Carpet

Frenship is a Los Angeles pop duo comprised of James Sunderland and Brett Hite. This song was written during a stressful time in James Sunderland's life where he "was feeling like I couldn't get my feet under me." He explained to Billboard magazine: "It's about a conversation I had with an ex while we were lying on the carpet floor of my room and she was telling me I had to 'do more' with my life. It's a conversation that still rings in my head to this day."

Speaking of carpets, here some fun facts about the textile floor covering from The Encyclopedia of Trivia: The technique of weaving carpets is thought to have originated in Persia in ancient times, and spread to Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Anatolia, where characteristic forms developed as folk art and in court workshops. Cleopatra, once wrapped herself up in a carpet as a gift for Julius Caesar. When he unrolled it, he found the beautiful Egyptian queen. When the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe (1753-1831), disembarked from a riverboat in Georgetown, South Carolina and his welcoming party greeted him with a red carpet. This was one of the earliest reported instances of a ceremonial red carpet. Melville Bissell had a china shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was allergic to the dusty straw scattered on the floor after unpacking china from crates. So, he invented the first carpet sweeper in 1876 to clean up the mess and protect his sinuses. In 1901 the British engineer Hubert Booth patented an electrically powered machine, which he demonstrated extracting dust from carpets by suction; he called it a 'vacuum cleaner'. The machine was mounted on a horse-drawn wagon, and equipped with a long tube for access into buildings. The length of the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre where the Academy Awards are held is about 500 feet. The width is 33 feet.