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Question: Tell me about writing “Gary”..
Stephen Wilson Jr.: “I wrote it by myself. I wrote in the car that day. I always write my lyrics first, and so I wrote the chorus right there, just driving. It was almost more like a freestyle kind of beat poet. Just stream of consciousness. Debbie just kind of showed up because every Gary I know is kind of associated with a Debbie. They kind of come from the same yearbook, And so, yeah, all those. Those names just kind of started showing up in everything about, you know, I didn’t really try to think about the song at all. I wasn’t trying to make words rhyme. I was just trying to paint the picture of a Gary and that kind of small town. Gary and Debbie characters or characters, if you will, that are I think omnipresent in all these small towns all over the world. It’s not just an American theme. It’s a global one. Gary’s are global.”
