I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t get enough of song The Next Messiah off of Jenny Lewis’s new album Acid Tongue. I just keep listening to it. It’s an eight minute song with different sections and a pretty solid groove. So I was interested to read in an A.V. Club interview with Lewis how the song came about:

AVC: That track is interesting in that it’s a medley. Were those just scraps of songs that you put together or was it composed as a whole?

Jenny Lewis: Actually, those were three separate songs that Johnathan and I wrote together. We just played them around the house for six months as different entities, and then we just started talking about stringing them together. I’m a big Barbra Streisand fan, and I think the first time I ever heard a medley was on one of her records. So we just put them together and it was so fun coming up with the transitions, because if you’re slowing down to get to the second part, we had to speed up to get to the outro. It was just totally exhilarating arranging that song and then recording it in the studio, because if one person messed up at the seven-minute mark, can you imagine the dirty looks he or she got from the band?

Listen to The Next Messiah.