Songfacts®:

• This is a track from the self-titled debut solo album by producer and TV on the Radio guitarist Dave Sitek, which he recorded under the name of Maximum Balloon. This song features Katrina Ford. Sitek told The Guardian September 15, 2010: "Katrina is in the band Celebration and she's sung on a bunch of TV On the Radio records too. To all intents and purposes, she's my sister, so I drag her into almost everything I do. And, of course, I absolutely love her voice – it's distinct and expansive – so I'm really lucky I can boss her around. We bully each other into s--t all the time. In this case it was, 'You made me eat eggplant, so I'm going to make you do this song'. We were hanging out at my studio in LA, cooking food, shooting BB guns and riding scooters, and the song evolved over a couple of days."
• Sitek discussed his song writing for the project with The Guardian: "I moved to LA after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to LA and build a studio in my house. I've economised my whole operation – I got rid of the mixing board and I haven't miked a guitar amp since the Bush administration. I just have a small space packed with synthesisers. Being in LA has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains. That pushes me for more clarity, and to make music that sounds good with the windows down."