HAIM

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We're joined by the principal members of the band HAIM: Alana, Danielle and Este Haim. In 2013, they released their critically acclaimed debut album Days Are Gone and the rest is history. HAIM joins us in the studio to talk about making the latest record: I Quit. They also get into growing up in the San Fernando Valley and the shocking lyrics in the new album are about a true story from their time in high school.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:32.4	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Take a second to think back to 2013. If it helps, you can dig that Keep Calm and Carry On poster out of your closet. Maybe do the Harlem shake for a vine.
0:49.5	Now, I want you to think about the biggest songs from that year. Bruno Mars, Maclemore, it wasn't a big year for rock music.
0:57.3	But then think about The Wire, the smash hit from my guests, Alana, Danielle, and S.D.
1:02.5	Hiam, known collectively as Hiam.
1:05.8	That's all caps, A.J.I.M.
1:14.3	But it is a very specific kind of rock song.
1:17.0	It has the bouncy drums of your favorite Lindsay Buckingham song,
1:21.5	upbeat guitar riffs like you might hear on a thin Lizzy tune.
1:25.1	And then when Danielle Heim sings the first verse,
1:28.1	she hits every syllable double heart, like Elvis Costello.
1:31.4	I know, I know, I know that you're going to be okay anyway.
1:36.2	You know there's no laugh or reason for the way you tend to be.
1:40.4	I didn't go and try to change my mind and not intentionally
1:44.4	I know it's hard to hear you see it
1:47.0	but I can't bear to stay in
1:49.1	I just know I know I know I know that you're gonna be okay anyway
1:52.8	Always keep your heart lock tight
1:57.3	Don't let your mind read that
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