South Side chords by Moby

“South Side” oddly enough is my least favorite song on the record. I just don’t think it’s all that interesting. My favorite thing about “South Side” is the subject matter. It’s essentially a song about abject amorality. I love that it’s a happy sing-along pop song about kids that become so inured to violence and become so desensitized that nothing gets through to them. It’s about people who have become so over-exposed to stimuli that nothing matters to them anymore. I like the idea of having subtle, very disturbing lyrics hidden in a happy-friendly pop song. And I also like the fact that no one stopped to listen to the lyrics — which is fine with me. Gwen Stefani came into the studio while I was recording Play. And this was when the first No Doubt record was doing really well. So I couldn’t figure out why she’d want to go into the studio with me. She was a big rock star and I was a has-been. She came into the studio, she recorded the vocals and she did a great job. But my mixing skills are limited. I couldn’t get a mix with her vocals that worked. I tried and I tried. So the first album version didn’t have her vocals on it. I went back to it a year later and handed it off to a friend who was a good mixer, and he was able to actually do a mix with her vocals that worked. So, that’s why there’s two versions”. (c) RollingStone.com [*]1st version: vocals by Moby [*]2nd version: vocals by Moby & Gwen Stefani [*]live version: vocals by Moby & Nelly Furtado Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.