The song “Slide Tackle” is about confronting the difficult emotions and thoughts (the void) within oneself and trying to move past them.
In an interview with NPR Zauner said:
“Slide Tackle” is about sort of battling with your brain, and trying to tackle it into submitting to experiencing joy and h...
[Verse 1]
I want to be good
I want to navigate this hate in my heart
Somewhere better
I want to feel it
But with the feel, there is an ache I meet
To desire living
[Chorus]
Don't mind me while
I'm tackling this void
Slide tackling my mind
This weight feels like
I'm wrestling with my head
Obsessing in the dark
[Verse 2]
So be good to me, be good to me
You and me always had a good time
And what else is left, babe?
So be good to me, be good to me
The day's not a wash until you say
[Chorus]
Don't mind me while
I'm tackling this void
Slide tackling my mind
Long nights where I'm
I'm wrestling with my head
Obsessing in the dark
[Outro]
Obsessing in the dark
Obsessing in the dark
Slide Tackle was written by Michelle Zauner.
Slide Tackle was produced by Japanese Breakfast & Ryan Galloway.
Japanese Breakfast released Slide Tackle on Fri Jun 04 2021.
‘Slide Tackle’ was such a fussy bitch. I had a really hard time figuring out how to make it work. Eventually it devolved into, of all things, a series of solos, but I really love it. It started with a drumbeat that I’d made in Ableton and a bassline I was trying to turn into a Future Islands-esque d...