Naomi McPherson

It also is like, you know, in movies when someone is like...

in a club and then the sound you know is kind of like getting more and more low past yeah and like as someone is becoming more like in their head yeah kind of that totally yeah the place where you go internal in the party even though you're surrounded by people totally yeah it's hard to not get cinematic with it like the the songs i we're not synesthetes uh but i do think there is an aspect of sort of like a visual thing like you want it to feel like how something would look if x y and z

and then try to figure out how to make the music get there.

Honestly, it's, like, funny now that we're performing it, especially, like, you know, we've just done a bunch of shows in New York, and it's, like, it's not like it's a diss track to New York, but it is, like, there's this funny line in it about, like, she's leaving you for New York City, like, eye roll.

What a pity.

It is funny.

It's like, I don't think I really thought about it that much.

I think there was an interest for us in, like, we've been in those neighborhoods for, yeah, like 10 years now.

And we were interested in, like, capturing kind of a sense of the local.

My approach to, like, organizing and political stuff, like, has become a lot more, like, localized, I think, out of a sense of, like, despair for...

affecting things like on a global scale it's become like either more like just like uh one-to-one like mutual aid relationships or like focusing on really local issues and like my local my community and um i think that kind of led to this interest in like

Yeah, like having a song that for us is like... It's really cute because it's like... We had a friend who had a birthday party at Capri last week.

And this is a bar in Eagle Rock.

And we basically have a song for her, you know?

It also feels kind of fun because I think it's very...

accepted and commonplace for people to want to shit on la for some reasons that are maybe grounded in some truth and then some that are just like patently absurd and so it felt i don't know it felt kind of like punk for us to like be like no we like it and toes down yeah we're holding it down but

I think it took on an added layer of meaning for us.

We wrote it, or Katie brought the demo to us in maybe the summer of 2024, I think, and we started working on it, and we were instantly, once we got that, like, the chant, like, post-chorus moment, we were like, oh, we got it.

The song finishes itself from here.

We figured it out.