"Part of the original idea of this band was to separate the narrator of the song from the artist," explains Park, who at 34 is the youngest in a band whose other members are barely in their 40s. "The person singing is not always going to be singing something that is autobiographical, or is something that they wrote."
"Usually, who sings the song has less to do with who wrote it and more to do with what would sound best," says Combs, who began assembling the D.C. quartet a decade ago. "Sometimes we make those decisions last-minute in the studio, and" - he smiles - "we realize later that we've made a mistake."
"It adds a lot of time and effort to the arranging of every song," the drummer acknowledges. "Every recording engineer we've ever had has under-budgeted the time it will take to record vocals. Because they don't understand how involved it can be."
"It's less likely that someone would say 'I think this line is dumb' than 'I don't know if this line matches my voice, or my personality,' says Tyler-Ameen. "That's the kind of trading and negotiating that we end up doing."
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