When Omar Apollo finished recording “Evergreen (You Didn’t Deserve Me at All),” the 25-year-old did not expect it to become his first charting single. “I never thought it was going to be the song,”…
finished recording “Evergreen ,” the 25-year-old did not expect it to become his first charting single.. “It meant so much to me, but I never imagined it would resonate the way it has.”
The Indiana-born musician especially took time honing its tear-jerking bridge: “You know you really made me hate myself / Had to stop before I break myself / Should’ve broke it off to date myself / You didn’t deserve me at all.” “The TikTok boost amplified what I already knew but was confused about, and that was which kind of songs I want to make,” Apollo says. “I’m not saying that I’m going to be making music for a platform, but when I’m on tour, singing and seeing people in the front row bawling, it becomes clear to me that those are the types of emotions I was trying to get to when I wrote that song.
“That was 100% exactly where I was with my feelings,” he says. “I’ve been obsessed with Stanley Kubrick, and I’m just so happy it came out the way it did — not just aesthetically, but also what we were able to translate.”
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