G-Eazy Flips Pixies’ “Where is My Mind?” On “A Very Strange Time”
The Bay Area rapper invokes the ending scene of ‘Fight Club.’
G-Eazy is back with his latest EP, Scary Nights—and he flipped an ‘80s alt-rock anthem on “A Very Strange Time.”
The Bay Area rapper puts his own spin on the titular refrain from Pixies’ “Where is My Mind?”:
Where is my mind? (Uh)
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind? (Yeah)
Tryna hold on before I explode
Might have got lost on this yellow brick road
Where is my mind?
The song title appears to be a reference to Fight Club. At the end of the film, the Narrator tells Marla, “You met me at a very strange time in my life” as “Where Is My Mind?” plays in the background. It’s an image that plays out in the lyrics:
Life gets a little weird here in artist land
While I’m watchin' the world burn holdin' Marla’s hand
The narrator ain’t have time for a wife
Said you met me at a very strange time in my life
We could’ve made this all work if the timing was right
The homage isn’t entirely unprecedented for G-Eazy. Last year, he featured on Goody Grace’s “Girls in the Suburbs Singing Smiths Songs,” and he referenced the band in his verse:
Listenin' to the Pixies ‘til we drunk off all this whiskey
Now we lay here, and it’s only you and I
Where we go from here?
Pixies members previously spoke to NME about their iconic song. “I just love the fact that people are using and getting inspired by that riff,” said guitarist Joey Santiago.
This isn’t the first time a rapper called on an alt-rock staple this year. Lil Nas X’s “Panini” interpolates Nirvana’s “In Bloom.”
G-Eazy worked with a handful of artists on his latest release, including Gunna, French Montana, Moneybagg Yo, Preme, Miguel, The Game, and Dex Lauper.
Read all the lyrics to “A Very Strange Time” on Genius now.
