This is how ‘Heaven’ started life.
Blink-182‘s ‘NINE’ hasn’t even been out for a week, but we’ve already been treated to a peak behind the album.
Travis Barker has revived his YouTube channel for the first time in almost a year, and shared the demo of ‘NINE’ album track ‘Heaven’. Accompanying the track upload was a short explanation, with Travis sharing “This demo inevitably turned into ‘Heaven’ on ‘NINE’ – blink-182 album. It was a small piece of a 45 minute jam / writing session with my friend Chris Greatti. The rest is history.”
The track doesn’t have any vocals, but you can absolutely hear how this was shaped into the final version of ‘Heaven’ which appeared on the album.
Speaking with Vogue, blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus shared about ‘Heaven’ that it’s written about the 2018 mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California. “It means a lot to me personally,” Mark shared. “What started off as a song about broken hearts became a song about living in America in 2019.”
Check out the demo of blink-182’s ‘Heaven’ below:
And check out the final, album version of ‘Heaven’ below: