This is not a song about someone just discussing the issue of “settling down” with a partner, it is from the stand point of a child on the verge of becoming an adult and confusing what has been taught to her as how things are supposed to be with the reality of how relationships really work. Intent and motivation is the key to understanding the song and how the music is reflecting the emotional state of the singer. to support the lyrical content which on their own might seem innocuous or almost banal until you read between the lines and get into the head of the protagonist that is singing it, ( Kimbra or some hybrid of her and her influences creating the character.) The song takes on a cinematic quality with very stark contrasts of loud, soft, harsh, warm etc.

The song has many movements that, considering Producer Francoise Tetazs’ work in film and subsequent interviews with Kimbra of how he helped to Produce the album, speaks to the working method of the songs that he was involved in on this record. (I would love to pick the brain of Kimbra and Tetaz to find out as again I am in full supposition mode here and I am a sucker for the reasoning behind such decisions! Remember I have my Producers hat on!!) As such I think the montage, as brief as it is at 20 seconds, is integral to the scope of the album and the subtext that I am hearing in the album as a whole, (more on that in later installments)! For the purpose of the song by itself it may be superfluous but I find that I now miss it if is not there. versions are due to space considerations, (the vinyl), and, (perceived), western sensitivities towards “weird” music, (the U.S. I can only assume the reasons for the montage not being on the vinyl or U.S. versions of the CD, straight into the meat of the song but on the Aussie/NZ CD import, the album begins with a hallucinatory montage of the voices that make up elements of the structure of the song that if one was not to have heard before any other version, would make you wonder…what is going on here and what is this I am listening to? This is how the song starts in the video as well as the Aussie/NZ Vinyl and U.S. Talk about throwing in your biggest hook into the water to see what comes up! How does one start ones first song on ones debut album?

Kimbra vows vinyl