GAVIN DEGRAW TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW VERSION AND RELEASES “I DON’T WANT TO BE (CHARIOT 20)” (AUDIO AND VIDEO)

How does it feel recreating “I Don’t Want To Be”?
When I think about recreating specifically a song, like, “I Don’t Want To Be”, I wrote the song out of desperation, right, it was a desperate time in my life. And the song became very, very successful for me and it changed my life. Going back and rerecording “Chariot 20”. They went from desperation to celebration and that’s what “Chariot 20” really became and the entire making of the record, and even a song like “I Don’t Want To Be”, where it was written from and what it became. Amazingly enough, it’s a celebration record.

“I Don’t Want To Be (Chariot 20)” – Story Behind The Song
Well, regarding this song,”I Don’t Want To Be” as far as all the other songs that are on the record. There’s one particularly important word in the chorus of “I Don’t Want To Be”, which is the word lately. The word lately was important that I put that in for me. I thought, well, I don’t want to have to. If someone says, oh, well, you used to do this, and now you’re such and such doing that. That’s why I wrote that word lately and because I knew that over time, you can, there’s going to be some changes in your mentality or, your perspective. I mean, if I thought exactly like I did when I wrote that song, if I still felt exactly like that right now, I’d say that then there was no personal growth. There should be, hopefully some level of personal growth, you know, not that not that I’m like the be all, end all example of any of that stuff. That’s not me at all, but, you know, from 20 years ago, that would be the most important word in that whole song.

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