Don't Wanna
by Haim

Album: Women in Music Pt. III (2020)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Don't Wanna" came out of a late-night drunken jam session with Haim's producer friend Rostam Batmanglij, formerly of Vampire Weekend. After Batmanglij played some funky chords on the piano, the lyrics about trying to hold together a rocky relationship rolled off the tongue. "It's sexy, flirty and hopeful," the sister trio said in a press release.
  • This was one of the earlier songs Haim wrote for Women in Music Pt. III around the same time as "Now I'm In It." Right from the beginning the straightforward rock song stuck its head out as one they could record without many changes. "It just sounded so good being simple," Alana Haim told Apple Music. "We can tinker around with a song for years, and with this one, every time we added something or changed it, it lost the feeling. And every time we played it, it just kind of felt good. It felt like a warm sweater."
  • Haim were set to play the Los Angeles Forum in 2020 until the coronavirus pandemic put paid to their touring plans. The song's music video sees the sisters strolling through the venue's empty parking lot at sunset, before breaking out into a full-on run. Sadly, the parking lot is the closest they got to playing their home city's indoor arena in 2020.

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