This album is the product of that.
We just wanted to make something that we thought was quite fun—everything is sort of operating with a little bit of humor, and Mike's solo exists relative to the intensity and the mania of the song as potentially a little hat tip.
Santa does not go on vacation in Aruba.
Using religious metaphors and my knowledge from that time of my life felt exciting and genuine.
And he waves, or she, and you stand there and you feel, 'Argh.
It was an actual picture of an actual artist on the rise.