They Want My Soul

Album: They Want My Soul (2014)
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  • Spoon lead singer Britt Daniel explained the album's title track to NPR: "Well, Jonathan Fisk was a character in a song from [2002's] Kill the Moonlight. And it was based on a guy who used to beat me up as I was walking home from middle school. And so when I'm writing this song - this new song, 'They Want My Soul,' about, you could say soul-suckers in general - he was one of the people that came up. It's a song about religious pretenders, manipulators, educated folk singers, people that bring me down. And Jonathan Fisk was one of them, for sure." >>>
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  • "I wrote the melody to 'They Want My Soul,' a long time ago and I thought it was quite good," Daniel told Pitchfork. "But then I realized that it was basically a ripoff of this Toni Braxton song ['You're Makin' Me High'], so I set it aside for years."

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