MIA: "The sounds on the intro, I got from [Carilla?]. It’s chanting when they pull fishing boats into the water. It [began as] a photo in my head first. The idea for the song was that you have the bottom deck of a boat: two hundred people getting smuggled in boat, coming over as refugees. If they banged that beat on the side of a boat, what would it sound like? That’s why it’s all echo-y and submarine-y. It was refugees coming over on a boat, and we tried to get that out in music.”"
MIA: "The sounds on the intro, I got from [Carilla?]. It’s chanting when they pull fishing boats into the water. It [began as] a photo in my head first. The idea for the song was that you have the bottom deck of a boat: two hundred people getting smuggled in boat, coming over as refugees. If they banged that beat on the side of a boat, what would it sound like? That’s why it’s all echo-y and submarine-y. It was refugees coming over on a boat, and we tried to get that out in music.”"