Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O has confessed to being “endlessly curious” about why “Maps” is so popular.
The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s were a popular indie rock group back in the early 2000s and Karen O’s feminine power earned the group a string of diehard fans. Their 2003 single “Maps” appeared on their debut album and even now, it’s the track that fans most want to hear during live performances.
In a new interview with BBC Radio 6’s The First Time, Karen O has claimed to be “fascinated” by “Maps” and the iconic tune it has become.
“I’m endlessly curious about that song because it’s just strange to me,” she told Matt Everitt. “It was one of the earliest songs that we wrote for the [first] record. I remember it was like a daydream making that song; it just happened so kinda effortlessly and so incidentally.”
She went on to explain how the track is one that “wrote itself in like five minutes.” After she heard guitarist Nick Zinner, they busted the whole thing out pretty quickly.
She continued: “And then yeah, it’s done pretty well for itself since then. It’s a love song, and there’s just not a lot of bands that have one of their biggest songs as a love song. So I’m pretty stoked about that, too.”
You can listen to the throwback tune here.
