Parker McCollum has been pretty open with his weed consumption. However, it turns out that some of his best hits have been written while high.
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The "Handle On You" singer recently sat down with Bunnie XO on the Dumb Blonde podcast. Bunnie being Bunnie, she couldn't resist asking him about his weed and DMT consumption and how it affected him writing music.
Again, McCollum has gone on record before about getting high. But it turns out the drug has played a huge part in his writing process.
Interestingly, he prefaced the conversation by saying that he "never really liked alcohol." Between booze and weed, "Weed has always been the lesser [evil] of the two" in the singer's eyes. So he's had no problem getting stoned and writing music.
"Some of the best songs I've ever written in my career, I wrote after taking a little hit, and just letting it go," he explained. Parker McCollum even said he believes that "Some of the greatest records of all time are written stoned."
He never name-dropped any songs, however, but it sounds like a lot of his hits were written while high in the sky.
Parker McCollum Has Switched From Weed To Adderall
Later in the episode, after detailing how his partying and drug consumption got out of hand, spoke on writing sober, and revealed the other drug he'll use for writing songs now.
Although he doesn't regret his relationship with weed and partying, he has largely removed himself from the drugs.
Bunnie asked him if he feels he needs to be under an influence to write songs. To which he said, "Not really."
McCollum explained that he wrote the song "Rest Of My Life" during COVID while he was "stone-cold sober."
Although he had gone "pretty hard the night before," he was completely sober when penning the powerful song.
He may not be high anymore when writing new songs, but for the most part, he won't be under the influence of nothing.
"I'll take an adderall to write songs sometimes, and that gets me super into it," he shared. "It makes me super emotional, and passionate, and engaged about a melody that I've created on the guitar."
Whether he's on something or not, one thing is true. The man can write a good song.
