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“Polymorphing” deals with the sudden and profound changes that come with love. Polymorphing means “shapeshifting,” the action of a creature changing forms. In the song, she hails the profound transformative powers of being in love.
Rather than drugs or whatever form of pleasure he’s seeking, she proposes “something better than what you’re asking for,” falling in love.
In an interview for Billboard, Caroline Polachek discussed the inspiration for the song:
“It’s really an homage to a Japanese pop star named Tetsuro Oda. I had heard his music for the first time in 2012 and loved how feel-good it was. I love how he’s not careful with the vocals, how he really flings them around even as he sings on top of a band that is so surgically precise. That said, we did not approach this song with surgical precision.”
She added: “I wanted it to feel as if you were listening to another language. It's not really about anything other than that feeling of gushy-ness and mania.“
The song ends with a scream. Polachek said: “That scream was really funny, actually. We'd borrowed a mic that day from our friend Ben Goldwasser and tracked a scream using it. We sent him an MP3 that had a lot silence and then a really loud scream as a practical joke. But it did make the album.“
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