New Song : Bon Iver : Babys (Live) - My Old Kentucky Blog

Bon Iver performing a new, unreleased song called Babys at the Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana the night before last. Stay tuned for the rest of our interview with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, but here's a brief snippet about the new song...

MOKB : You played two new songs tonight. I caught that Blood Bank was the title of the first one. What was the second one called?

Vernon : Babys. It's specifically spelled B-A-B-Y-S, but with no apostrophe. It's grammatically incorrect but it has its own meaning.

MOKB : What is its meaning, if you don't mind me asking?

Vernon : It's about how - you know how, in the summer, you always wanna make out and kiss and everything? It's about how many, many people are born in the spring because people hook up and mom's and dad's meet in the summertime. You call your girlfriend "baby" or something - I don't because I don't have that much courage - but then there's little "babies" so they're kinda both and so if you do it B-A-B-I-E-S, that's just babies, and if you do it B-A-B-Y-'-S, that's like ownership and that's not it either, so it's just Babys.

Bon Iver : Babys live at the Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, IN : 8/12