In the summer of 2002, I was actually in Las Vegas during the Karate World Championships.
So I remember that.
That was a really big year for me because I'd been training in karate for three years,
yeah, not long, maybe four years.
And I was doing my first World Championships and it was in Las Vegas and I was like "Rawr"
and I was trying to walk through the casinos and everyone was like, "Get out!"
But yeah, I won two golds that year, so it's like a year that I remember as being amazing.
We worked on this for quite a while just the production and getting it right and just making
it kind of sound like the rest of my album.
I just wanted it to get in the same sort of vibe because it was very Ed Sheeran, which
is not a bad thing.
But it's just a bit different to me.
When I first got in the studio together, it was actually Ed on the guitar and that was
what I recorded my vocal to.
And then Steve Mack took it up and produced it into what you hear now.
He's done like some of the biggest songs in the history of our life and he's so cool.
You just go there to the studio and it's just like hanging with your friend or your dad,
depending on what way you look at it.
I'm sure he's gonna hate me for calling him a dad.
Everything he does I feel like is just a bit of genius just coming out of him.
Is anyone's first kiss ever good?
Like if your first kiss is good, you've been practicing on your own hand.
It was just bad.
It was very sloppy.
I think I must have watched the “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera video about 20 hundred
times just to like watch people kiss.
That’s like one of my favorite years ever.
I remember like the years when I was in like musicals and stuff that obviously have like
dates to it so I can look back and be like, “Oh, that's the year I did that.”
But just in general, just being a child, I had like a really carefree childhood and I
was a proper tomboy.
So I just like ran away and like fell over all the time and hurt my knees, and just like
proper childhood memories that I just love.
I just wanted to break the rules, but I guess that's the kind of kid thing to do.
If my mom and dad let me out, I’d stay out ‘til later.
I was quite a naughty child.
I’m so sorry mom.
I still say sorry to my mom and dad now ‘cause I just feel so bad for them having to deal with me.
Some people fall in love and it's like the dream and they stay in love forever.
And when I see old couples walking down the street still holding hands, I'm like “Aw.”
So I'm like a proper hopeless romantic and want that forever and ever.
So I'm hoping it's true for me one day.
I don't know if it was like growing up in musical theater or like watching,
Disney movies or like seeing that pure love connection between two characters that
I just craved so much and yeah, I fell in love with everyone back then.
But now I'm like way more wary.
And I don't trust anyone.
When you're with the right person, they make you feel young and like have so much energy.
That’s the good part of love.
I’ve had a lot of bad.
If I was to go out with my friends, I would try and do something like what we did when
we were younger.
I don't want to just go to a club.
Like sometimes maybe, but most of the time, I want to go to the park and have a picnic
and like lay down everything and make sandwiches and just like relive the old moments that
were so special.
It kind of made it understandable to everyone.
So like if you're our age and you grew up to those songs, you know that their references.
But if you're younger and you don't remember those songs, it still makes sense as a chorus
and that's what I think is so cool about the song.
Well, I thought I was in love so many times before I was actually in love.
This particular person, when I fell in love with them, it kind of like made me give them
a lot of me and then I was left with like half.
And now I think if I was to fall in love, I definitely have learned from that experience,
like I know that I am me and someone else is there, but they're not going to like mold
into me and I'm not going to mold into them.
It's like two separate people and we are complementing each other, rather than becoming an obsessive weirdo.