Fog as a Bullet

Fog as a Bullet

The Marías

Well, that song came about because of the death of Kobe Bryant. A couple of days prior to when that happened, I was just in our living room, looking at the nice little view that we have of the hills, and it was really foggy. When the fog is there, it just makes the world look softer, almost as if there’s a different lens over your eyes, and I thought it was just so pretty, so beautiful. Then two days later, it was that same exact fog that also brought death to a lot of people, so it’s just like, “How can something so beautiful cause so much destruction?”

It was the start of 2020, and being in L.A. when that happened, there was collective mourning. Shortly after that, the fires happened and then the pandemic, so I think that was the start of this shared mourning. I wrote that at Josh’s dad’s house in Josh’s childhood room. I was there by myself, sitting on the bathroom floor, just singing the song, and I thought, “This is so sad, but it’s how I feel.” I feel like it’s how a lot of people felt and still feel right now.