Everything You Never Told Your Straight Friend You Were in Love With
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Do you need to ugly cry over the straight best friend who you never had the chance to tell your feelings to? Then Dear McCracken, from 2018, is for you.
The song was written by Seattle singer/songwriter Bug Chaser who told Alt Revue:
“I am always writing music. I consider myself a songwriter before anything else, and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t write down something that I will try to use later. It could be an interesting thing I saw, a clever line I thought up on the bus, an odd phrase that might be a killer chorus-ender. My friends are used to me having to pause and type something out on my phone quickly before I forget. When I get a chance to sit down with my guitar and come up with melodies, I reference these notes and try to put things together.
For example: my song “Dear McCracken” is 100% based on a true story. I still have the note on my phone that I typed as I was getting off the plane. About four days later I sat down and started writing: “I just stepped on a plane, my bags on the shelf…” and told the story, essentially word-for-word.
Not all my songs are so narrative, but I always get a kick out of scrolling through these notes and seeing how they manifest into finished songs – sometimes exactly, sometimes as loose inspiration.”
Writer Casper Pirro said:
Chase and Ozzie were best friends since they were young. And for as long as Chase has known Ozzie, he has had a crush on his best friend. Being a closeted gay young man, he never had his chances to say his feelings. Now they are adults, and their paths have crossed after two decades of lost contact. What happens between the two? Stories are always interesting when they are read over someone’s shoulder.
The video was nominated best music video at the New York Teen Indie Awards 2019.
Watch it below.
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