- “I am going to Wait”
- “I Tried to Draw a Straight Line”
- “Did I Point out I am Sorry”
We’re all surrounded by loads of noise. There’s the noise that comes from outdoors — like adverts, social media, the information and the radio — from the individuals and issues round us, however there’s additionally the noise inside your personal head.
Petey has discovered methods to work with that form of noise. It is what fuels a lot of the music on his new album, USA, which generally lyrically reads virtually as a stream of consciousness. That inside-your-head noise can also be what fuels his comedy. Petey’s movies, the place he performs the entire characters coping with each day life, appear to be the fragmenting of a single consciousness.
He began posting these movies on TikTok through the pandemic, a time when many people had been spending loads of time alone with our personal ideas, and he shortly gained a following. On this session, Petey talks about turning into TikTok well-known when you do not even take into account your self an “web particular person,” and we speak about how the pop punk he grew up listening to impressed his new album.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
