The trio laid “Headphones On” over the instrumental for Jackson’s “Got ‘Til It’s Gone,” which itself samples Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”
Haim delivered a decade-spanning performance for their latest appearance in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. The trio selected Addison Rae‘s single “Headphones On” for the cover portion of their mini-set, but echoed the song with a twist. With Danielle Haim at the helm, the group mixed Janet Jackson‘s 1997 single “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” into the record, complete with its sample of Joni Mitchell‘s “Big Yellow Taxi.”
Rae’s “You can’t fix what has already been broken/You just have to surrender to the moment” paired well with Jackson and Mitchell’s “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone/Joni Mitchell never lies.” For the final minute of the performance, the Haim sisters jammed out with a bluesy groove.
During their Live Lounge sessions, Haim also performed “Down to Be Wrong,” a selection from their recently-released studio album I Quit. “I Quit is far more cohesive, a cathartic concept record on breakups and the hard-won independence you earn from them,” Rolling Stone wrote in a review of the record. “Haim have always been classic-rock scholars, and you can hear tinges of great bands that came before them across these songs,” like
I Quit comes just a few weeks after Rae released an album herself, her debut record, Addison. “On Addison, Rae’s eclectic intentions are loud and clear: to create a distinctive, dreamy soundscape that brings her album moodboards to life — and, naturally, make fun music for people to dance to,” the Rolling Stone review reads. In April, Rae joined Haim in Los Angeles to dance along to the live debut of the I Quit track “Blood on the Street.”
Alana Haim recently told I-D their new album is “the closest we’ve ever gotten to how we wanted to sound.” She added that it was a “completely different experience” recording than on past albums.
