Trivia / bill wurtz

• Doing It for the Art: Bill's gone on record a handful of times explaining his distaste for advertisement culture, and that despite being regularly approached by companies offering "ridiculous sums of money up front", he declines every time. He offers his music, videos, and other website content completely for free without ads, and while he uploads to streaming services, sells merchandise, and has a Patreon and public PayPal link for donations, he doesn't regularly promote them.
• Extremely Lengthy Creation: According to Bill in his questions section◊, "here comes the sun" had been in the works since at least 2010. By that year, he'd only written a first verse and half the first pre-chorus, and it didn't get a "real chorus" until 2012. Even when the song was fully-written and privately held with a "strongest song in the list" status, he was afraid to complete it for years until it finally got a music video release in 2021.
• Meme Acknowledgment: Asking “Is the sun a deadly lazer?” in the question section of his website will award you with the “creative question award”.
• Reclusive Artist: Bill often lets his work speak for himself, and otherwise maintains a private and reserved internet presence. He only very sporadically uses social media and gives interviews, and while he's generally most active on his own website (mainly responding to the "questions" page), that still isn't saying much — his biography only contains the lines "accidentally came to earth. it's weird".
• Schedule Slip: His Twitter and YouTube went silent in 2019, mainly due to him learning how to use video editing software (as well as, apparently going to school for it too). He did not re-emerge until January 2021.
• Throw It In!: "9 8 7" ends on the line "one-one-meef! Meef?". According to Bill, he didn't write a proper lyric to end the song with beyond having an "—ee—" syllable, and during the writing, he spontaneously tried the word "meef", much to his own confusion. He decided to leave it in, and in his words, "it was a genuinely improvised moment in the writing session that was faithfully re-enacted in the studio recording."
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Bill describes his writing style as being heavily front-to-back, with him starting on a musical or lyrical idea and simply following it with whatever feels natural in any given moment. If it seems like his music is built directly out of a random stream of consciousness, that's because it likely is.

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