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"Trainwreck" is a song by American singer and songwriter Banks. It is the fifth track and last single off her second major-label album The Altar, released on September 30, 2016. The music video for the song was released on January 18th, 2017, directed by Marie Schuller.
In the song, Banks sings about getting out of a relationship that became a trainwreck. In the begining she thought that she could fix him and people tried to warn her, but she didn't listen, and soon she realizes it was a bad idea.
In an interview for Idolator, Banks revealed that she wrote the song when she was 14, and it is one of the first lyrics she ever wrote. "I knew that there would be a home for those lyrics at some point. I was like a trippy little girl and that’s what music does to me. I felt like an alien and it was like a place for me to be an alien.
stayed in my head! It was like a chant. I do remember writing it — I wrote it down in a notebook. I always remember those lyrics, though. There are some lyrics that I’ve written that I always will remember." – said Banks.
On her track-by-track interview for Refinery29, she said: " like a stream-of-consciousness thing. They still mean so much to me and they still correlate to my life sometimes and they're still me, somehow. So I feel like this song's been a part of me for a long time."
About how the song that was released came to be, Banks said for Coup De Main: "I always wanted to use ! It was almost like when you've had something for so long you're way too precious about it, and then when I was in the studio with DJ Dahi I just heard that beat and I was like, "Fuck it, I'm just going to go for it, I'm never going to find the right home for it unless I just find the right home for it and stop being so precious about it." So I was just joking around, and it felt almost like a rap, so I did it and they were like: "What is that?" I was like, "I wrote it when I was younger," and they were like, "That's tight!" So that's kind of how it happened."
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