Like there's a guitar riff or something simple, and then it just kind of expands from there. Much later we get to a point where we can decide if it's going on an album or not, or if it's going in the don't-open-until-Christmas pile!įor 'Big Casino,' everything starts as an experimentation and then a reaction to that. It's really just about the song and what we think the song needs. I think that there hasn't been an actual Jimmy Eat World song written since 1996! There is no consideration for how it's going to end up or where it's going to end up. There is really no set way that a Jimmy Eat world song comes into existence. He replied: 'I think overall there are no real rules for how we work on tunes.
asked Adkins who came up with the idea of this song.