How an Inside Joke Inspired by “That Thing You Do!” Helped Haim Name Their New Album “I Quit”

Haim reveals really their medium title came from a classical movie from their childhood. 

On Thursday, May 29, Este, Danielle and Alana Haim appeared connected nan Sidetracked podcast to chat astir their upcoming album, I quit, which drops connected June 20.

At nan commencement of nan episode, big Nick Grimshaw told nan sister trio really overmuch he loves nan medium title, and Este, 39, quickly asked, “We told you nan communicative down it?” 

Grimshaw confirmed he wasn’t alert of nan title’s origins, and Alana, 33, began to explicate its relationship to nan 1996 film, That Thing You Do! “There's this film, it’s called That Thing You Do!, and it's astir a one-hit wonderment set successful nan 1960s,” she began. “It was a movie that we each 3 very overmuch connected connected arsenic very young children.”

The musical-drama follows nan emergence of nan Wonders, a small-time set from Erie, Pennsylvania, who are launched to superstardom aft winning a section talent contest. The group yet splinters nether nan pressures of fame, ego, jealousy, and quickie Reno weddings, but they time off down nan bequest of nan movie’s titular opus — a sparkling popular gem that group nan charts connected occurrence successful nan summertime of 1964. 

As Alana continued, she explained really successful 1 of nan last scenes, nan Wonders’ lead vocalist Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), is instructed by their manager, Amos White (Tom Hanks), to travel up pinch a 2nd azygous that is “peppy and snappy.”

“And Jimmy wants to grounds for illustration a brooding, sad song. And he goes, ‘Peppy and snappy, okay?’ And he gets connected nan mic and he goes, ‘I quit, I quit, I quit, I quit, Mr. White.'" Alana sang arsenic she and Este snapped together.  

“And truthful increasing up, whenever we would have, like, cheque a mic, we would ever go, like, 'I quit.'"

But arsenic she continued, she revealed that arsenic they were creating nan album, each caller track, they realized, "we were quitting thing that made america consciousness better."

“One day, we're like, ‘Should we negociate our album? I quit,’ ” she said, earlier noting she felt for illustration they fell into a communal songwriting believe erstwhile musicians’ subconscious are really penning nan music.

“Like, months aft we were like, ‘Oh, I was like, penning this, but I didn't understand it until I had clip to really deliberation astir it,’ ” she said. “It's conscionable for illustration watercourse of consciousness.” 

“I deliberation that was what really happened,” she said. “Our subconscious was going for it, and our bodies caught up.”

Ahead of releasing their first medium successful 5 years, Haim has dropped 3 singles, "Relationships," “Down to beryllium wrong,” and “Everybody’s trying to fig maine out.” On Friday, May 30, they merchandise their 4th single, “Take maine back.”

During their speech connected Sidetracked, Alana noted that while creating nan album, “It was nan first time, since fundamentally we were each successful that precocious schoolhouse era, that we were each single.” 

“I deliberation it really brought up this nostalgic [feeling] for that clip of erstwhile nan past clip we were single, erstwhile I was for illustration 14, 15, 16. It's conscionable been astonishing to benignant of for illustration spell backmost and relive those times, [and] get backmost into it.”

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I quit will beryllium disposable connected Friday, June 20.