I Feel Fine

During the last stages of recording the forthcoming album "Castaway", as the global pandemic descended, Tashaki Miyaki felt they needed one final track to really tie the record together. “I wrote 'I Feel Fine' at the beginning of Covid-19 unfolding and it felt like it belonged to the record. I said lot of the things my friends were saying to me about their lives, so it felt right to add it”, singer Paige Stark says. “I was inspired by the emotion of the Replacements song 'Unsatisfied' and wanted to write my own ode to dissatisfaction. I always say I'm fine when it's quite the contrary, so I started there and got more and more specific with each verse”.

The trio got together at Joel Jerome’s East Los Angeles studio in the midst of a blistering midsummer heatwave and hammered out the track on a sweltering August afternoon. “We knew this was the finishing touch”, says guitarist Luke Paquin. The remainder of the record was recorded pre-covid at the North Hollywood studio of Grammy wining engineer Cassidy Turbin (Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bat For Lashes).

The video for “I Feel Fine” was shot in East Los Angeles during the pandemic. Stark directed all the videos for the record “to keep as safe as possible, and because it’s something I always wanted to do. With the pandemic it just made sense to keep it super insular”. The video is an homage to her favorite vampire films including "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" and "Only Lovers Left Alive" and what she calls 1950's fashion. “I am imagining the vampires died in the 1950's so they’re still wearing the clothes of their time”. This is the 1st time the band has appeared in one of their videos. “We are all movie lovers so this was a fun way for us to all be in the video. And who doesn’t love a good vampire moment?”.