Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins on Why He Needed to Write About Black Lives Matter: Interview

One week after crashing the Republican National Convention with a troll-tastic performance that went viral, Third Eye Blind has doubled down on its political speechifying with “Cop vs. Phone Girl,” a new single that directly addresses police brutality and Black Lives Matter. The lead single to an upcoming EP titled We Are Drugs, “Cop vs. Phone Girl” focuses on an officer assaulting a teenage girl, and includes frontman Stephan Jenkins spouting lyrics like, “Why's it so hard to say Black Lives Matter? / Doesn’t mean that you’re anti-white / Take it from me—I’m super fucking white!”