Aaron Dessner
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47 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Aaron Dessner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, wow.
That one's interesting.
It's actually what you hear when that song starts.
You hear the air conditioning in the backstage of an arena in Germany where the National was playing, where I wrote it, because it was really cold.
It was like a hockey arena in Germany or something.
An awful, awful situation.
But then that's me patting my leg, you know, like playing drums on my leg, which I often do, which I kind of learned... I learned over time that if you record yourself like playing...
surfaces or your body and record it with an iPhone.
It just sounds cool.
I wrote the music first and Taylor wrote to it.
I think she said that when she heard that sound of the, what is me like playing my, my thigh essentially, um, that it reminded her of someone walking like on cobblestones and high heels, like unevenly.
And that gave her, um,
An image in her mind sort of like led her into the narrative that she wrote.
That's wild.
I'm going to debunk that.
It's a good story how this happened.
Taylor was, she actually, she arranged those vocals to go at the end of the song.
So she was doing those choral, like these angelic
choral parts over the end of the last chorus of the song that you hear when you listen to the song.
You'll hear her doing that.
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