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So they pick this small, elite group of kids, make a TV show about them, and it paints a really bad picture of the place I grew up. Five percent of the people that live in Laguna Beach are of their social stature and money bracket.
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They pick eight of the most wealthy, popular kids. Was the portrayal of the town way off base? I mean, college kids are super mean, but it was really fucking stupid. Uh, a couple times people even snubbed me, stopped talking to me. At least the first couple years I was in school I tried to not tell people where I was from because it would always turn into some ridiculous conversation. It went from an already popular beach town to like ridiculously overcrowded in the summer. The following years there were all of these people moving into Laguna Beach because of the show. It was a really disappointing time to watch all of these great things from your childhood get destroyed.
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We were all just fucking pissed off, because it was our town, you know? It was ridiculous what happened the next couple years after that, because it was already dying because of the money that had moved into Laguna Beach. It was only happening when I was a senior. It was like, “Oh man, I get to put out a record? This is insane!” It was more like that.Īnd you actually grew up in Laguna Beach while they were filming the show? It wasn’t like, “Oh my God, I should like drop out, because this shit’s crazy right now,” or whatever. But it wasn’t blossoming while I was in school. To put it best I can, I just wanted to get out of school as soon as I could.
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You started putting music out while you were still in high school. It’s just, you get a little older and you’ve lived - just from existing in time, hopefully you’re gonna change a little bit. Like, it’s like everything that’s happened. I’ve had a long-term girlfriend, then we broke up, was in school, then graduated, lived in many different houses, worked many different jobs. This is my main source of income and stuff like that. Now I’m doing this as a job, not just for fun. How have things changed over the five years that you’ve been putting out music? I had it in the past, and I try to not have it. So there’s this strange numbness I see in people these days, and I don’t know what causes that, but it’s definitely there. All these things, like, they’re not really gonna make you happy. Then there’s like settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. There’s the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. There’s a lot of different ways to talk about it, which is what all the different songs are about. There’s definitely a theme: This numb happiness that I’ve gone through, and that I see people going through. It feels like there’s a theme running through the album … We just weren’t gonna stop until it was done. We recorded it in my buddy’s basement, so we just had all the time in the world. We were trying to make the best we could, and we actually had time to do it, and we had the resources. Like, Melted took three months or something, and Lemons took two weeks, and that first record took, like, five days. It took me about six months to fully get where I was going. You spent six months on Goodbye Bread, a relatively lengthy amount of time for you. Vulture got on the phone with Segall to talk Bread and the truth about Kristin Cavallari. Oh, one other thing: Early in his life, while growing up in the idyllic beach town of Laguna Beach, California, Ty had a brief brush with the MTV reality-TV machine. But the Über-prolific Segall has never been one to stand still: On last month’s Goodbye Bread, he threw his sound completely out the window in favor of something slower and softer - and just as indelibly catchy as the rest of his lengthy back catalogue. Last year, California scuzz-rocker Ty Segall dropped Melted and all but cemented his place atop the heap of sounds-like-it-was-recorded-30-years-ago garage rock.