Producer Jim-E Stack had already suggested that it took a while for he and Lorde to get the drums right on her new single, What Was That, and Lorde has now given us another insight into the making of the song in an interview with Rolling Stone.
As previously confirmed, Lorde made a creative breakthrough after recording her verse for the remix of Charli XCX’s Girl So Confusing, and she says that, in the search for the perfect percussion sound on What Was That, they actually used the drums from Radiohead’s Reckoner on it while it was in development.
