All Of The People

Album: Chaos for the Fly (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • You think I'm about you
    Well, I'm not
    The center of my world, is a hotspot
    You think that you know me
    You're below me
    And you don't


    "All Of The People" is a dark song from Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten's solo debut album, Chaos For The Fly. He penned during a difficult time, upset by somebody who'd turned out to be a false friend. Feeling suspicious and bitter, Chatten felt as if he wanted to draw a line under humanity as a whole.
  • Chatten is grateful for the bleak song because it let him blow the poison that was inside his head into a bottle, seal the bottle, and put it on a shelf.

    "About a month passed and the individual in that song had already started to feel like a snapshot of someone else," he told Uncut magazine. "I was almost embarrassed by the lyrics when I wrote it; it was so crudely misanthropic, there's a line in it which says, 'people are scum,' and I thought it might have been a bit too much, but I decided that it was valid because it's how I felt in the moment."
  • Chatten recorded Chaos for the Fly in two weeks with Fontaine D,C.'s regular producer Dan Carey. The album explores the personal misery that Chatten wasn't comfortable sharing with his bandmates. He explained to Uncut that when he wrote the songs for the record he was going through "tough patches... my personal life was in tatters and I didn't feel like I had anyone to turn to. That loneliness gave way to a lot of bitterness, alongside skepticism, cynicism, judgment and paranoia."
  • Dan Carey played the guitar and funeral piano on the track and Violeta Vicci the violin. An artist and musician of Catalan-Swiss descent, Vicci contributed to six Chaos For The Fly cuts. She also played on Fontaines D.C.'s cover of Nick Drake's "Cello Song."

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