“I was halfway through making the album when I heard about it, and it gave what I was doing a lot more meaning suddenly things made a lot more sense.” “I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on my life in the past and what’s ahead of me,” he said. In a 2015 interview with Billboard, Parker said he turned 29 while writing Currents, and became fascinated by the Saturn return, an astrology term for the massive life transition people often experience around that age. During the chorus, his past and current selves battle it out to the tune of distorted drums and a grumbling bassline: After the pompous “feel like a brand new person” comes the lingering, ominous echo, “but you’ll make the same old mistakes.” “I know that it’s hard to digest/ a realization is as good as a guess,” bandleader Kevin Parker sings, another tough pill to swallow from an album that might as well be a medicine cabinet. “New Person, Same Old Mistakes,” the woozy, six-minute long kicker, cautions listeners to be skeptical of anyone’s well-intentioned ability to change - including that of the narrator himself. Then, in the final track, he’s nearly back to square one.
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