Under-Estimate The Girl

Album: Single Release Only (2012)
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  • Nash explained on her website that this punk-based song was written, recorded and videoed in 24 hours as a means of battling frustration. "The other night I was stressin' out," she said, "and we'd just finished rehearsing and I was like ARGHGHHGHGH I need to write a song and release something and do something creative instead of breaking all my stuff that I own."

    "The next day I did a couple of interviews and then went straight to work," Nash continued. "The girls were kinda like "what who how when and what the crap are you talking about?!" and I was like "no time to explain just trust me and when we've finished this will be a new song."

    Nash concluded: "We recorded it, then started shooting a video at 10.00 pm and proceeded to get pretty silly until about 4.00 am and run around being di--s and having fun all over poor Oscar and Steve's (the owners) practice rooms. There was beer, there was cheesecake, there was dancing with dogs, there was a LOT OF SHOUTING. I felt a lot better."
  • The song introduces a new back-to-basics rock sound for Nash. Explaining why she has shifted to punk-based material, she said: "I've been hurt and I'm angry and playing bass and shouting about it makes me feel better. That's all it is. And if that freaks people out then good."
  • Nash complains in the opening verse that everybody plays it safe and nobody messes with the rules. Speaking with The Observer, she explained the lyrics sum up her feeling towards a lot of things, including the current music industry. "When I first started, in 2006," she explained, "it was an exciting time. Independent, cool, weird artists were being successful, and magazines were writing about them, and people were getting played on radio that were, like, really good. And now everything I hear on the radio is basically a dance track. People have these amazing platforms, and I feel they could do something more interesting. They probably have the talent to do something more interesting, but there's a lot of fear. You have to conform to certain things just to get on the [radio] playlists."

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