From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short

digestible episodes. I'm your host, Cole Kishna. Today we

continue our serialized analysis of the miseducation of Lauren Hill.

On our last episode we dissected the album's opening two songs,

Lost Ones and X Factor.

We heard how the two expressed a dualistic view of the dissolution of Miss Hill's relationship

with Wycliffe-John, asserting her strength and autonomy on Lost Ones, while revealing vulnerability and anguish on X Factor.

Miss Hill adds another dimension to her personal dissertation on Love with the album's next

track, the subject of today's episode, to Zion. Oh, Unshore what the Valence held, I touched my belly overwhelmed by what I had been chosen to perform.

Two Zion was written by Lauren Hill and produced by Hill and Shay Rivera.

Guevera recounted the initial conception of 2 Zion with Red Bull Media.

And it's funny that he played that record because we used to have this, when we first got to New York she had this little

brownstone like bottom floor brownstone and they had this little at the top

floor there's a little studio part available that I rented for my studio if you will that had no air conditioning.

And New York summers get very hot and humid.

So literally when you have your equipment in there, it gets even hotter.

So I could literally only work in this room for like 15 minutes at a time before like you

incinerate yourself in the gear. So I've made that Zion was made in that room originally where I had like 15 minute times where I could get in there for 15 minutes leave come back and

Zion was made out of that and then I played it for her

and that's how we worked a lot sometimes I would just sketch at home so that I was just sketch in the studio

and I played it for her and she started crying and at first I was oh I'm sorry I didn't know it was that bad I was like I thought I liked it you know and you

know so she literally started crying and I was like it's not that bad like you know I was like I you

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