Behind The Tracks: Phantom Bay - No One Likes (Single) (2022)

“No One Likes” is a song about being ambitious and following your passions, but slowly learning that the dream you’re chasing is someone else’s. It’s a song about fake motivations that eventually leaves you unhappy, even if you’ve achieved your goals.

“I (Michael) wrote a sketch of this song in 2012, 9 years before recording this record, and had kept the demo on my phone ever since. It was relieving to finally turn the idea into a full song. The song’s structure is unconventional: no part repeats, yet the song is catchy and sticks. The lyrics took me a long time to write, but once I had the first line of the verse, the remaining words followed quickly. The breakdown at the end of the song is my favorite moment on the album.”