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A lot of the music comes out of that conflict of wanting this other thing and feeling guilty about wanting it, and then it guiding me somewhere despite my kicking and screaming.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Conflict
Guiding
Screaming
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As soon as we wrote the beat for 'Romeo,' I knew it was a running song. I was thinking about it in terms of the body. What do you want to do? It's not a song you want to dance to.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Romeo
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It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Artist
Guy
Hip Hop
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My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Calm
Divorced
Me Parents Young
Independently
Soothe
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'Ashes Of Love' has much more hot-blooded vocal than what PC Music is known for, and a much harder production than what I usually do, so I was fully prepared for people to hate it.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Ashes
Harder
Prepared
Vocal
Love Music Hate
Fully
Production
Pc
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And a pang is ultimately private. It's not a thing that gets broadcast to the world; it's a kind of internal alarm that sounds when something has to change and it has to change fast.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Alarm
Broadcast
Internal
Pang
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But I never imagined that I could ever have a career in music. I always thought it was like a mafia, that you had to sell your soul and know the right people and be in the right place.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Music Soul People
Right People
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I guess this song isn't about anything necessarily sad, but it makes me sad just because it makes me think about how inaccessible the past is, but it's called 'Boy Child' by Scott Walker.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Inaccessible
Scott
Walker
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If you want to know what the DJ is playing, just ask. You don't have the right to stick your head in front of my screen as if you're an expert leaning over the shoulder of the apprentice.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Apprentice
Dj
Expert
Leaning
Shoulder
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Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It's a landscape of the mind.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Environmental
Landscape
Mixing
Psychological
Music Thinking Mind
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Low' was probably the album that influenced me more than any other, because of how it combined humor and impressive, glamorous, driving energy with this totally surreal soundscape production.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Glamorous
Surreal
Combined
Influenced
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When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Distinction
Simplistic
Underground
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I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Commit
Japan
Both My Parents
Fluently
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But synthesizer music has been accepted as emotional for long enough that it isn't a huge reach, conceptually, to think of a fake voice as 'emotional', especially since there's a human composing it.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Accepted
Composing
Fake
Music Enough Long
Reach
Synthesizer
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My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Belgium
Fancy
Castle
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Stepfather
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I was born in New York, but I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - that's where I went to school. I remember begging my way into choir in the 3rd grade, because you're not supposed to get in until 4th grade.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Begging
Choir
Connecticut
Greenwich
Grade
Supposed
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When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Love You
Song
Thinking
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The men's dance style in dancehall is territorial, but it's also flirtatious and it's also showing off strength by way of smooth movement that you can only do if you're really strong. It has so much attitude.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Flirtatious
Territorial
Showing
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Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it is a vocal. But it is a single, linear, monophonic thing. Something you could hum or whistle.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Linear
Melody
Vocal
Whistle
Hum
Instrument
Yes
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I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Debussy
Opera
Spooky
Composers
Studying
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I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Best Way
Offering
Life Best Always
Life Best Way
Operate
Studio
Raw
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If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Casual
Hitting
Manners
Receiving
Stranger
Thoughtful
Favor
Properly
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One of my biggest Disney influences in terms of world-building on this record was a background painter named Eyvind Earle, who was working in the '50s. He would make hyper-modern shapes that were sharp retellings of pastoral themes.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Painter
Shapes
Named
Disney
Influences
Themes
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Well working by yourself, especially when no one knows about it, is totally liberating because it's very impulse-driven. You work when you want to work. You work when you can work. No deadlines. No conversation. No compromise. No help.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Compromise
Liberating
Deadlines
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When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Different
Make You Think
Thinking
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I woke up in London one morning in the middle of an adrenaline surge, and I was just lying there - the sun was coming up - trying to think of the best way to describe this feeling, and 'pang' was the only word I could really use to describe it.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Adrenaline
Best Way
Lying
Surge
Describe
One Morning
Pang
Woke
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But I studied art in Belgium from the age of 17 to 18, and I learned French when I was there. Very reluctantly so. I didn't do a very good job. For the first six months I was very depressed and couldn't speak to anyone, and then it kinda hits you.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Belgium
Good Job
Studied
Depressed
Hits
Reluctantly
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If you're walking through the Union Square subway station - New Yorkers know it's obnoxious and crowded, and in the summer it's too hot - there are always amazing musicians playing, and sometimes there are multiple, different musicians set up in there.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Crowded
Multiple
Obnoxious
Subway
Square
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Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Artist
Attention
Music Industry
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I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, 'cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it's nobody's vision, really.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Art School
Drawing
Video
Vision
Studied
Art Music Vision
Director
Cause
Hand
In The Past
Result
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But I wanted the karaoke-style lyrics in our music videos for two reasons: first, cause nobody has lyric booklets anymore, and when I was growing up, lyric booklets were like little bibles. I want people to be able to access our lyrics without having to go to some gnarly website with banner ads.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Ads
Banner
Gnarly
Website
Lyric
Music Videos
Our Music
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The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Artistic
Believe
Couple
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I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
New York
Fun
Song
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You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.
Caroline Polachek / Songwriter
Realizing
Scene
Tree
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