Zombies

“Zombies” details how others around you can be vultures and eat off your success. The zombies are mindless creatures trying to take what you have, namely, a brain that can think for itself.

Kari Faux adds some vocals—she and Childish worked together before on “No Small Talk”.

The song was performed live at the Pharos Experience in early September 2016.

In an interview with Billboard, Kari spoke about how she got involved with the record, saying:

"We were staying in this house that he made the album in. I wasn’t living in L.A. anymore; I had moved back to Little Rock. Whenever I would come out to L.A., though, I would stay at the house. It was just basically a creative house he called The Factory. They were working on the TV show and the album there. I was finishing up my album there, and Malik was starting on his album there. He basically was just like, “Oh, come listen to this, listen to that',‘ or I would show him stuff. I remember him saying, "Yeah, I want to use your voice for something.” I was like, “OK, cool.” One day, I went in there with Ludwig and they were working on “Zombies.” was like, “Hey, I want you to say this,” and I was like, “All right, cool.” He kind of directed me on how to say it: whisper and sound really creepy. So I did it and he was like, “Yep, that’s very dope, I like it.” Then he just kept it."