My Love

Album: The Bright Side (2015)
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  • Lenka and her father, jazz trumpeter Jiri Kripac, collaborated for the first time when they wrote this song together about unconditional love. But the indie-pop songstress had her work cut out for her while making music with her pop-averse dad.

    "He is really a jazz purist, like he doesn't really like pop music," she told The Jakarta Post in 2015. "We sort of meet in the middle with this like '60s soul doo-wop kind of sound, which is like where jazz was on its way to becoming pop music and passes through doo-wop."
  • Jiri Kripac tried to steer his daughter toward music by enrolling her in piano and trumpet lessons when she was a child, but she hated them and took up acting instead. It took her a while to make her way back to music, but she eventually joined the Aussie electronic-rock outfit Decoder Ring as a vocalist and keyboardist in the mid-2000s. By the end of the decade, she released a self-titled solo album and the international hit single "The Show."
  • This is featured on Lenka's fourth studio album, The Bright Side, the follow-up to Shadows, the 2013 album that coincided with her becoming a mother for the first time. The sonic shift from quiet to energetic reflects Lenka's transition from parenting a newborn to a toddler.

    "I'm very happy in life - that is my biggest truth," she explains. "My previous album, Shadows, was a quiet lullaby album, because I was living a quiet life, having a baby. Now my life is much more energetic: I've got a toddler who wants to dance. He doesn't want to hear slow songs. He wants to hear rhythms."
  • Three-year-old Quinn also had a hand in deciding which songs made the cut on the album. "He had his say over which songs he liked. When I would play them at home, he'd say 'Oh, I like that one, Mommy,' or he'd say 'Don't like that one, Mom, it's too slow,'" she explained.

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