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, your way.

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Last month, in January 2023, Kimber 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.

It's one of my favorites.

Back then, she told me about the making of a song from her third album.

So if you missed this episode the first time around, I hope you'll enjoy it.

And if you heard it before, I hope you'll enjoy listening to it again as much as I did.

Kimbera is an artist from New Zealand.

Her first album came out in 2011.

And in 2013, she won two Grammys for her collaboration with GoTier, the multi-platant of hit song somebody that I used to know.

In this episode, Kimber breaks down a song of hers from 2018 called Top of the World.

Collaboration is a big part of this song as well.

Coming up, Kimber traces how musical experiments she made with Skrillex and Diplo ended up getting transformed into parts of this song.

See me run, see me out, see me run on the girls, I want to, I want to, I want to top of the world, need a break, then I take to the top of the world.

My name is Kimbera.

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