1994 by Alec Benjamin Song Info
Though “1994” is the last track of Alec’s album "Narrated For You", it is the oldest one out of the 12 since he wrote it when he was only 18. It is a hard-hitting, soulful song, entitled with the year of his birth. He tells the story of his childhood with references to characters and superheroes and events. In his Billboard breakdown of Narrated for You, Alec shared: ""1994" is a coming of age song. In this song, I tried to include and describe certain events that shaped who I am today." In his interview at the Zach Sang Show, Alec Benjamin narrated the process of coming up with the idea and lyrics for his song: "I’ve never really done songwriting sessions before, I just moved our to California and I was with a friend who was like ‘Hey, I know this guy, he’s from Germany […]. Do you wanna write with him? […] I met up with him and we were writing this song in this preschool and I had the chords and he had like a little melody for the verse. […] And then he was like 'Wouldn’t it be cool [to sing] about your generation?’ and I was like ‘What if it’s like: This is where I broke my wrist […]’ and he was like ‘Oh, that’s cool!’. And then we wrote the song."
