Home Improvement

Album: X's for Eyes (2024)
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  • When The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus released their new song "Home Improvement" in 2024, fans noted that it sounds a lot like their old stuff, complete with a lyric where frontman Ronnie Winter is going through turmoil in a relationship as the world changes around him.

    Well, it turns out it is an old song, dating back to 2004. The band made demos back then but didn't record it until 20 years later.

    "In 2004, as a local, unsigned band out of Jacksonville, Florida, we recorded a batch of songs," Winter explained. "The song's about growing up, making mistakes, trying to get better - the stuff everyone goes through."
  • The title doesn't show up in the lyric but implies that Ronnie Winter is trying to get his metaphorical house in order. When the song was written in 2004, the TV series Home Improvement was seen in reruns, so that title was floating around.
  • The music video was a family affair. It was directed by Ronnie Winter's wife Angela and includes an appearance by his son Wolfie, who plays the younger brother of a teenager who enters a kind of digital time portal as he's doing some mindless scrolling, coming across the song on an archaic website that resembles MySpace, where The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus were huge back in 2006.

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