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Sonically, Lorde and Stack sought what she calls a “primal” energy in the music; she was constantly pushing to peel back more layers of the sound.

The orange sauce — almost candy-sweet with a citrus tang — is cooked with real orange peels and dried Szechuan peppers.

In a 2022 episode of the podcast “Your Weirdest Fears,” Northwestern University professor David Tolchinsky peeled the transgressive nature of eyeball horror down to a basic dread of annihilation.

As the tar was peeled away, flesh came off in strips.

"When you peel back the layers of the onion, it's clear that we have a very bifurcated consumer," he said.