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Samia pulls up to Bryant Park in New York City to shuffle her music library and chat about her upcoming album 'Bloodless,' April 25.  Songs:  "Joy," by Lucinda Williams "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo," by A Tribe Called Quest "C.E.O.," by The Happy Children "Sense," by MAVI "Bovine Excision," by Samia

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00:00I was really obsessed with the this inexplicable phenomenon of cattle mutilations. Do you know about this?

00:05I don't know for some reason made me think about my experience with womanhood

00:13Hey, this is Rolling Stone we're here with Samia. Can you shuffle your playlist for us? Sure thing

00:20Joy listen to Williams. She's the best. I think car wheels on a gravel road is the best heartbreak album

00:26Do you remember how old you were like what you were going through when that album sort of entered your life?

00:30I just been through a bad breakup and we had just started touring

00:32So there was a lot of time for me in the van to wallow and be full of rage

00:39My sixth grade

00:41Poetry teacher showed it to me and it's been one of my favorite songs ever since his mom goes out of town

00:45So he takes a road trip with her car to El Segundo and he leaves his wallet there

00:49So he has to go back and it's just a play-by-play

00:51He literally at one point says I ordered enchiladas and I ate him Ali had the fruit punch

01:00CEO by the happy children

01:02This is one of my favorite bands of all times my one of my best friends Caleb Ray

01:06And his friend Mitchell started this band in the Twin Cities and they're like a Twin Cities staple Caleb wrote a lot of this

01:12Upcoming album with you, right? Yeah, he's worked on all three of my albums and he writes with me and he I can't do anything

01:17without him

01:20Oh sense Mavi one of the greatest lyricists of all time some point in the song

01:25He says what kind of songs you make I make the kind you got a read, baby

01:29I could just listen to him say it over and over again

01:33I remember when I had seen or gotten like the album ahead of time for you

01:36I had read the lyrics before I listen, which I don't know if that's kosher

01:39Like I think you have to with mine. I write in riddles like a bridge troll or a rumpelstiltskin and we love that

01:45Thank you. What song do you think people should be putting on their playlists?

01:48My song bovine excision

01:56I'm curious if you have like a specific line in this song that just gets you every time

02:01I was excited about a line that goes I felt the pea can I eat it?

02:05But it's really been interpreted as I felt the pecan I eat it

02:10Which is disappointing but has happened to me a lot and it's only my fault

02:15I have to admit I also thought that at first naturally and I was like, yum

02:18I felt the pecan I eat the pecan and you also reference both Raymond Carver and Degas in this song both artists in their own

02:25Right. Do you have any specific artist fixations?

02:27They can be authors painters singers right now that you're kind of just inspired by these days contains

02:40I think he's one of the greatest modern writers. This is the year of romance

02:43Perfect with bovine. Tell me a little bit about the story behind that

02:46I was really obsessed with the this inexplicable phenomenon of cattle mutilations

02:52Allegedly farmers since the 70s have been finding their cows dead

02:57Drained of blood with their mouths and genitals

03:00Surgically removed for some reason made me think about my experience with womanhood

03:06Many can relate

03:09Who's your like dream artist to cover any of your songs? I just think it'd be cool to see what FKA twigs

03:15Like a you sexual version of bovine would be crazy pretty unlikely pairing, but I think it would be so cool

03:21Okay, if you're watching this, please

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