Gira said this in an interview: “Jarboe’s all over the place, though. She’s actually on that song ‘The Beautiful Days’, that little girl singing? That’s her at two or something.“ The inclusion of the sample of a two-year-old girl singing might be for the sake of juxtaposing childhood innocence and chastity with something as sexual and demoralizing, perhaps disturbing, as phone sex.

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