaphor lives on. So stoked to hear the rest of the album because I think I'm going to relate to it even more than I did Upsides already.
The title is a reference to The Simpsons. As for the meaning, it seems like it's Soupy's reaction to everyone's feelings on The Upsides. Because he wrote that upbeat record about beating depression, he felt a lot of pressure to be upbeat and positive all the time, but that's just not how it works. Like he said "I'm not sad anymore" isn't a statement of fact, but a battle cry. Instead, "it's not about forcing happiness, it's about not letting sadness win."
And maaaan, when I first heard the start of the song, "The fountain was off," I got really emotional, because I got that metaphor of the fountain in Logan Circle being a symbol of a fresh beginning, and suddenly you go back and see that now it's off again. Sadness/Depression, whatever, it comes and goes. That metaphor lives on. So stoked to hear the rest of the album because I think I'm going to relate to it even more than I did Upsides already.