Boom

Today is our third release day in April here at Beautiful Idiots LLC. “Boom”, the fourth single from Roe’s Garden is available everywhere. It’s definitely got a little more pop to it than the rest of the Roe’s Garden singles, but I think this song is a whole lotta fun.

This song may have released today, but it’s actually a lot older than you might think. I believe the original demo dates back to 2018 or 19. Zane (of The New Hippies) had given it to me to write to after we finished the Variety Pack EP so we could start working on a follow up. Then, as I’ve mentioned multiple times, the Wu-Tang show opportunity took us off our expected path, and no new music came out for a very long time. Every now and then though, Understanding and I found ourselves with some downtime at the studio, so we would go through our hard drive and find ideas to write to. Boom took shape on one of those days at RZA’s studio. We cut up Zane’s demo and I wrote a verse and a hook and then we put it away again for a while.

Eventually, when Erica got her first show in LA, she asked us to play with her as her band. She had three originals at the time and we had written “Gotta Have It” and “Invincible” so we had some material but we needed more to fill time. I suggested she sing Boom, and we ended up doing it as a duet and adding it to the set. There was no second verse yet so I did an old verse that was already in “Who Knew” by The New Hippies. After we played it live a few times we decided to release it through Roe’s Garden and so Un and I each tried a verse to fill the empty space. We went with mine and that’s the song you can hear now. Hope you enjoy!

-J.P.