i read somewhere in an interview that karin wrote this song last of the album's tracks.
she said it was about how when people get older, they just quit music and grow up/get regular lives/start families.
this is her way of saying, i'll never be done with music, because its her career and life, basically.
In http://feverray.com/biography/ she says: "Thus 'I’m Not Done', one of Fever Ray’s more upbeat moments, only reveals its true meaning in its title, a gesture of defiance against Karin’s own thoughts of retirement. 'That was the last song I wrote and in contrast to many tracks that are more about anxiety and depression, that one is very full of life,' she says. 'Sometimes, when you’re as old as I am now, you think you’re going to quit, and people around you think you’re going to quit. But then you have days when you realise how good music can be, there’s...
In http://feverray.com/biography/ she says: "Thus 'I’m Not Done', one of Fever Ray’s more upbeat moments, only reveals its true meaning in its title, a gesture of defiance against Karin’s own thoughts of retirement. 'That was the last song I wrote and in contrast to many tracks that are more about anxiety and depression, that one is very full of life,' she says. 'Sometimes, when you’re as old as I am now, you think you’re going to quit, and people around you think you’re going to quit. But then you have days when you realise how good music can be, there’s so much left to explore and so much left to do. That’s why I sometimes feel I’ll never quit.'"
Thanks for posting this. I thought maybe the song was about her relationship with her brother from her band The Knife. That he was done with music but she wasn't thus creating Fever Ray. But it seems it was about herself instead.
Thanks for posting this. I thought maybe the song was about her relationship with her brother from her band The Knife. That he was done with music but she wasn't thus creating Fever Ray. But it seems it was about herself instead.
i read somewhere in an interview that karin wrote this song last of the album's tracks. she said it was about how when people get older, they just quit music and grow up/get regular lives/start families. this is her way of saying, i'll never be done with music, because its her career and life, basically.
source?
source?
In http://feverray.com/biography/ she says: "Thus 'I’m Not Done', one of Fever Ray’s more upbeat moments, only reveals its true meaning in its title, a gesture of defiance against Karin’s own thoughts of retirement. 'That was the last song I wrote and in contrast to many tracks that are more about anxiety and depression, that one is very full of life,' she says. 'Sometimes, when you’re as old as I am now, you think you’re going to quit, and people around you think you’re going to quit. But then you have days when you realise how good music can be, there’s...
In http://feverray.com/biography/ she says: "Thus 'I’m Not Done', one of Fever Ray’s more upbeat moments, only reveals its true meaning in its title, a gesture of defiance against Karin’s own thoughts of retirement. 'That was the last song I wrote and in contrast to many tracks that are more about anxiety and depression, that one is very full of life,' she says. 'Sometimes, when you’re as old as I am now, you think you’re going to quit, and people around you think you’re going to quit. But then you have days when you realise how good music can be, there’s so much left to explore and so much left to do. That’s why I sometimes feel I’ll never quit.'"
Thanks for posting this. I thought maybe the song was about her relationship with her brother from her band The Knife. That he was done with music but she wasn't thus creating Fever Ray. But it seems it was about herself instead.
Thanks for posting this. I thought maybe the song was about her relationship with her brother from her band The Knife. That he was done with music but she wasn't thus creating Fever Ray. But it seems it was about herself instead.