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1. **Q:** How did you come up with “Hunger of the Pine”?
**A:** I drew my inspiration for Hunger of the Pine from a variety of sources, both personal and broad themes of love, desire, longing and rebellion. It was our attempt to make a song that captures the intensity and complications that human emotions can create.
2. **Q:** The song’s lyrics are full of imagery and metaphorical language. Can you explain how you went about creating such provocative lyrics?
**A:** We get creative ideas from different areas including literature, poetry and personal experiences. Our aim is to use poetic yet comprehensible words for listeners to interpret them in their own way.
3. **Q:** The song touches on subjects like vulnerability and longing for things or people. What does this mean to you personally?
**A:** Vulnerability and desire are things we all go through at some point in life, they are part of what makes us human beings as well as an aspect that we wanted to deal with honestly and authentically.
4. **Q:** In your song, there is this chorus “Hunger of the pine” which recurs throughout it.What significance does this phrase have to you?
**A:** This phrase ‘hunger of the pine’ symbolizes an overwhelming never-ending craving that all humans feel sometimes.This theme connects desire with natural forces through use of word ‘pine’, adding more nature-like connotations.
5. **Q:** Also there is a touch of rebellion and defiance in your music, what inspired these feelings?
**A:** The core focus in our music has always been revolving around rebellion and defiance.We believe in questioning established norms as well as breaking free from societal expectations while Hunger for Pine expresses our ethos.
6. **Q:** There’s a mysterious quality added by the bilingual section of the song. Why did you decide to include French language in this track?
**A:** The use of French was aimed at giving it a universal feeling and a sense of being beyond the normal songs that people are used to. It adds a poetic and mysterious quality to the lyrics, inviting listeners to interpret them in their own way.
7. **Q:** The imagery of soldiers marching outside the window is particularly striking. What message were you trying to convey with this imagery?
**A:** Soldiers marching by her window symbolizes external conflict and oppression.It adds tension and urgency as aspects of rebellion and defiance are brought out within it.
8. **Q:** Can you walk us through what happened during the recording process for “Hunger on Pine”?
**A:** We recorded Hunger on Pine as a group so we all contributed something towards its production. We tried too many sounds and arrangements before we got the right mix for our song’s mood and atmosphere.
9. **Q:** How do you hope listeners will interpret and connect with “Hunger of the Pine”?
**A:** I want listeners to make their own interpretations of ‘Hunger for Pines’ give them some personal relations.Regardless of whether they find connection in lyrics, tune or overall resonance created by this music, our aim is always to make music have deep meaning inside people’s hearts.
10. **Q:** What kind of message do you want to communicate to your audience through your music?
**A:** In the end, however, we are aiming at getting our music to reflect rawness, genuineness, originality. We like urging listeners to be reflective skeptics who dare not conform and love their unique selves.
