SomeKindaWonderful Performs "Reverse" Live in the YH Studio

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Eclectic band SomeKindaWonderful visits the YH Studio where we get to know them a little better, including their tour essentials, how they came together, and the story behind their #ButterflyMilitia campaign, plus they treat us to a live, stripped-down performance of their breakout single, "Reverse"!
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Uh, we are some kind of wonderful and uh, this is our song Reverse.
Hey, I'm Say What? Say Ra, and I play percussion and sing backing vocals and some kind of wonderful.
We gotta work on that.
Hi, I'm Matt and I play guitar in some kind of wonderful.
Hey, I'm Jordy from Some Kind of Wonderful and I'm the lead singer of Some Kind of Wonderful.
I said don't trip it was just a sleepover.
See, we was just making friends, she said.
Then what were you doing there at 4:00 in the morning?
You told me you were at home.
Well, the first time that I heard reverse on the radio.
Um, I actually was just online and I saw people posting about it and so I had to like hurry up and find satellite access and tune in and it just randomly worked out that way.
Well, when we found each other, it was it was pretty apparent that it was right because uh, we wrote reverse about 4 hours later.
Um, we uh, went right into the studio from the bar, it was literally like two blocks away and uh, the bar we met and uh, we just recorded reverse and it just uh, I don't know, I we just knew that there was something special, we just knew there was magic there.
I did it quiet so that I wouldn't wake her.
Woke up in another girl's bed.
I tell my story in reverse 'cause it hurts.
Girl it hurts too much to bear.
But I'm tantalized by their legs and long hair.
#butterflymilitia to me, it's kind of means an army of beauty and positivity.
In, like Jordy said, in a world where there's so much negativity going on.
It's just like a symbol of like, you know, a beautiful, peaceful, you know, animal.
And the militia aspect is just like a united, you know, front fighting that good fight.
The Butterfly Militia means to me and to us, um, it's kind of a peace army, you know?
Um, we kind of believe, you know, that the world's kind of, I mean we all kind of know that the world's headed down, you know, paths of war and greed and, I mean, we can't even trust, we can't trust anyone, you know?
And we just, you know, we want to be that, I don't know, at least you can trust the musicians singing your favorite song, you know?
And that's what the Butterfly Militia is.
But if I could do it again, I would do it again.
If I could do it again, I would do it again.
If I could do it again, I'd probably do it again.
Could I get a do over?
Baby.
If I could bring anything on tour, uh, it would just have to be all of like my posters of Prince, because I've been married to him secretly since I was like nine years old.
And I bring him everywhere because that's what people do when they're married.
They just bring a piece of their partner with them, so I would just bring all my, love you, baby.
If I could have the craziest stage plot imaginable, well, I've always wanted to float in as if I'm flying onto the stage.
So like, enter as if I'm like an angel flying to the stage.
I mean, once that happened, I mean, I'm not too concerned with anything else on the stage plot.
You are an angel.
I tell my story in reverse 'cause it hurts.
Girl it hurts too much to bear.
But I'm tantalized by their legs and long hair.
But if I could do it again, I would do it again.
If I could do it again, I would do it again.
If we could, if I could compare our music to a bag of potato chips, uh, it would be Munchies.
Okay.
Because Munchies is just a a mixture of all the best stuff.
And I feel like that's like what we, we're we're a mixture of all that good, good, good stuff, you know what I mean?
I don't know.
Well, I think the most uh, scariest thing about putting out a new song is you it's your baby and you you feel like your baby is beautiful already.
And so there may be some anxiety about, well, how is everyone else going to treat my baby?
Again.
If I could do it again, could I get a do over.
It's over.
Yeah.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Say Ra
Percussionist and backing vocalist for SomeKindaWonderful
- Matt
Guitarist for SomeKindaWonderful
- Jordy
Lead singer for SomeKindaWonderful
- Prince
Artist whose posters Jordy would bring on tour
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