Ellen Kempner thinks friendship is underrated. We can't help but agree. Read our full conversation with the Palehound frontwoman here:
Listening to Palehound is often like having a tough conversation with your best friend. There’s likely to be some pain, some old feelings dug up and picked apart, but you’ll always feel better after it’s over. And on the Boston-based band’s third LP, there are as many platonic heart-to-hearts and anxious tell-alls as there are romantic revelries and loving assurances.
The song is about an unbalanced friendship and the longing that you feel when you’re not being accepted. And I feel like that’s a big theme of. I felt like the whole album had these themes of belonging and of wanting to find yourself within the greater scheme of things and figuring out what you need to do to—not fit in—but be comfortable with yourself within this world.
Some of the experiences in these songs touch on anxiety and insecurity in a really personal way. Is putting it down in words therapy, or maybe catharsis for you? So many people have been really responding well to that song. But to me it’s kind of like a joke. The song itself is just about taking ownership of your body in a really kind of reckless way. I had gotten four tattoos last year, so I was thinking a lot about that and why I have that urge to do that and why we all get tattoos and, like, what are we really trying to do? Why does it feel so good? Because I feel so out of control of my body and how people see my body all the time.
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