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Inspiration for Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations came from The Vaccines‘ frontman Justin Young’s time spent living in Los Angeles, when he would listen to the evocative story-telling of Don McLean’s American Pie and ponder its, ‘disillusionment with America and the American dream’, and the writer’s feeling that, ‘something had died’:
I guess I was coming to terms with similar things – my understanding of what the real West Coast of America was, after growing up on a diet of American pop culture. That was all coming to a head as various relationships were ending. That was the seed of it. It’s about the loss of dreams.
This mindset poured into singles such as Sometimes, I Swear, of which Young said: “I don’t think there are many places on the planet where I feel so at peace as sitting in my own home, but even there I constantly question my place in the world.”
