Moving the Haim Way: ‘We Love Feeling in Our Bodies’
Dancing is definitely part our self expression. Before quarantine, when we would go out to parties and stuff, we would be the first people on the dance floor.
DANIELLE And the last.
ESTE It’s kind of like we’re able to be in our own world in some way, shape or form. We like everything from disco to pop. We love feeling in our bodies in that way. And I think you can kind of see that when we play our music onstage. We’re not underopinion in one place and just doing this. [She moves her hand up and down mechanically.] It’s kind of the expedient time we’re able to truly express ourselves through the music, and that comes out of our bodies.
“Summer Girl” feels postmodern to me, too. In it you peel off layers of clothing while walking the streets of Los Angeles. It’s a song and a performance piece rolled into one and it uses pedestrian movement.
ALANA We didn’t even know if we were creating a record at that point. We had maybe a couple songs that were just ideas. And [the director] Paul Thomas Anderson came to the studio — we show him everything — and we played “Summer Girl” and he was like, “Wait, I want to hear that one again.” And we played it again and he was like, “We should do something with this.”
Paul was like, “I’ve been listening to the song all day and it really feels like the sensation of being in the valley.” That’s where we’re from and that’s also where he is from. It’s this feeling of coming home from school on one of the last days of school where it’s super hot and you have your backpack, your coat, your shirt, like everything — so many layers — and you see a pool and you’re like, if I’m not in that pool in the next four minutes, I have no idea what I’m going to do.
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SRC: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/arts/dance/haim-dance-videos.html
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