King Princess says working with Taylor Hawkins was a “transformative experience”
29.07.2022 - 17:21
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King Princess has spoken about the “transformative experience” of working with the late Taylor Hawkins on her new track ‘Let Us Die’.The pop-punk-inspired cut is the closing number on the New York singer-songwriter’s second album ‘Hold On Baby’, which came out today (July 29).During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, King Princess – real name Mikaela Straus – confirmed that the song was co-written with Ethan Gruska and Mark Ronson.Straus has today released an official video for ‘Let Us Die’. Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, the musician described it as “probably the best song I’ve ever written” and recalled how she came to collaborate with Hawkins who played drums on it.“I was like, this is the type of shit that I want to do,” she told Lowe.
“This brings me the same feeling I get from Alanis. And that is what I strive for.
And I showed Mark the song and Mark was like, ‘This is amazing’, which he does not always say. So I knew it was something special.“And he was like, ‘But we really need a drummer who’s going to bring life to this.
This needs to be a living and breathing person behind a drum kit and not a programmed beat, not a sample. This is the type of song that needs humanity behind all the instruments’.”Straus said she agreed with Ronson’s vision, with the producer going on to suggest the Foo Fighters drummer.
“I was like, ‘Do you think that you could get Taylor Hawkins to play on my song?’ He’s like, ‘Mikaela, don’t even worry about it’.”Hawkins accepted the offer to collaborate, hailing ‘Let Us Die’ as “a great song”.King Princess went on: “So he was recording it at their studio and I was in Brooklyn and we were feeding it through the console. So pretty trippy too to be in my childhood home studio,
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