David Byrne is back with a new single entitled “She Explains Things to Me,” which will be featured on the Talking Heads co-founder’s solo LP Who Is the Sky?, out on September 5 via Matador Records. Last month, Byrne announced the album and dropped the project’s first cut, “Everybody Laughs.” “She Explains Things to Me” is an endearing love song built around a simple acoustic guitar melody and DIY percussion. Byrne explains all the questions he asks to this unnamed “she,” mostly things about why people on TV shows or in movies do the things they do. Same, Davie. Same.
Regarding the track, Byrne said: “Many times I have marveled at how a friend (usually a female friend) seems to clock what is going on in a film between characters way before I do. Sometimes I understand poetry, but sometimes I need help. Though inspired by the [Rebecca] Solnit book Men Explain Things to Me, there is a huge difference—mansplaining is usually unasked for, in this case I am the one asking.”
Check out the lyric video for the song below, and pre-order Why Is the Sky? here.
