You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

This episode contains explicit language.

Natalie Prass released her debut album in 2015.

That year, Time Magazine called her an artist to watch.

Pitchfork gave the album Best New Music and StereoGum named it one of the top albums of the year.

In this episode, Natalie Prass takes apart a new song from 2018 called Short Court Style.

It's her first track to come out since that debut album.

My name is Natalie Prass.

My first record came out in 2015.

And I toured on it all of 2015.

And then it was time for me to start writing for the next record.

One of my favorite collaborators, this is Guy Kyle Ryan.

We blocked out a week to write together.

And during that time, I got an email from my friend Teddy Blanks asking if I would be interested in writing music for his short film, Oderome No.

My name is Teddy Blanks.

Oderome No is a short film about a young man who says I love you on the first date.

And he has to try to figure out how to stop doing that.

Since this short is so much about this over-sensitive man and his nervous adventures in the dating world,

we thought it would be really interesting to have the music all be very feminine and done by a woman.

Writing for film has always been a dream of mine.

And I've known Teddy Blanks since I was in high school.

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