Just playing it feels empowering.”Įste Haim: “People have always tried to put us in a box, and they just don’t understand what we do. But I think this is the most fun song we’ve ever written. Unfortunately, I can already hear some macho dude being like, ‘That lick is so easy or simple.’ Sadly, that’s shit we’ve had to deal with. The album and this song are really guitar-driven we just really wanted to drive that home. This album was kind of meant to expel all of that energy and almost be like ‘Fuck it.’ This song kind of encapsulates the whole mood of the record. Anyone can move here, but you’ve got to have LA pride from the jump.”ĭanielle: “With this album, we were reckoning with a lot of the emotions we were feeling within the business. But I always had such pride for this city. And if LA is an eyeroll, the Valley-where we come from-is a constant punchline. Especially in 2001 or so, when all the music was coming out of New York and all of our friends ended up going there for college. It came out of this feeling when we were growing up that Los Angeles had a bad rep. “We’re truly in awe of where they took the songs.” Below, the sisters walk us through every track on this special edition.ĭanielle Haim: “This was one of the first songs we wrote for the album. “We feel so lucky to be able to work with our favorite artists on these versions,” says Danielle. III has achieved, including a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, something Alana describes as “surreal.” Here, Taylor Swift-whose 2020 album evermore HAIM guested on-features on a reworked version of “Gasoline,” while Thundercat offers a dreamy new take on “3 AM,” WIMPIII’s tongue-in-cheek R&B moment. Quarantine project aside, this expanded edition is also a celebration of everything Women in Music Pt. The album was also a cathartic release, as the sisters boldly navigated depression, seeking help, grief, relationships, and-on the blistering “Man From the Magazine” and the country-inspired “The Steps”-the misogyny they’ve encountered as female musicians.
That surprise is an expanded edition of the album that has affectionately become known as WIMPIII, on which HAIM embraced all their musical influences to create their most boundless record yet (“We didn’t care about genre or sticking to any sort of script we have the most fun when nothing else is off-limits,” says Danielle). “We hope everyone enjoys this little surprise we cooked up in quarantine,” adds youngest sibling Alana. “Being home made us really want to collaborate, even if we couldn’t be in the same room,” bassist Este Haim tells Apple Music. III, the spirit-boosting third record the LA trio released in June 2020 amid strict stay-at-home orders. For HAIM, that meant returning to Women in Music Pt. Whether they’ve created quarantine albums at lightning speed or dreamt up inspired collaborations over Zoom, lockdown has pushed artists to get creative from the confines of their homes.
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