Kimbra - Top of the World (Re-Issue)

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Last month, in January 2023, Kimbra put out her fourth album. I was listening to it, and it made me want to go back and revisit her Song Exploder episode from 2018. Here it is:

Kimbra is an artist from New Zealand. Her first album came out in 2011, and in 2013 she won two Grammys for her collaboration with Gotye, the multiplatinum hit song,” Somebody That I Used to Know.” In this episode, Kimbra breaks down her song from 2018, “Top of the World,” a song she also made in collaboration - this time with artists Skrillex and Diplo.

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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.
0:06.7	I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe.
0:10.7	Last month, in January, 2003, Kimber put out her fourth album.
0:15.2	I was listening to it, and it made me want to go back and revisit her Song Exploder episode from 2018.
0:20.8	It's one of my favorites.
0:21.6	Back then, she told me about the making of a song from her third album. So if you miss this
0:26.6	episode the first time around, I hope you'll enjoy it. And if you heard it before, I hope
0:30.6	you'll enjoy listening to it again as much as I did. Kimbra is an artist from New Zealand.
0:36.6	Her first album came out in 2011, and in 2013, she won two
0:41.4	Grammys for her collaboration with Gautier, the multi-platinum hit song, Somebody That I Used to
0:46.0	know. In this episode, Kimbra breaks down a song of hers from 2018, called Top of the World.
0:52.2	Collaboration is a big part of this song as well.
0:54.6	Coming up, Kimber traces how musical experiments she made with Scrillix and Diplow
0:58.8	ended up getting transformed into parts of this song.
1:02.0	See me run, see me out, see me on with the goals.
1:05.3	I'm on top.
1:06.0	I'm on top of the world.
1:08.5	Need a break.
1:09.3	Then I'll take to the top of the world. Need a break, then I'll take to the top of the world.
1:14.6	My name is Kimbra.
1:16.6	The start of this song happened at Skrillik Studio.
1:20.6	We met backstage at Coachella, and then, you know, we talked about hanging out
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