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Song Exploder

Joy Oladokun - Look Up

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

Music

4.86.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Joy Oladokun is a singer and songwriter from Arizona, now based in Nashville, who’s been releasing music since 2015. Last year, she was named an Artist to Watch by NPR, Spotify, and Amazon, and she was #1 on Vogue’s list of New LGBTQ Artists To Listen to Now. She put out her third album, In Defense of My Own Happiness, in June 2021. It includes the song “Look Up.” For that track, she worked with Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer Dave Bassett, and while they were working and talking, they recorded a couple long voice memos. Joy sent me those voice memos, and in this episode, in addition to the stems of the recording, and Joy’s story about how it was made, you’ll hear the actual moments in late 2019 when the song was first coming together. Joy explains how the song was inspired by the different, and maybe opposite ways that she and her partner see the world.

For more, visit songexploder.net/joy-oladokun.

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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.

0:06.5

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

0:14.2

Joy Latakun is a singer and songwriter from Arizona, who's now based in Nashville.

0:18.8

She's been releasing music since 2015.

0:21.4

And last year, she was named an artist to watch by NPR, Spotify, and Amazon.

0:26.8

And she was number one on Vogue's list of new LGBTQ artists to listen to.

0:32.3

She put out her third album, In Defense of My Own Happiness, in June 2021.

0:37.0

It includes the song Look Up.

0:39.3

For that track, she worked with Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer Dave Bassett.

0:43.9

And while they were working and talking, they recorded a couple of long voice memos.

0:48.4

Joy sent me those voice memos.

0:50.4

And in this episode, you'll hear the actual moments in late 2019 when the song was first coming together.

0:56.2

And Joy explains how the song was inspired by the different and maybe opposite ways

1:01.2

that she and her partner see the world.

1:28.6

My name is Joy Latakun.

1:31.6

The day I started working on this song, I was on a trip to LA to work on some songs

1:38.0

with some people I hadn't met before.

1:40.1

And it was December.

1:42.3

It had been a long year.

1:44.1

And it was one of those things where I was like, I don't want to go to school today.

1:47.6

You know, I wish I could sleep in or watch a movie or go back to Arizona and see my parents.

1:55.2

But instead, I was in LA writing music.

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