Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
“Multi-Love” is the first song, lead single, and titular track from UMO’s third full-length studio album, Multi-Love.
This song introduces the album’s central topic: the polyamorous relationship between UMO frontman Ruban Nielson, his wife Jenny, and another woman, codenamed “Laura.”
Ruban told th...
[Verse 1]
Multi-love
Checked into my heart and trashed it like a hotel room
Who is your God, where is she?
She wants to bury me in Austin under Uchiko
She don't want to be your man or woman
She wants to be your love
[Verse 2]
Multi-love
All of the other stalker daughters dragged her under
May all her minds be made up
I'll be her Vicodin, expired and escaped to Valhalla
She don't want to be your man or woman
She wants to be your love
[Chorus]
Multi-love's got me on my knee
We were one, then become three
Mama, what have you done to me?
I'm half crazy
[Verse 3]
Multi-love
It's not that this song's about her
All songs are about her
The sun shines underneath us
Fearing new kinds of mind control and just blaming each other
She don't want to be your man or woman
She wants to be your love
[Verse 1]
Multi-love
Checked into my heart and trashed it like a hotel room
Who is your God, where is she?
She wants to bury me in Austin under Uchiko
She don't want to be your man or woman
She wants to be your love
[Chorus]
Multi-love's got me on my knee
We were one, then become three
Mama, what have you done to me?
I'm half crazy
Multi-love's got me on my knee
We were one, then become three
Mama, what have you done to me?
I'm half crazy
Multi-Love was written by Kody Nielson & Ruban Nielson.
Multi-Love was produced by Kody Nielson & Ruban Nielson.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra released Multi-Love on Thu Feb 05 2015.
Frontman Ruban Nielson in an interview with Cool Hunting when asked about the writing process of the title track, “Multi-Love”:
I finished the song right before she left. I started the song before any idea of a polyamorous relationship had come into my life. “Multi-love” was the first lyric I had f...
The meaning of “Multi-Love” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra is that polyamorous relationships can be challenging. The song is based on singer Ruban Nielson’s real-life struggles with a love triangle between himself, his wife, and another woman, which he summarized in a 2015 Pitchfork interview:
I’d nev...