this song is about me and how i full on literally do not want to be your friend i don't like seriously stop asking omg idk why ur so obsessed with me jesus you're bringing me down

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Always the popular kid in high school, Tien Cortez had started writing songs and amassed quite the collection before leaving school, ditching study and diving headfirst into being a musician. After experiencing both sides of the equation - being the one breaking up with friends and being the one left behind post high school, that juxtaposition helped Cortez turn an old demo into his new single, "I Don't Want To Be Your Friend" which is out on April 24th. "I wrote it when I was like 17... but it’s still relevant now at 21. People always grow apart no matter how long they’ve known each other and how great things used to be." he explains.

Raised on the Gold Coast and now residing in Brisbane, Tien has written songs from an early age, by the time he turned 16 he had already written an astonishing 300 songs. Tien explains, "I started writing songs when I was 14 to pass the time because I was always bored...This resulted in probably a plethora of 300 songs written by the time I was 16...I taught myself how to record and produce, then started releasing songs privately amongst my friends in 2018 that I’d made entirely myself."

The new single flows on from previous EP I Think Ur A Joke, which gained traction on community radios, especially 4ZZZ. From the last EP, Tien gained much more confidence in his production skills, recording "I Don't Want to Be Your Friend" himself. "This originally was supposed to be just the demo for the song, but I ended up constantly going back and re-recording parts and fine-tuning everything and in the end I’d noticed it sounds exactly how I wanted it to sound. I spent hours on each instrument until it was what I wanted and kept adding and taking out lines until it was done." says Tien. The track was mixed by Bernie Wedrat from Twisted Robot and Mastered by Andrew Edgson at Studio 301.