Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis is this week’s guest on The FADER Interview podcast. In a wide-ranging conversation with The FADER’s Walden Green, Dupuis — who’s shepherded Speedy from its 2011 origins as a solo endeavor to its current form as a full-blown indie rock juggernaut — dug into the group’s first album in five years, Rabbit Rabbit, coming this Friday, September 1 via Wax Nine Records.
Among the many Rabbit Rabbit tracks Dupuis discusses in the new episode is “Who’s Afraid of the Bath,” an as-yet-unreleased, mid-album cut that she reveals was directly inspired by Deftones’ 2000 track “Digital Bath.” Read Next: Speedy Ortiz’s “You S02” is a dismissal of music industry phonies “I love Detones.
We all do,” she says. “A lot of pop [artists] have now turned a positive eye toward nu-metal, but we never stopped believing.
We always loved nu-metal. I hadn’t felt that I knew how to interpret some of those sounds before, but I do now, and that’s where ‘Who’s Afraid of the Bath’ came from.” But the song isn’t a straight-up homage to one of Dupuis’s old favorites; it’s a retrospective critical analysis of the darker tendencies of the genre, in which misogynistic lyrics were routinely excused in service of a song’s edgy aesthetics. “I think about all these songs that I grew up on and grew up loving, and then I think about some difficult experiences I’ve been through that other people I know have also been through,” Dupuis explains. “I’ve experienced stalking and I’ve experienced abuse in a relationship.
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