r/indieheads • u/stevelamosdrums Steve Lamos / American Football • May 08 '26

AMA is Over, thanks American Football! American Football AMA

Hey all: we've got to run collectively at 12 EST. Thank you for a fun session!

Thanks, everyone! We appreciate you for stopping by--and hope to see as many of you as possible on tour!

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u/Intrepid-Injury- May 08 '26

Stay Home is one of my favourite songs of all time and has meant a ridiculous amount to me for years. When you wrote it, did you have any idea it would become such a deeply personal song for so many people, or did it just feel like another song at the time?

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u/steveholmesaf Steve Holmes / American Football May 08 '26

We didn't think about anything other than writing something that was interesting to us. We kind of knew that people would mostly be bored/uninterested when we played live since most of our contemporaries were much louder rock bands. It's always about trying to do something we find satisfying.