Pitchfork: And on "Motion Sickness", you literally sing about listening to music: "Everything spins on my hip, on my compact disc."
AT: With that one, [Gang Gang Dance's] Brian DeGraw wrote on his blog, "Remember when people thought the world was round," and I made my lyrics follow on from that line of thought. I was thinking about things that mean something to me that probably mean nothing to anyone else in this day and age. For instance, I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.
Pitchfork: And on "Motion Sickness", you literally sing about listening to music: "Everything spins on my hip, on my compact disc."
AT: With that one, [Gang Gang Dance's] Brian DeGraw wrote on his blog, "Remember when people thought the world was round," and I made my lyrics follow on from that line of thought. I was thinking about things that mean something to me that probably mean nothing to anyone else in this day and age. For instance, I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.