"This was last year in Los Angeles, as Danielle, Este and Alana Haim were chipping away at what would become the fourth LP by the rock trio that bears their family's name. With Danielle and her friend Rostam Batmanglij working as co-producers, the band had made great progress at Rostam's place and at Valentine, a vibey old studio in Valley Village, two blocks from the Haims' childhood home."
"So with inspiration drawn from Beyoncé's densely referential " Cowboy Carter " and with Michael on her mind as always - "I'm just a huge fan," she says - Danielle walked in one day, "and I was like, 'All right, hear me out, I have this weird idea,'" which was to use the funky chorus chant of Michael's classic "Freedom! '90" as the basis for a Haim song called "Gone." Rostam's first reaction? "My first reaction was: That's gonna be expensive," he says."
Danielle, Este and Alana Haim worked on their fourth LP with Danielle and Rostam Batmanglij as co-producers. Recording took place at Rostam's place and at Valentine, a studio in Valley Village near the Haims' childhood home. Danielle proposed sampling the chorus chant from George Michael's 'Freedom! '90' to build a song called 'Gone' to serve as the album opener. Rostam initially warned the sample would be expensive. The band drew inspiration from Beyoncé's referential 'Cowboy Carter' and noted contemporaneous interpolations like Taylor Swift's use of 'Father Figure.' 'I Quit' was released in June; a deluxe edition arrives Oct. 17.
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