That was actually our label at the time, Carpark. We were like, “Hey, Carpark, this is a song that we adapted.” It is a real adaption. We changed the keys, the time signature, and the lyrics. At the time, we were about to release our record; nobody knew who we were, [and] we were expecting to sell about 500 copies. This is when we were in Baltimore. This is a record we recorded in our basement in a day. So it came out and, of course, nobody from Tony, Caro and John [knew] – we didn’t even know who they were. This was just a record we found in our friend’s store. We didn’t even know if they were still alive. It was actually only with Teen Dream that they finally got in touch with us and were like, “Hey …”
We were like, yeah, sorry, the CDs were printed, we had no idea anyone was even going to buy this record. So we settled everything with them and they’re fine and we’re fine. We made sure all the necessary royalties go to them and all that stuff and they’re in the index as the co-writers. Obviously not the recording side, the musical side. So we settled everything with them and made sure they were paid properly. Basically, we were 23-year-old kids and had no idea how any of that stuff worked when we did that. But now we do. it’s tricky with all the royalties and everything.
– Alex Scally on Phoenix New Times