Let Us In
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Vocals and guitar by Barbara. Additional guitar, controller synth, 808 programming and sampling by me. Contains some salty language.
This continues our recent push into mostly original rock material about Barbara’s complex romantic life. The sample comes from one of my favorite Nirvana songs.
Oh, the nineties. I’m not as angry as Kurt Cobain and didn’t have much love for Nirvana in their heyday. But Mr Cobain writes a great melody, and the band has grown on me in my old age. It’s become something of a cliche for young hipster jazz musicians to do Nirvana songs, but they work great, they have those nice doom-filled minor key chord progressions.
I’ve had the “Hey wait” sample sitting on my hard drive for basically ever. Barbara had this song she had written, and we wanted a sample to lay over it to make it more memetastic. “Hey wait” was the first one we tried. Then we tried about seventy other hooks from other hard rock songs, and none of them worked nearly as well. Barbara was pretty excited to work a Nirvana sample into an electronic dance track of the kind Kurt probably hated. I like to imagine that maybe he would have thought it was cool.