The synth-driven song sounds like nothing in her catalog which she says was sort of the point.
My Womanis Olsens most diverse album yet, but not just for its fleeting excursion into synth-pop.
People see you through your art, Olsen says.
That takes a ton of energy.
I started to feel like, You know what?
I need a break from this.
I needed to take some time [off] to value it again.
When you do anything enough, it just becomes a little uninteresting.
I really needed space from writing, space from thinking about it in an over-analytical way.
I bought a piano.
I was challenging myself to find my voice with that instrument.
Half of it was that my writing was changing and my singing was different.
The other half was that I wanted to express my voice in a new way.
Me and guitarist Stewart Bronaugh and drummer Josh Jaeger and bassist Emily Elhaj had been working together for years.
We had developed a sound together.
This record showcases the band that has been with me and how theyve grown.
You just cant get a guitar solo if youre just forcing it.
[My Womans] Sister, as an example, is like the mountaintop of the record to me.
We were all in different rooms [when we recorded that song], playing it live.
you might only imagine how stressful that is for everyone to not f up.
We listened back [afterward] and we all stopped at this one second together.
Theres this point in the song where we all stopped playing just like, psychically together.
And Im just like, What the f!
That is something that as an artist I relate to and that really affected me.
Its like, So just because I did this thing, now I have to do more things.
People are expecting me to.
Its learning how to be patient.
Many of your lyrics are so candid.
Or at least, Im attempting to do that in my writing.
And to then find time to go home and find new material on top of that!
I really got into Elena Ferrante.
