Santigold and Karen O., “Go”

Here’s a twitchy military march off Santigold’s yet-to-be-titled sophomore album. (I’m on listen four, and it keeps getting better.) The track has a cute backstory, too, which Santi explains in an interview on Jay-Z’s new site, Life+Times.

In an instant in my mind, I heard what the finished song would sound like, and it had Karen on it. So I worked on it a bit and sent it to Karen. I felt all insecure and was like, “You know, if you’re feeling it, if you could come up with something, but if not, it’s cool.” And then I didn’t hear back for a while. So, I sheepishly reached out again, and was like, “Hey, no pressure, if you weren’t feeling it, it’s cool.” And Karen was like, “OMG! I sent it back to you a week ago. I thought you hated what I did so much you didn’t ever want to speak to me again.” I told her I never got it, and we agreed that being an artist was insane and we laughed at our psycho- insecurity, and were both psyched on what she called our “rad track.”

Famous ladies get nervous too!