Waterparks graced fans with two demos, “CALL ME BEEP ME” and “TALKING TO MYSELF.” The drop follows the cancellation of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 2: LOST IN THE PROPERTY and the releases of “Guilt” and later “GH2024.”
On Friday, August 2, the group took to Instagram to announce the cancellation of what would have been their sixth full-length album. “I no longer feel good about INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 2: LOST IN THE PROPERTY and will be canceling the release,” the statement reads. “The sheer amount of unprecedented mishaps, bureaucratic red tape, and bizarre things that have gone wrong truly has me believing the universe is working against this project and I’m tired of fighting it. It sounds dramatic but without going into every specific detail, this album feels haunted.”
The band released “GUILT (INTERLUDE)” and its accompanying short film a day later to officially close out the era.
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On August 16, the group released “GH2024,” a re-recorded medley of their 2021 LP Greatest Hits. Frontman Awsten Knight said that if fans got “GH2024” to 300,000 Spotify streams before September began, they would be rewarded with the “CALL ME BEEP ME DEMO.” Listeners took on the challenge and made the goal with days to go.
Waterparks posted to socials saying, “YALL GOT ME OUT HERE EDITING THIS CALL ME BEEP ME DEMO MAD AS HELL, TEARS IN MY EYES.” The band later released a clip of Knight playing through a clip of “CALL ME BEEP ME” to Instagram on August 25. An official recording had never been released.
While “CALL ME BEEP ME” was a promised prize, “TALKING TO MYSELF” is a nice surprise. When speaking about “TALKING TO MYSELF” on TikTok, Knight says the track was written sometime last year when he went to his parent’s house and comments on how his emotions affected the songwriting process.
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“I love Houston, I love going home to it and everything,” he shares. “But it’s also hard to be in my childhood bedroom and not feel the feelings that I felt while I was in there. I was so worried for so many years and felt so insignificant and all this stuff. The song definitely reflects that. I kind of forced myself to write. I was just looking around the room and writing about things in it, and that’s how it started.”
“Tons of Waterparks music gets made. But I was kind of singing that one to myself, like six months later,” Knight continues. “I was like ‘Okay, while I don’t really know if these are necessarily album tracks… (but) if I wasn’t in the band, I’d still want to hear these.”
Check out “CALL ME BEEP ME” and “TALKING TO MYSELF” demos below.
