HAIM on Forever

Host: What about Forever? Cuz you rerecorded that from since the EP.

Danielle: We didn't actually. We tried to, that was like a song that we kind of went in saying like "We should, you know, for the record like redo it" and we tried and like the kind of magic was just already there in the first one and we didn't really wanna mess with it. It got remixed because-

Host: Yeah. it definitely sounds slightly different.

Danielle: Yeah. And I think, you know, there's some new vocals on it because when we first recorded it, we recorded it in like, a closet essentially. You know, with like a little live room-

Danielle: So all the drums are just stored in- So we kind of, we messed with it, but it was one of those songs where we were like "You know what? We can't recreate what we made, you know, two years ago"

Danielle: Forever is probably one of our most kind of important songs, I think, cuz it kind of started everything for us so-

Alana: It was the most important song that almost got thrown away.

Este and Danielle: Yeah.

Este: That we almost didn't record.

Alana: Yeah, we almost didn't record it. It was, we had been playing forever for forever.

Everyone: *laughs*

Alana: No, for I think like two years or something. And like, every time we played it, it was like really different, it was like half time.

Danielle: It was slower.

Alana: It was really slower- it was really slower. It was way slower.

Danielle: I remember coming to the studio with a kick and a snare and a hi hat, that's all we had. And he had this little live room, and again, like there was just, we set up a couple mics and I just like played for five minutes. And then we just like blew it out, we just like distorted the sh*t out of the drums because the mics were so bad. And like I think we added like a sub kick like just triggered one and then like we like kind of had this like upbeat track.  And I was like "Wait maybe this could work?" and it totally did. Like we literally for like four days just kind of messed with it and it was the most excited thing that we recorded just because we weren't really thinking about it And we-

Alana: Yeah, Forever was the first song that we could play in our car for more than three seconds.

Danielle: Yeah, before when we would record stuff, we'd like play it in the car and like we couldn't listen to it, cuz we get just like kind of embarrassed about it like "wait, this is us and it's weird." But, Forever was the first thing we were like "wait I wanna play this"

Este and Alana: Yeah

Danielle: That's when we kinda knew we were on to something and then after that, we did two more songs and then that was the Forever EP.