Even if I’m covering thematics that are quite personal and raw and potentially traumatic, it’s always my intention to have a component of hope, or of the wisdom gained from your trauma.
The lyric ‘The grubby fingerprints that kissed the walls have vanished’ meant that the time of Spider-Man climbing up the wall was over. So that memory for me was like a symbol of the time before everything slipped. Once she died, I was separated from my siblings as we were all put through the foster care system.
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My mother used to crack the shits because there was all these grubby fingerprints all the way up this hallway. You had to get your hands either side and your legs either side and shimmy your way up to the top. I have this really strong memory of when I was little-I grew up with four brothers, and we’d play this game where we’d Spider-Man up the hallway clearing. When I wrote this, we’d just started touring a bunch and I missed her death anniversary, so I wrote this as an ode to her memory. We should put it on the album.’ My mother died when I was 11. I was really embarrassed about it, but I showed it to the boys and they were like, ‘This is beautiful. “It’s a window into my adolescence and some of the first writing I’d ever done, when I was 16 or 17. Below, Nai Palm discusses some of her favorite tracks on Choose Your Weapon. Still, the stories behind each song go far deeper than that.
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My favorite musicians are going to hear this.’” Songs from Choose Your Weapon quickly became a favorite of music’s who’s who-those who haven’t heard this album in full have likely heard it sampled on songs by Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Anderson. We had all this support from Prince and Erykah Badu and Questlove, and it really changed how I felt in the studio. But I was 25, and we’d blown up pretty quickly.
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But it’s like when you watch a movie you love and then you watch it again after a while, you always notice something new.” There’s an immense level of detail and creativity that goes into each song by the Melbourne-based future-soul/jazz band, and it’s no surprise that their second album was also their second to receive a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Performance, for the song “Breathing Underwater.” “When it happened the first time, we had Q-Tip on it and everything, but the second time around it was like, ‘Maybe we're doing something right,’” she says. “I think a lot of people miss all the details. “Each song is its own little universe,” Nai Palm tells Apple Music about Hiatus Kaiyote’s approach to songwriting.
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