"Bad Ideas" is a 2019 album by American musician Tessa Violet. It was released on October 25, 2019 by T∆G Music on yellow vinyl. "Bad Ideas" was first announced on Violet’s YouTube channel where she described the album as “the theme of my life thus far.” Here, Violet also announced the launch of a Patreon to help fund the project, with the original plan to release a single as different monetary goals were reached. However, this idea was later dropped at the request of her marketing team and replaced with the single, “Crush.” The album was originally planned for release in June or July of 2018 and later the date August 3rd was circulated. Later the plan was to release the album in three EP’s, separated into Acts I, II and III, dropping “one song at a time.” Violet explained in an interview with Dailycal her reasoning behind the plan: "It was really important to me, if we were going to do this release plan to do them in the order that they’re on the album because I feel it’s a story that’s being told." However, she ultimately decided that this plan would take too long and that not every song on the album was single-worthy. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.