While I cannot pinpoint a single thing about this track that doesn't work, I can identify several that do: The drums kicking in just shy of the one-minute mark. Hell, I'm probably going to be producing tears to this song for the rest of my life. Larocca: The first time I heard "Anywhere With You," I cried. Spiritually, this song creates the most powerful sensation of release and raw emotion in Rogers' catalog, rivaled only by "Back In My Body." It steadily builds momentum, just like the process of throwing your bags into a car and speeding down the highway until the ultimate moment of slamming-down-on-the-gas-pedal catharsis: "All I've ever wanted is to make something fucking last." Personally, it feels like an attack because I went to high school in Connecticut and spent a lot of time cruising down the I-95 with my then-boyfriend, thinking, "I'll go anywhere with you." Sonically, it blends a '90s grunge-girl vibe with early-aughts arena rock and the atmospheric oh oh oh's of Taylor Swift's "1989." Thematically, it reminds me of some of my favorite songs of all time - namely "If It's the Beaches" by the Avett Brothers and "Ready to Start" by Arcade Fire.
"Anywhere With You" works on every level. "Anywhere With You" is the fourth track on "Surrender."Īhlgrim: If I hadn't just spent the past three months becoming emotionally attached to "That's Where I Am" (a bond solidified when it made me cry during Rogers' golden-hour set at Coachella), this would easily be my favorite song on "Surrender." (Give me three more months and it very well may take that crown.) Sometimes surrendering to your most carnal impulses is exactly what you need. It's about finally giving into your desires with reckless abandon. That really is what "Want Want" is all about - it's rebellious, seductive, lively, guiltless, human. As a sensual assertion that says, 'I'm alive.'" Larocca: While describing "Want Want" to her Instagram followers, Rogers wrote, "These days I see feral joy as an act of rebellion. By the end of the song, when she demands, "If you got another hour I want all of it," you can't help but hand it over. But Rogers communicates her own desire so well that you feel it in your teeth, too. In less capable hands, this might come off as greedy or entitled. The repetition of the titular word really drives this point home, as if Rogers is an impatient kid in a candy store.
It writhes and wriggles, delighting in its own hunger. "Want Want" was released as the second single on June 1, 2022.Īhlgrim: "Want Want" is the musical embodiment of passion. On the bridge, you can hear Rogers take an audible breath between "you kept me in" and "the dark." On a more polished track, these gasps for air would be edited out - but keeping it in adds to the raw, untamed energy that pulsates throughout "Surrender." Larocca: You know you're in for a ride when the very first song on an album gives you full-body chills. In other words: "I could go for miles / Gave me a reason / Now I'm in overdrive." In many ways, those two titles are treated as synonyms throughout the tracklist: Rogers' vision of surrender is finding meaning in the mundane, submitting to the unknowable energy that binds us, and allowing her emotions to churn and frolic unchecked, even if they're painful. "Overdrive" is the perfect opening track for "Surrender."
"Overdrive" is the opening track on "Surrender."Īhlgrim: Rogers has said that when she wrote "Overdrive" with Kid Harpoon, the lyrics came "pouring out" and she "knew immediately it would be the opening track." This is important to note because her instinct was correct.