When we were first coming out, I guess it was perplexing for some people that I would make faces when I played, even though men have been doing it for years. When they see men do it, they are just, to quote HAIM, ‘in it.’ But of course, when a woman does it, it’s unsettling and off-putting and could be misconstrued as something else. We got asked questions about it early on, and there was this one interviewer who asked if I made the faces I made onstage in bed. Obviously he wasn’t asking about when I’m in bed yawning. My defense mechanism when stuff like that happens is just to try to make a joke out of it. So I kind of just threw it back at him and said, ‘Well, there’s only one way to find out.’ And of course, there was a chuckle and then we moved on. Now, had someone said that to me, I probably would’ve punched them in the face. But as women, we’re taught kind of just to always be pleasant and be polite. And I think that was my way of being polite and nice. Thank god things are changing a bit. We’ve been talking about shit like this forever, but I think now, finally, people are able to listen more intently.

We recorded this song in one take. We got the feeling we wanted in the first take. The first verse is Este’s super specific story, and then, on the second verse, it feels very universal to any woman who plays music about going into a guitar store or a music shop and immediately either being asked, ‘Oh, do you want to start to play guitar?’ or ‘Are you looking for a guitar for your boyfriend?’ And you’re like, ‘What the fuck?’ It’s the worst feeling. And I’ve talked to so many other women about the same experience. Everyone’s like, ‘Yeah, it’s the worst. I hate going in the guitar stores.’ It sucks.