![]() This idea often turns out to be entirely inaccurate. – When we start a new project, a new habit, a new business, a new relationship, etc., we have a picture in our heads about how this venture is going to play out once we get started. Our ideals and expectations don’t materialize.This may seem odd at first, but the truth is all setbacks, big and small, burden us in the same ways: What recently caught me off guard, however, is that all these larger setbacks from my past felt somewhat similar to this much smaller setback I’m dealing with now. Now, as you may know from previous posts, Angel and I have coped with much bigger setbacks in the past: losing siblings and best friends to illness and suicide, breadwinning employment layoffs, failed business ventures, financial turmoil, having our possessions wiped out by a hurricane, health issues, and more. It’s such a minor setback, but it’s made me feel a little depressed at times. With a business to run, students to serve, a young child in the house, family occasions, and travel, I’ve missed three days in the first month. And they were inspired by my willingness to stretch my limits.īut I’ve struggled far more than I had anticipated. I chose this lofty goal because several of these students openly admitted that they struggle with getting to the gym. To help motivate a group of course students Angel and I have been working with, I set a goal to exercise for one hour every day for 90 days straight. The song also utilizes the Millennial Whoop.Full disclosure: I set myself a challenge recently, and I’ve been failing at it. (Barnett mentions “the stuttered ‘life’ chorus"-as in "the best day of my li-i-i-i-ife” the “stuttering” also occurs in a recurrent “whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh"-by which he refers to a lyrical tradition of stuttering in rock music, popularized by Buddy Holly, David Bowie ("Ch-Ch-Changes”), Elton John, and others.)īill Lamb, writing for, praised the song’s “opening banjo lick” as “a perfect first hook,” its “irrepressibly upbeat lyrics,” and “a blend of key elements from across a wide range of current successful pop music.” He added, “The bass drum-heavy backing percussion sounds a little like Imagine Dragons, and backed by a pop-punk style "Whoa Oh” chorus, “Best Day of My Life” takes some of the most distinctive elements of a variety of current pop hit genres and blends them into something new." I’ll always remember that song being started on acoustic guitars in my tiny Bushwick bedroom, but all of us together as a band really took the song to a completely different place.“ Looking back on it, the song changed a lot from the initial idea but that’s what I love so much about it. We had the pre-chorus and chorus but once we showed the idea to the rest of the guys they came in and restructured the verses and added the stuttered “life” chorus. … "Best Day of My Life” was an idea that James and I had been messing around with. We’re always open to trying new things and we get very excited to learn new instruments and experiment with new sounds. Africa-influenced rhythms have been taking more of a prominent role in our songs which has then opened up our ideas on melodies. Zac Barnett told an interviewer for Blueprint Magazine, “Recently we have been experimenting with a lot of different instruments including banjo, mandolin, and various percussion toys. They were inspired to write the song to “make people happy and make people feel positive, because that’s something that was missing from rock and from songwriting, just something so simplistic that can be an earworm, that can carry people.” Dave Rublin spoke in a podcast of Songfacts where he disclosed that the song was being written when the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened in 2012. “Best Day of My Life” was originally recorded for release as a single by Mercury Records and Island Records on March 19, 2013, and later appeared as the second track on the band’s third extended play, American Authors (2013), and the third track on their debut studio album, Oh, What a Life (2014). The song was written by band members Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez, and James Adam Shelley, along with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman. “Best Day of My Life” is a song by American pop rock band American Authors.
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