“One of the early conversations we had was about how indie rock always does the unintentional
thing, so that it doesn’t have an opportunity to fail,” Perron said. By this, he meant, say,
a band in T-shirts, looking tough, standing in the back of a warehouse—authenticity as a euphemism
for the absence of an idea. “But we wanted pop-level intention.”
“The best ideas are the ones that might turn out to be terrible ideas,” Clark said.