CMAT has released her collaboration with John Grant from the forthcoming album CrazyMad, For Me, out via AWAL Recordings on October 13th.
Following on from recent singles ‘Have Fun!’ and ‘Whatever’s Inconvenient’, ‘Where Are Your Kids Tonight’ is a duet from the pairing, which started when CMAT says she has realised “I had turned into my mother.”
“It’s kind of inspired by this image I had of entering a waterfall-like portal from an Irish kids’ show called ‘Foreign Exchange’ where I’m looking at 1988 and 2023 at the exact same time every time I look at myself in the mirror.
To quote a TikTok comment I saw recently: ‘The human experience is absolutely fucking wild.’”
John Grant was top of the CMAT’s wish list for the song…
“I always knew this song was going to be a duet, and when I was writing it I always said to myself, ‘It would be so good if we could get someone like John Grant on this’, because a) his body of lyrics reflects my own life and experience more closely than anyone else working today b) I never thought we would get him.
But I got him! And he is so sweet. His performance really adds the layer of profundity that I was looking for to carry off the two-ages-staring-at-each-other angle. Love him so much.”
Where Are Your Kids Tonight? was recorded, produced and mixed by Matias Tellez at his studio in Bergen, Norway, with John recording his vocals at his studio in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The video is an homage to the video for Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson’s ‘I Know Him So Well’, “only with bigger hair and a smaller budget.”
