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The seventh track of the album is very self-conscious thematically with Alex Turner reminiscing and reflecting on the band and the music industry. He stated in an interview with Radio X that the melody of the chorus was where the track was created and evolved from there, saying that the melody “seemed to have aspirations beyond a simple pop song.”
“I felt like it had aspirations to be a movie theme,” Turner revealed. “It hung around for ages, that melody, and I’d play it whenever I found myself sitting at a piano until one of the band asked, ‘Is that one of yours?’ And that’s about as excited as they get.” - Alex Turner via Far Out Magazine
“The band’s support encouraged him to work the motif into a song that explores Turner’s feelings of alienation and disillusionment: “I had big ideas… the kind you’d rather not share over the phone,” he sings. “But now the orchestra’s got us all surrounded, and I can’t for the life of me remember how they go.” In the studio, guitarist Jamie Cook patched a Moog synthesizer into an old drum machine to create a dark, industrial sound. In the end, of course, the track “went on its own journey” and slowly morphed into a sumptuous orchestral recording, leaving the band with an intoxicating hybrid between classic AM songwriting and ’60s cinematic bliss.“ - Sam Kemp, Far Out Magazine
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