Four Chords is the first track off PUP’s fourth LP, THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND. It imagines PUP as an organized mega-corporation on the brink of failing, with the actual members of the band as its “board of directors.” This song sets up the motif for the album’s other deeply post-ironic, self-refe...
[Verse]
Quarterly meetings, the board of directors
We try and determine how best to proceed
I said, "I play piano, I started learning last Thursday
I spent every cent of the label money on this thing
Show me four chords
It should be enough to make something that nobody wanted, and
All your friends, they hate my guts
They only listen to noise punk or nothin'
And they haven't listened to any new music since college
It all makes them sick to their stomachs
And I never liked them, so they can all shove it"
(Fuck)
Four Chords was written by Steve Sladkowski & Zack Mykula & Nestor Chumak & Stefan Babcock.
Four Chords was produced by PUP & Peter Katis.
PUP released Four Chords on Fri Apr 01 2022.
It’s funny because there’s never been any piano on any PUP record, or keys or synthesisers of any kind, and we started this record with the stupidest piano ballad of all time. In one sense, it’s so un-PUP to have a piano ballad, but in another sense, it’s incredibly PUP to do something that dumb to...