Oh my, that’s fascinating! Just checked Amoeba’s channel (love the
What’s in My Bag series BTW) and the person Elliot is referring to is Meshell Ndegeocello,
she talks about I Inside… at 8:18.
Quote:
Okay, I got a story about this one, it’s the new PJ Harvey record. I’m going to leave out names because I don’t know if they’re okay with me telling this story. So apparently this record was already made, alright? And then they played it or a friend, and the friend was like, “I don’t know. Maybe…? What happened to you playing this stuff, and not being so band-oriented?” And so I think, when you hear this, I’m so glad that friend persuaded her to go back and make it more her stuff. I’ve been listening to this all week and lyrically, just one of my favourite lyricists, and then just the musicianship… It’s my hope to be this good one day, you know?
I guess this would explain why some song lyric sheets are dating back to 2018/19 and why Polly said in one of the interviews that making the album cost her a lot of money lol