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Until, that is, a combination of Ronson’s guilt (“I feel like I’ve stolen your hard drive”) and advice from Kevin’s partner prevailed to help him reclaim the track for Currents. The fanboy-turned-close friend had it pegged as one of the collaborations he and Parker initially worked on for 2015’s Uptown Special. So much so, in fact, that Kevin initially gave the song away to someone he thought more adapted to doing the disco-pop thing with it: Mark Ronson.
Originally, 'The Less I Know The Better’ was a song its creator thought would never work on a Tame Impala album. Kevin Parker nearly gave the Hottest Song of the Decade away It’s a juggernaut that’s hit nearly 500 million plays on streaming services and, half a decade after its release, has gone Platinum thanks to renewed popularity on TikTok.
Kevin Parker had flexed his love of chart-baiting hooks before, on anthems like ‘Elephant’ and ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards,’ but ‘The Less I Know The Better’ is far and away Tame Impala’s biggest song. It’s the sound of a supernaturally gifted songwriter, producer, arranger, and instrumentalist working to the peak of his pop instincts. The lyrics have intrigue, romance, catharsis, and a sticky rhyming pattern delivered in a falsetto that makes it fun as hell to sing along to. The production is next-level, arranging glistening synths and scratchy guitars into a kaleidoscopic blend of future RnB and glossy disco. A song you can vibe out to on the dancefloor, with an infectious space-age strut charged by that rarest of anomalies – a killer bassline played on guitar. It’s a gloriously hazy and impossibly catchy tune.