Momma - Bang Bang

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Momma – “Bang Bang,” a 2023 single on Polyvinyl.

With their latest single "Bang Bang," Brooklyn-based trio Momma set out to write something provocative. “We wanted to write something lyrically different than anything else we’d done," explained band member Allegra Weingarten, "just super literal and crude."

Today's Song of the Day came out of a COVID bubble between Weingarten and her bandmate Etta Friedman. "We decided to isolate, get drunk, and write together,” Friedman said in a press release. “Within a night, we had demoed a hot sounding song about great sex.”

They sent the demo to their bandmate/bassist/producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch. "He sent us back a new version with a lot of added extra production: drums, bass, synths, acoustic guitar, etc. It felt totally different and fresh," Weingarten says. "The finished song has a lot of classic Momma – heavy guitars and catchy melodies – but packaged in a different form. It feels immediate, like a whole new sound for the band."

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0:00.0	Music
0:04.0	Music
0:08.0	Music
0:12.0	Tell me closer, hold my head
0:16.0	Give me a second, catch my breath
0:20.0	Don't be shy, we'll say it loud
0:24.0	I want it, I'm needed, I'm needed now
0:29.0	Who I owe, who I owe
0:33.0	And they can sleep in
0:37.0	Who I owe, who I owe
0:41.0	And they can sleep in
0:45.0	If you are there, we can go
0:48.0	On the way, the way, the way
0:53.0	We can do it on the phone
0:56.0	I want it, I'm needed, I can be your secret
1:02.0	I know that, I say I'm the size
1:06.0	Life is good, but you should be the first
1:10.0	I can't hide and hold it down
1:14.0	I want it, I'm needed, I'm needed now
1:18.0	Who I owe, who I owe
1:23.0	And they can sleep in
1:27.0	Who I owe, who I owe
	...

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