Deradoorian - A Beautiful Woman

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Angel Deradoorian has been a member of the bands Dirty Projectors and Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, and has contributed to albums by Vampire Weekend, Flying Lotus, and Brandon Flowers. This year she released her first full-length album as Deradoorian, The Expanding Flower Planet. In this episode, Angel breaks down the album's lead single, "A Beautiful Woman." After leaving the Dirty Projectors, Angel moved from the east coast to Los Angeles to focus on her own solo music. She talks about how "A Beautiful Woman" was inspired by the loneliness of moving across the country, overcoming creative self-doubt, and transitioning from a secondary role in other bands to the main role of songwriter and producer for her debut album.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishikesh Herway.
0:10.4	This episode contains explicit language. For six years, Angel Daredurian was a member of the critically acclaimed band Dirty Projectors.
0:17.8	She performed on National TV, recorded with Bjork, and played sold-out shows around the world.
0:22.9	But she left the group to pursue her own music.
0:25.6	I was in Dirty Projectors from 2006 to 2012, was when we announced me taking a break.
0:34.8	It's hard to let go of something that you've worked so hard for, and then put faith into yourself that you're going to be able to come out with something.
0:43.6	My name is Angel Daredurian, and I play as Daredurian.
0:47.8	Daredurian's debut solo album was released in August 2015.
0:54.9	In this episode, Angel breaks down the track, a beautiful woman, and how the decision to lead her own musical project affected her and inspired the creation of this song.
1:18.8	This track, making my own record, was part of me moving into a leadership position and being in charge of everything.
1:29.9	Was that scary?
1:31.4	Fuck yeah, that was scary.
1:34.6	Oh yeah, because there's so many things you have to put to the side.
1:38.8	You can't take a real job. You can't hang out with your friends whenever you feel like it.
1:45.0	You have to have some self-discipline, and you have to have faith that it'll work out because I wasn't saving any money in this time.
1:54.1	I was cleaning houses, and then working when I could.
1:58.1	Cleaning houses, a lot of you alone time, can listen to music, don't have to interact with people so much.
2:05.6	So you're not expending your energy in conversation with people all day, and then trying to go and work on your music later.
2:13.3	It gave me the freedom to think about what I wanted to make and then be able to go back and do it.
2:19.1	This song is like really kind of sad to me.
2:22.5	I mean, it's about myself and the transformational process, kind of like the future self, the ideal self.
2:30.3	I wanted to connect with people, and I think part of what that was also was being vulnerable and kind of showing people a part of myself that maybe I wouldn't.
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