How I Wrote May 16, By Lagwagon’s Joey Cape

It doesn’t take a genius to work out that Lagwagon’s May 16 – from the band’s 1998 fifth album, Let’s Talk About Feelings – is about events that happened on that very day. Because it is – for reasons Joey himself doesn’t understand – far and away Lagwagon’s most popular song, he’s talked about it a lot over the years, explaining that it was inspired after one of his best friends got married and didn’t invite him to the wedding. But it turns out that it’s actually a bit more complicated than that, as Joey explains below, especially seeing as the pair did later patch things up. Joey has no idea if his friend has ever heard May 16, but, given how many people have heard it, he can’t imagine that he hasn’t. Which makes it all that much more awkward… “When you write a song about someth...

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