Draft:I Think Ur a Contra

• "Multi-instrumentalist/producer Rostam Batmangli discussed this contemplative break-up ballad in the band's track-by-track production notes: "This is the first Vampire Weekend song with acoustic guitar. At one point I wanted to rent a Kora to play the parts I was hearing in my head for the end. Even though this song is dark it ends in a place that's celebratory and cathartic. I used an 8-bit keyboard from the '80s to sample my own voice to create a bed of vocals. It ended up like a dirty, shaky Kate Bush, 'This Woman's Work.' The harmonies on this song are not like anything you'd find on our first record. I wanted the bridge to sound Americana.""^{[citation needed]}
• "Bassist Chris Baio told Drowned In Sound: "A lot of this song is played on Rostam's VSS keyboard - you get noises by singing into it and having it map your voice across the keys.""^{[citation needed]}
• "Koenig explained the song to the NME February 16, 2010: "It's a conversation between two people and the way they're using the word 'contra' is to say, 'You're the opposite of me.' You can apply it to politics, culture, religion or personal relationships. We're fighting against the dumbing down of choice.""^{[citation needed]}
• "Koenig sang entirely in falsetto"^{[citation needed]}
• "Or there'll be something as drastic as the album-closing ballad "I Think Ur a Contra," whose dark lyrics linger over a bed of languid, quivering, echoing samples"^[1]
• "The album ends with “Diplomat’s Son” and “I Think Ur a Contra,” its two most musically scattered and lyrically opaque songs."^[2]
• "“Contra” fades to the sound of hand drums and acoustic guitars. On an album marked by ambitious, knotty lyrics, Koenig ends with the lines, “Never pick sides, never choose between two, but I just wanted you, I just wanted you.” Commitment. Surprising, but it looks beautiful on them."^[2]
• "Most rock bands can't avoid comparisons with the Clash when they drop ska or reggae into their sound, as VW do on "Diplomat's Son", a funny little skank that comes curlicued with violins. The sweet, sad closer, "I Think Ur a Contra", contains another Clash allusion, when singer-songwriter Ezra Koenig rhymes "rock'n'roll" with "complete control" (a Clash song)."^[3]

https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/vampire-weekend-33d6bc79.html?songid=53d247c5

Adapted from Contra's liner notes^[4]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S52vjrfo6Go