"I didn't need to write a song about sex being awesome," she says. "There are plenty of songs like that. And with Powa especially, I was dealing with violence. There's a real middle-class fear of conflict, of the lower classes rising up, of violence in the Middle East. But it's there, it exists; especially violence against women. It's this horrible reality that's always disturbed me, and I wanted to take hold of it in the songs."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/07/tune-yards-merrill-garbus-whokill
"I didn't need to write a song about sex being awesome," she says. "There are plenty of songs like that. And with Powa especially, I was dealing with violence. There's a real middle-class fear of conflict, of the lower classes rising up, of violence in the Middle East. But it's there, it exists; especially violence against women. It's this horrible reality that's always disturbed me, and I wanted to take hold of it in the songs."