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"“OCEAN EYES”: It was weird, because we didn’t plan for it to do anything really. The reason we put it out when we did was that the whole song was meant to be for my dance teacher, because he wanted to use it for a dance. That’s why the production is dance-esque, contemporary, and lyrical. And then it was done, and we were going to wait till Friday to put it out, and thought, “Screw it. Let’s just put it out now.” So we did, and it hit 1,000 the next day. My brother and I were like, “We made it! 1,000—we’re it. That’s our whole career. We’re done.” We thought that was huge deal, which it was at the time, and it still is, but we thought it was because my popular friend reposted it—we didn’t think it was anything besides that. Then Hillydilly found it and Zane Lowe, and it was played on KCRW by Jason Kramer. It kind of went up from there. The Astronomyy remix came out; we didn’t even know, he didn’t ask or tell us, it just was there. He DM’ed me on Instagram asking for the lyrics, and I didn’t know why. I was like, “Okay, here are the lyrics,” and it came out."
"“OCEAN EYES”: It was weird, because we didn’t plan for it to do anything really. The reason we put it out when we did was that the whole song was meant to be for my dance teacher, because he wanted to use it for a dance. That’s why the production is dance-esque, contemporary, and lyrical. And then it was done, and we were going to wait till Friday to put it out, and thought, “Screw it. Let’s just put it out now.” So we did, and it hit 1,000 the next day. My brother and I were like, “We made it! 1,000—we’re it. That’s our whole career. We’re done.” We thought that was huge deal, which it was at the time, and it still is, but we thought it was because my popular friend reposted it—we didn’t think it was anything besides that. Then Hillydilly found it and Zane Lowe, and it was played on KCRW by Jason Kramer. It kind of went up from there. The Astronomyy remix came out; we didn’t even know, he didn’t ask or tell us, it just was there. He DM’ed me on Instagram asking for the lyrics, and I didn’t know why. I was like, “Okay, here are the lyrics,” and it came out."