OH I'M IN RUINS BABY
I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING LATELY
IT’S BEEN SO BRUTAL CHANGING

YEAH, I’M IN RUINS BABY

I STILL REMEMBER WHEN KODY SENT ME THE FIRST KILLER DEMO. I WAS SITTING OUTSIDE AT MY AIRBNB IN PALM SPRINGS. THE AIR WAS COLD, AND I WAS WAITING FOR THE NIGHT TO BEGIN.

I THREW ON MY AIRPODS AND WAS INSTANTLY EXCITED FROM THE MOMENT I PRESSED PLAY. I THOUGHT THIS IS WHAT WE HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR ALL ALONG. THE SLOW, BROODING, BEAUTIFUL DOOM OF THE COMBINATION OF KODY’S VOCALS, THE STRINGS, THE PULSING BEAT AND GUITAR. IT WAS REAL.

THE SONGS THAT MAKE IT, I BELIEVE, ARE THE ONES WHERE YOU FEEL SOMETHING INSIDE THEM FROM THE ONSET. THAT EMOTION DEEP DOWN IS A COMPASS THAT GUIDES YOU TO WHAT’S GOT THE FIRE. YOU’RE LISTENING FOR THAT INEXPLICABLE TRUTH BURIED IN THE HEART OF THE RAWNESS OF THE FIRST PASS OF A NEW SONG.

AND THIS ONE, I KNEW, HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL. I LISTENED TO IT ON REPEAT, SLOWLY TAKING IT ALL IN, AND FROM THERE I UNDERSTOOD WE HAD TO BRING THIS SONG TO THE FINISH LINE.

-KYLE

KILLER VIDEO SHOOT BTS

KILLER

What is this world we live in?

A world we inherited, built on competition, dominance, and the need to take up space or your space will be taken?

When the world is like this, a constant and inescapable board where at the end there are only those left standing and those left behind, where there is the small taste of victory for the few and the bitter taste of defeat for so many, there is only one statement to live by:

I

Don’t

Wanna

Win

That’s where the sentiment of this song beginS, and at its core that’s where it and we remain,

but the unfortuante truth is there is no way to escape the game. We’re all in it, together, for better or for worse. So, if you have to play the game, if you have to participate in the competition of the modern world, you might as well be a

KILLER